What have you searched for that was right there???

JD Seller

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Not wanting to hi-jack Brokenwrench's post below. I find I "lose" things a lot more as I get older.

1) I only need glasses to see real fine print or to weld. I often search for my glasses when they are on the top of my hat. This is while I am wearing that hat. LOL

2) I bought a used tool box last year. So I reorganized my tools in to one more tool box. There are some of them I still can't find.

3) The king of them all!!! I find myself "looking" for a tool/wrench/part when I have it in my HAND!!!! I walked around the shop this morning looking for a spring I had brought home for the Gator. I had picked it up when I walked into the shop for the pliers to install it. I put the spring into my left hand with the pliers so I could close the tool box. I walked around the shop twice and searched the truck once before I happened to look at my hand with the pliers and the SPRING in my left hand!!!!!!

P.S. If any of you find a Cobra 500 watt 12 volt to 110 volt converter let me know. I used mine two weeks ago to keep my cordless batteries charged while I did some pasture gate work. I can't find where I put the darn thing. I even went and walked the pasture thinking I had dropped it of the truck out there.
 
Don't know the name of that left hand quandrum but I have it too. Wrenches and parts are bad enough but I'll get out my keys, grab a soft drink and then search the house for the keys that were put in my left hand so I could grab a soda. Kind of embarrassing when someone says "what's that in your hand".
 
I'm not very old 35 and I am constantly losing things John Deere and case both love me because I order parts ams and some of em always and up vanishing into thin air
 
A roll of teflon tape. Used it 2 days ago then 15 mins later grabbed another roll cause I couldn't find it. Found it tonight when I grabbed a propane tank for little space heater (ended up being empty) sitting on top of tank. Walked passed it at least 20 times while looking for it.
 
Ive looked for something on a somewhat cluttered workbench and didn't see it, walked to the other bench and then walked back and it was right on top.
 
Stopped for gas. pumped went to get back in the car and couldn't find my keys. Looked everywhere. My girlfriend was following me and came to help me look. Guy next to me say " hey uhhh, you might want to check in your ignition." He saw them through the window. I felt real smart after that.
 
Full story below, but I spent nearly 20 minutes looking for my cell phone, while I was talking on it.
 
Wait until you get to be my age. But sometimes I think I'm not any worse than I was when I was in high school. Mom would give me a list; I would go to town and completely forget to even look at the list. The only difference now is it is my wife that asks "where are the things that were on the list that I gave you".

Couldn't find my pop riveter last week - only took me 2 days to find it in the tool cabinet about the 3rd time I looked in there.
 
If not a daily occurance, it happens every time I go in the shop to do anything! I'm the opposite of you, I wear glasses all the time, but have to take them off when welding(if I tip my head back far enough to see thru the bi-focals, I can't see what I'm welding). I always try to lay them far enough away that they won't get any slag from chipping on them. Spend more time looking for my glasses than welding. I'm always looking for the tool I just had a minute ago. Worst was working on the tractor, laid a wrench down, turned around and the wrench was gone. Looked for it for at least a 1/2 hour, finally gave up and got a different wrench and finished the job. A week later I found it laying in plain sight right where I thought it should be. Gotta be the gremlins! I don't see it getting any better anytime soon. Chris
 
Strange truck showed up parked in the emplement shed. After walking by it 2 or 3 days,went in and asked the admerial if she knew who parked that #*%&@# truck in my shed. She answered "your grandson after he washed it when finished hauling firewood for me Tuesday". I planned on washing it but was too busy the last couple of years.
 
Agree with you that gremlins love to torment us by hiding things in plain sight. It couldn't be me who misplaces all the stuff around here!! I am also convinced they are multiplying because more and more things are going missing only to magically reappear where I looked a few minutes before!!
 
Mom and Dad and I were going out to eat, I was going to drive their car, looked and looked and LOOKED for the car keys.... I had them in my left hand.
Worked in shop, and couldn't find shop rag, and I KNEW I just had it.... looked and looked and LOOKED, finally gave up, went in for lunch, went to bathroom, looked in mirror, and it was laying on my left shoulder where I always keep it.
 
Well, an hour ago I found my glasses sitting on my toolbox here at the shop.

I only spent about 45 minutes at home last night looking for them.

I make many trips a week into our parts room to grab something, only to forget what it was I came to get. I either have to stand there a minute and think, or turn around and head back to the bench. Seems like once I make the trip back across the shop it jogs my memory. BW
 
I looked for a 1/4" ratchet that I later found in my pocket. Often lose my cup and have to backtrack to find it. Lots of things "put away so I could find them" remain lost.

Larry
 
Searching for that 9/16 end wrench and not finding it, then discovering it in my back pocket when I take my jeans off that evening.
 
JD I have 3 of those 12V to 110V inverters because I lose them till I clean out the car then put the ones I find in the house, then buy new because need it now and cant find them in the car. LOL
Ypop
 
Lost my pickup keys last Wednesday, have spent since then walking my whole 2 acres looking for them, getting ready to go to town this morn guess what right where they are kept "pants pocket"
 
After reading all the posts about this, I think I could have been the author of any or all of them. We should start a club, but probably couldn't find the meeting place.
 
It was bad enough when I was the only one using the tools. Now that Jeff is farming, neither one of us can remember where we left the tools last!
 
I routinely lose my glasses. Can't find a tool even if it is just laying in the top tray of the box camouflaged by the other tools.

But by far the worst thing I can come up with is those items that are so important that I put them in "a safe place" where "I will be sure to remember them".

Some of those are so lost they may NEVER turn up.
 
i have found several things while looking for something else. the trick is to take it and put it where you can find it next time.
 
I plugged in a small heater in the kitchen a couple of weeks ago to keep the chill off (had to use two cords due to where the electric socket was located). Knew I had gotten a twenty five foot, twelve gauge extension cord for it last winter because the plug had gotten to hot on one cord and melted the end of the cord I was using. I had coiled them up early this summer and put the heavy cord up so I could find it and threw the lighter cord in the trash. Well, when I got the cords out of the bedroom, I found one heavy short one and one longer light one. Figured they would work but knew I had put up the twenty five foot one somewhere. Plugged them in and forgot about checking the plug to see if it was hot. Went in the other morning after it had gotten real cold and was snowing and happened to feel the plug. It was too hot to touch and had melted the end plug again. I tore every room in the house apart four different times looking for the heavier cord. Even went and looked in the shop twice. Done the chores and went six miles into CO OP to get another new cord. I told myself on the way in, that as soon as I got back with the new cord, I would find the old one. Got back about thirty minutes later and got the new cord plugged into the heater. Walked thru the door to the bedroom to put the package the cord came in, on a shelf and as I stepped across the threshold I turned my head to the right and there on top of some boxes that were stacked by the wall, at eye level, was the old cord all nicely coiled up and waiting to be plugged in. Oh, well, now I got two twelve gauge cords.
 
I have found that the surest way to never find something when you need it is to put it where you just KNOW you will be able to find it later. I have "lost" so many things that way. I know I will need it later, so I put it in a "special" place where I just KNOW I will be able to find it later. So far, that theory has a lot of holes in it.........
 
done that too ,,btw ,,My ash shovel showed up in the fireplace,, apparently my sara used it to clean the hearth tossed everthing and it into a cardboard box , next morning I grabbed the box and got the firplace burning ,,I am bad about tools, . I prefer workin near the barn under shade trees ,, a lot of my tools spend the summer there in a makeshift wood spool .., worx well ,since I am the only wrench puller here .. I am not strict about everthing in its place , but I never do I leave tools on a tailgate or fender ,usually have 3 places for tools , because I have 4 places that I make repairs ,, and it seems I am always playin catchup goin from one problem to the next ,, I swear without a battery charger or air compresser , this place would have to give up ,,.always keep electric cords and hoses out from harms way of geetin run over , I make it a practice to pik up stuff along the way that needs to go back into its spot ,, only later to go back and get it again,, lol
 
Step Son inlaw came to use our pickup truck for a few days, So I took out my handicap plackerd and my new driving gloves. When he came back I searched the place for three days,couldn't find either one. All of a sudden I remembered the gloves, If I find the gloves I'll find the plackerd! Me and the wife looked and finally found them (After walking past them a dozen times) Dumb,Dumb and Dumber !!! It must be an AGE thing, just gotta be.....Jim
 
Have lost a couple of nail bars. At job site , lay the bar on the step bumper, drive down the road , bar never to be seen again. I know there is one somewhere between Cleveland and Mansfield along I-71.
 
Occasionally, I'll put my keys in a pocket other than my usual left front pocket. Unless I make a conscious effort to remember that I've done that, three minutes later, I'll feel for the keys in their usual spot... and, upon not finding them there, I'll start to panic...

I'm still looking for a bucket of hammers in the shop. How does a bucket of hammers disappear...? Gremlins?
 
Early this summer I bought a Lawn Edger to install my invisible dog fence. Bought it right (on sale) but have no more use for it. I told my son I'd give it to him, and bring it to Kansas City when I come down for Thanksgiving. I got the owners manual out 2 weeks ago so I'd remember to take it along. I started looking for it on Monday morning, and did finally find it today. I walked past it at least a dozen times in the process. If it had teeth it would have bitten me.
 
Yup. BTDT. I have a set of keys just for the farm.

About three weeks ago, went to get them to open the gate and they weren't in the pocket of my purse where I keep all my keys.

Ok. Must have set them down in the house or missed and put them in one of the other pockets in my purse.

Looked all over the house. No keys. Dumped my purse twice. No keys.

Started checking the pockets of my jeans. No keys.

Gave up and started putting together another set.

Then happened to put on my pink blazer and felt something in the pocket. Yup, there were the keys.
 
In my younger days, I never needed to make a grocery list. Now, not only do I have to remember to put the list in my purse, but if its not on the list, it doesn't get bought.
 
My pocket knife has been missing for 2 days . I did not loose it I just cant find it !
 
Good news Worldpower,I found your bucket of hammers working down there at the gubbmint offices last Thursday. I asked how they landed the job,said a box of rocks turned them on.
 
In addition to the gremlins, try having two adult sons. When after a week I can't find something that I knew exactly where it was, I call the boys, ( one works in the county maintenance shop, and the other owns a print shop) and ask if they borrowed it. both say nope haven't seen it. A week later when I visit one or both, there it is at their place of work. Bought a complete set of Craftsman tools in 1969, and was proud to have never lost one until the boys got to be about 12 or 13, then they started to disappear. Still can't find any 3/4 inch sockets. Should have about 25 of them....
 


Reading all these posts makes me feel normal, like I fit right in with everyone. I walk down to the shop to get something and can't remember what I was after. Screw around doing other stuff figuring I'll remember, don't then do something else. Go to the house to eat then remember what I went for i the morning. Oh well always another day.
 
Sunglasses... ALL THE TIME!

I'll be looking around the car, digging through my purse...

Teen daughter will say, "What are you looking for?"

I say, "My darn sunglasses."

She replies, "Mom, they're on your face."
LOL

They clip on to my glass frame and are light brown tint, so I can have them on and not even realize it.
 

Lots of times, but something recent... bought a nice spark tester and never got a chance to use it as it wouldn't fit where I needed it to. have to rig up an old plug wire to reach the plugs. Recently couldn't find it, looked all over, not where I thought it would be. Dang, I lost it. Just last night was fumbling around the coat pockets, pulled the gloves out, pulled ear muffs out and there was still a bulge. Hmmm, what's that? Yep, it was the spark tester, buried deep in the Carhart coat pocket.
 
I listen to John Tesh sometimes on the radio. I heard an article last week that explained it to me anyway. Fat people are more forgetful as well as slower in moving. I can get that. I go walking with friends and Im a walker all the time and I cant keep up with any of those skinny sonofaguns. LOL Now where is my keys so I can get into the booze cabinet.
 
You mean I'm not alone... um... Not yes but "HELL YES!!!"
'Sometimers' creeps along like the sound of a clock with the weight of the oceans.
 
(quoted from post at 23:05:18 11/19/14)

Reading all these posts makes me feel normal, like I fit right in with everyone. I walk down to the shop to get something and can't remember what I was after. Screw around doing other stuff figuring I'll remember, don't then do something else. Go to the house to eat then remember what I went for i the morning. Oh well always another day.

That is what's called "Searching for the here after" Now what did I come here after!
 

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