I just had to laugh.

When I was rushing to the finish line to get the coupe done and registered to qualify before the new rules came into effect, I put the door and trunk keys "somewhere".. You know, In a "safe place"!! :eek::eek::eek:

Well, it has taken almost 7 years, but, I found them tonite! :rolleyes::D:3dSMILE:

And I wasn't even looking for them! :LOL::LOL::LOL: Setting right where I left them. In the top of my tool chest! Where I've checked so many times before!!!:mad::mad::confused::HMMM:

Shame is that I had already bought replacement door handles!:mad::CRY::CRY:

You're not alone in that mate!
A month or three ago I lost my sledge hammer.
I looked for it everywhere I could think of for quite some considerable time.
I was grizzling about it one evening to the boss: "Some rotten mongrel must've pinched it; but who would want to pinch a sledge hammer? Sledge hammers mean work and lazy thieves don't like work."
"Where is it supposed to be?" She asked.
So I told her that I usually keep it in a cupboard behind the motorbike along with all my other hammers.
So that's where She went to look the next day.


And found it.


I'm still living that down.
sigh.

As I get older it seems that I spend a lot of time looking for things that I was sure I knew where they were. Well, I guess you could say that at least you did find them!

Well. At least I have company in this one. LOL.

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Well. At least I have company in this one. LOL.

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You have company, PLUS a spare set of door handles that only need the lock cylinders swapped!

Why is it that the bride takes so much pleasure in our "temporarily" misplacing things like this? The best (admittedly weak) retort I have is I claim I'm having a blonde moment (yes, she's blonde).

Maybe she could tell me where my Knipes channel lock pliers got to. I was using them at the welding table and I haven't seen them since. :(

I own 5 tape measures, and there are plenty of times when I can’t find a single one of them without a search.

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I own 5 tape measures, and there are plenty of times when I can’t find a single one of them without a search.

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Yup.. I've got two in the garage, one in the shed, one in a drawer by the phone, one in e console of my car, one in my upper left desk drawer and I'll be darned if from time-to-time every one of them is "someplace else". Joanie comes in and immediately has several of them and tells me, "They were right where you left them....."

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I own 5 tape measures, and there are plenty of times when I can’t find a single one of them without a search.

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I have been finding the Harbor Freight coupons for free 25 ft tapes in various magazines and have several of them now. I have them laying everywhere and still seem to have trouble locating one! They're decent tapes BTW.

Tape measures?
Don't even start me on tape measures!

I own about twenty, most of them 6mtr (21ft).
They live in their own pigeonhole in a steel cabinet.
Those things have a mind of their own.
I can be sitting on a crate preparing to weld something. put my tape measure down, run a weld. go to pick the tape up again...and the bloody thing has vanished.
I haven't moved from where I had it last!
How do they do that?
During the winter months when I've done all the 'inside' work I can, and it's too wet to work outside, I go through my entire workshop and return them all to where they belong.

There is a well established fact that there is a small black hole under every workbench in the world!

And I've heard stories that gremlins like to move items once you put them down...

One of these MUST be true! 8-)

A black hole you say. That explains a few things

Well, I set up secret camera in the shop and lo and behold.....

happened to me plenty of times man :LOL: No worries, that's pretty normal!

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There is a well established fact that there is a small black hole under every workbench in the world!

And I've heard stories that gremlins like to move items once you put them down...

One of these MUST be true! 8-)

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I think those gremlins live in the black holes and like to play jokes on us. They take our stuff into the black holes and then toss some of it back through every now and then just to keep us confused.

Case in point. I "misplaced" my good older SK 1/4" drive ratchet. I have a couple of newer Craftsmans in that size, but the old SK just works better. It's been MIA for several months now and low and behold, I'm sweeping up a couple of days ago and there it is. It was under the corner of my parts washer and I've been working 4 feet from it all this time. It wasn't even hard to see!

Its hell when your stomach blocks the view of the floor---------------

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You may be right about that, but I didn't think I was THAT fat! I can still see most of my feet.

I have a couple of red headed 2 legged gremlins that make things disappear and reappear. Scratch that. 2 red headed ones and 1 light brown headed one. A few weeks ago I was building mama a new dining room table. I was working outside the garage to finish the frame before a birthday party we were having that afternoon. I fit a tube and went to grab my helmet off the gas bottle to tack it in place. It was gone. I looked for a good bit when I realized it literally grew legs. Sure enough, I found Izzy running around in the neighbors yard chasing some other kids with my welding helmet on. :LOL: Good thing I wasn't in a hurry or anything. :LOL:

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happened to me plenty of times man :LOL: No worries, that's pretty normal!

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Yeas but 7 YEARS! LOL..

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I think those gremlins live in the black holes and like to play jokes on us. They take our stuff into the black holes and then toss some of it back through every now and then just to keep us confused.

Case in point. I "misplaced" my good older SK 1/4" drive ratchet. . It wasn't even hard to see!

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I know that one exactly! Over the winter I was using my 1/4" set and while cleaning up - the breaker bar and 6" extension are gone! Snap-on, not the cheap craftsman stuff either! It's just "GONE" 8-(

Lots of stuff has gone into that black hole, only to be regurgitated sometime after I have gone and bought a replacement for it.

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Lots of stuff has gone into that black hole, only to be regurgitated sometime after I have gone and bought a replacement for it.

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Yeah, like all those tape measures!! LOL