Has Anyone Seen This Shirt?
Jun 24th 2008
Julia LondonOn Writing!
I was reading about a haunted house here in Texas the other day. Its just a regular old ranch house (I always think of haunted houses as being Victorian), but the inhabitants swear it is haunted. They say things disappear all the time, or are moved.
Really? Haunted? Then my house must be haunted. I think it is haunted by a laundry elf with a kitchen accomplice. Seriously, in the last two weeks, we have searched high and low for Jack London’s favorite golf shirt. It is nowhere to be found. It’s not in any closet, or trash can, or stuck in between folded towels or sheets. I remember it from the laundry, I remember hanging it up (why can’t I have a clothes elf to hang stuff up?). But we cannot find it.
Privately, I thought Jack had lost his mind (again), but the next thing to disappear was a pair of really expensive running socks that some store clerk with a quota talked me into buying. I just wore them last week! I put them in the laundry, I can remember putting them in the laundry. Now I cannot find those ridiculously expensive socks anywhere. Anywhere!
And again, yesterday, the DVD remote turned up missing, just as we were settling in to watch the first season of the Sopranos. You would think we’d lost a million dollars. Couch cushions were tossed, furniture moved, baskets and trucks filled with legos thoroughly searched, and we could not find it. Moreover, Jack London and I discovered that we cannot operate a DVD player without a remote. We are really that stupid. A lot of things were said about that remote that cannot be repeated here, and lots of fingers pointed at different house inhabitants, including old Hugo, the dog. But seriously, what could happen to a perfectly good remote?
Lest you be thinking these things are buried under mountains of stuff, let me assure you that my house is properly picked up and orderly. We don’t have mounds of stuff. Unless you count dog hair. We have looked everywhere and cannot find these items. We have spent countless fifteen minute segments tossing out the theory du jour of what happened. But they are gone.
What in your house has grown legs and walked off? Have you ever found a remote in your freezer (I did once)? What is the most bizarre thing you’ve ever lost?
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63 Responses to “Has Anyone Seen This Shirt?”
Deborah on 24 Jun 2008 at 3:15 am #
Good morning Goddesses!
Back in work today after being off sick with a nasty stomach bug…
I once lost a pair of sunglasses, searched the whole house for what felt like an hour, only to discover them on the patio table (where I’d left then about 5 minutes previously) Oh the shame….
Kathy/C on 24 Jun 2008 at 4:26 am #
I’d have these moments of braindeadness and walk around my apt holding something, WHILE I WAS LOOKING FOR IT!!!
Socks and underwear mysteriously disappear. the dryer gnome got them, I swear!
Four of us use the house’s pay washer. sometimes we’ll find our lost undies or socks hanging on the hook next to the washer. our poor landlord Jim has to deal with 3 women’s undies! hahaha!
It all evens out, as I sewed a rip in his car cover yesterday.
When I was still their nanny, my girlies and I use to go to the grands’ house and pool around. (home of the Survivor challenge this weekend)
We were packed up to go and I couldn’t find the van keys. Often I would stay the night with them there and give the parents a break- and me a nice mini vaca lounge by the pool. We had to go back home this night, so the search was on. I had lost the keys the week before, so I thought it was really suspicious that it happened yet again, when I knew they were in my purse. con’t
Kathy/C on 24 Jun 2008 at 4:33 am #
David/Grampie wa frantically searching through the house while I calmly sat and waited. He got annoyed and told me to start looking. I said very quietly that one of girls had hid them and they would be “discovered” soon enough. don’t panic. He wasn’t impressed. but..a few mins later, Laura had “found” them under the couch- the one I had flipped over on it’s back in my search.
She had found the set the first time they went legitemately missing.
The keys went missing yet another time that summer during a play visit to my sisters.
I think she like the praise the first time or decided she didn’t want to leave yet. I got mad and yelled the final time they went missing.
I never did ask her why she did it.
I’m paying a hairdresser housecall tomorrow for her elementary school prom hair do. I might ask now that she is much older.
Michelle B. on 24 Jun 2008 at 7:11 am #
We get the chance to reorganize about every two years when the Air Force moves us. We lose things on a move only to find them on the next move. My Mom wrote me a poem on my 30th birthday that spanned my life, very special and the only copy. I can’t find it since we were evacuated from a volcano in the Philippines. I keep thinking one of these moves it will show up.
Karen Hawkins on 24 Jun 2008 at 7:16 am #
Julia, I want a house elf! Not one that hides things, but one to operate my DVD. Even with the remote, it can be tricky.
Btw, I once found my remote in a laundry basket on the washer. Thank goodness I found it BEFORE it got washed.
My guy says I’ve left a trail of cheap sunglasses from here to Europe and back. And it’s sadly true. I HAVE to have sunglasses — my eyes hurt when they’re in the sun. But I can’t seem to keep a pair, so I have to buy another when I lose one. Sometimes the old one will turn up, and then I’ll have a spare pair, but usually, they’re just gone. He, meanwhile, keeps his Oakley Aviators in pristine condition and has the same glasses for years.
I can’t even IMAGINE that.
Ellen on 24 Jun 2008 at 7:27 am #
Does losing one’s mind count?
Margaret Garland on 24 Jun 2008 at 7:44 am #
Do we share a mind, Ellen? I was thinking the very same thing!
Julia, your house isn’t haunted. I know this from experience. Like my DD you have a Black Hole. Things disappear into it on a regular basis. Never to be seen again. Sometimes they are sucked right out of your hand as you walk in the door. Remember that. BLACK HOLE!
The only thing that can help is to say the St. Anthony Prayer. I’m not a praying person nor particularly religious. Yet, the prayer works more often than not. A mystery.
I don’t tend to lose things that I can’t remember where they were last. I just have to remember where that last was.
Last week, I found my cell phone in Bella the Wonder Dog’s treasure trove. She collects things like shoes, socks, cardboard (loves the toile paper empties) and the cell phone when I don’t answer it right away. I don’t know how many times I’ve caught her with the thing in her mouth while it merrily plays “Down at the Twist & Shout”.
Freedom Writer on 24 Jun 2008 at 7:44 am #
Right now the wrist rest for my computer keyboard is missing, although I believe that has to do more with a 2 1/2 year old imp rather than a ghost. I am sure we will find it.
About 21 years ago I had a rather large set of key chains disappear, but I also think that a 2 1/2 year old imp had something to do with that. We think that imp (Mother of current 2 1/2 year old imp) threw the whole thing into the garbage at gma & gpa’s house.
Also about 20 years ago my dad’s prescription sunglasses disappear at my gma’s house. A search went on for a month until gma’ got out the electric fry pan to make eggs one Sunday morning, and there were the sunglasses. I think the above imp was also the cause of that disappearance as well.
No haunting here, but I have to do something about those imps.
Kim on 24 Jun 2008 at 8:11 am #
Oh, Julia, I am just rolling here. I can just imagine the things that were said over that lost remote. LOL. Were many of them of the four-letter persuasion?
Once I lost my pajamas for about a month. I found them folded and in one of my t-shirt drawers.
About 6 weeks ago, the dh and I went to Wal-mart for a stock up visit. Paper towels, tp, etc. I bought a two pack of Dawn dish detergent. Wouldn’t you know that stupid thing went missing? I tore this house apart looking for it. Doubted my own sanity that I even bought it. My DH found it last night in the trunk of the car, under the carpet that covers the spare tire. UGH!
Last week I lost my post office box key. Blamed my son and told him he was paying the deposit on a new one. Finally found it on our spare key chain. LOL
Margaret Garland on 24 Jun 2008 at 8:11 am #
Well, if the imp only operates once every 20 years or so, Free, you don’t need to worry about the next invasion. You’ll be too old to remember that you lost something. Sort of where I am right now. Old Timer’s Disease. Sometimes a blessing, sometimes a curse.
Kim on 24 Jun 2008 at 8:12 am #
KarenH–I’m right there with you on sunglasses. Those and gloves. I buy them and lose them immediately.
cail on 24 Jun 2008 at 8:18 am #
at any given time i own close to 6 pairs of sunglasses. they break, they get forgotten places, you name it.
currently the dryer has been eating our socks. i don’t usually have this problem, but it seems that i have a stack of lonely socks in my bedroom, with no partners in sight. i really should stop buying colored socks and just get some good ol’ white ones so they all make pairs.
remotes also go missing. as do battery packs.
Sabrina Jeffries on 24 Jun 2008 at 8:39 am #
What DOESN’T go missing in my house? Take one ADD author, add one often befuddled husband and a nonverbal autistic teen, and it’s a recipe for disaster. My husband loses stuff constantly. So do I. We compensate for each other MOST of the time. Then there’s Nick, who puts away whatever is in his laundry basket, even if our clothes get mixed in (hey, if we’re stupid enough to put it in his basket, it’s going in his room). He hangs up all his shirts, so one day I found several of my husband’s t-shirts hung very nicely on hangers in Nick’s closet. I just stood there and laughed.
I have found my socks in my husband’s dresser drawers, my son’s dresser, behind the washer, inside my own shirts (static cling). I never throw away a single sock, since its mate is sure to show up eventually.
Oh, and once in grad school, I dropped an expensive ring in my kitchen. It bounced on the floor and was NEVER SEEN AGAIN. We took that kitchen apart, even moved the appliances. Gone forever. Sigh.
Lisa H on 24 Jun 2008 at 8:40 am #
Julia, I think you do have an elf…an adorable little ward of the state as you call him.
Don’t be surprised if your stuff turns up in an unusual place (like the back of your closet where my little guy hid my girlfriend’s birthday present)
I would check with him, he may know exactly where your shirt, socks and remote are.
Claudia Dain on 24 Jun 2008 at 9:08 am #
LisaH, I was thinking the same thing! That adorable ward of the state is moving your stuff, Julia. Kids are responsible for 90% of the mess and confusion in a house, dogs for the other 10%. Those figures can be reversed depending upon the age of the child and the breed of the dog. But the important point to remember here is that it’s *never* the fault of the tax paying adults in the dwelling. Never, ever, ever.
And has anyone see a pair of very expensive gold earrings? The dog misplaced them 5 months ago.
dbrown3400 on 24 Jun 2008 at 9:19 am #
The one thing I’ve been missing for awhile is not unusual, just frustrating – a blouse that goes with a pair of slacks. I know I own it because it’s in my driver’s license picture. I’ve searched through every piece of clothing I own and it isn’t there. I live alone so there are no clothes gremlins.
The only other thing that goes missing in my life is paperwork. I confess to being a stacker, not a filer. I have these beautiful file drawers set up with folders and labels. But do I use them, no. My paperwork sits in stack waiting to be filed. Ergo, when I need a document, I must search through my stacks of papers looking for it. Invariably, I pass right over it numerous times before I finally hit upon it. I know I have lost it forever and am usually in a panic while looking for it to begin with. The ironic thing is I’m generally in the right stack starting out. Oh well, maybe this confession will prompt me to file the darn stuff. *g*
Lisa H on 24 Jun 2008 at 9:19 am #
Claudia, you let your dog borrow your earrings? LOL!
Lisa H on 24 Jun 2008 at 9:20 am #
LOL dbrown – “I know I own it because it’s in my driver’s license picture.”
SuzyQ on 24 Jun 2008 at 9:23 am #
Just recently my dh borrowed my minivan and took the keys off my keychain. Well, of course they went missing. He swore he put them on the counter when he walked in. So after a week of using my spares and forbidding him to touch my keys (as this was the only pair left) we finally found them. Care to take a guess where they were? The dishwasher. That’s right – the dishwasher. I happened to be unloading it and caught them lying in the back corner. The funny thing is, the automatic lock/unlock still worked! I have no idea how many times they got washed during the week, but I can say I have the cleanest keys.
amy1242 on 24 Jun 2008 at 9:30 am #
I’m missing my favorite pair of undies! On a weekend trip up to the northwoods, our truck broke down in an unfamiliar town. We took most of the stuff with us that was in the back, but I left the dirty laundry bag in it, as it was towed to the repair shop. Four days later we get the truck back, with my favorite undies missing out of the dirty laundry bag! I don’t even want to picture what happened to them. I hope the mechanic is enjoying them at least…and hopefully, she’s a girl?
Louisa Cornell on 24 Jun 2008 at 9:32 am #
Ladies, thank you for my morning smile! I have laughed so much at all of your responses. And shame on all of us for accusing Julia’s darling little ward of elfdom/impdom! Myself included! BUT he is so cute, he can get away with it!
Karen H – My Oakley aviators are one of the few things I DON’T lose. They were a gift from one of my former students when he graduated from law school. (He graduated and I got the gift! Gotta love that!) He gave them to me because in all the years I taught him I had them search the classroom for my sunglasses at least three times per week! The Oakleys are in the case in a place of honor. I hardly ever wear them because I don’t want to lose them!
For nearly 15 years I shared my home with a pair of ferrets – Mischief and Mayhem. I cannot tell you how many times my car keys, my watch, visitors’ keys and various other shiny things went missing. I would ask them “Where did you put Mama’s keys?” and I swear they would laugh at me as they ran away!
Karen Hawkins on 24 Jun 2008 at 9:44 am #
Oh, thank goodness I’m not the only ‘can’t wear expensive sunglasses because I can’t keep track of them’ people in the world. My guy thinks it’s so unusual and says I’m the only person he knows who can’t keep track of their sunglasses. Well, now I can tell him I AM NOT ALONE!
Another thing that goes missing — one sock. I NEVER lose a pair. I ALWAYS lose one. I have a box of unmatched socks. Once in a while, I go through them and find matches, then toss the others. I just can’t figure out how they went missing. I don’t lose pants or shirts or shorts — just one sock at a time.
Odd. Mysterious. Other worldly, even.
Louisa, I need ferrets! Then I could blame them when I can’t find my sunglasses!
Kay on 24 Jun 2008 at 10:41 am #
We had a mad scramble looking for my youngest son’s spare eyeglasses before our last trip. My DH and I were up until one in the morning—looking EVERYWHERE! I exhausted and frustrated. The next morning, I opened my suitcase to finish packing–and there was the case with the spare glasses! Then I remembered, I had put them in the suitcase a week earlier. *blush*
I gave up on prescription sunglasses years ago. It is MUCH cheaper for me to have bifocals that change into sunglasses, than buy regular glasses, reading glasses and tons of prescription sunglasses, which I would loose almost every day.
Then there’s the cell phone—I try to leave my cell phone ringer on so I can call it from the home phone to find where I’ve left it! Oh, the chaos in our house if I’ve turned the ringer off. And yes, I have found it in the freezer, on top of the hot water heater, and under the cat! LOL
Julia London on 24 Jun 2008 at 10:44 am #
We did accuse our ward of state, and he said, “Where Pooh at?” and went off to find him. I think my socks are probably tucked into a pot or pan or something like that. And the remote? God only knows. It still hasn’t turned up.
But the one that stumps us is the shirt. A man’s golf shirt can’t just disappear, can it?
As for finding a remote in the freezer, this happened a few years ago when the kids were younger and hanging out at our house in the summer. There it was, right where the popscicles used to be.
Once, in college, I lost a library book. I searched and searched and finally decided that I’d left it in class. I paid the outrageous sum of $25 (tells you how long ago I was in college). Months later, I found it in my freezer. I never cooked. I think I must have gotten ice or something and got distracted. That book and four or five ice trays with the ice evaporated out of them were the only things in the freezer, LOL. I still have the book! Democracy in America.
limecello on 24 Jun 2008 at 11:14 am #
This is bad – but I lose things all the time. I lost my car keys in my bag yesterday. (Long story – my dad had driven it somewhere) – so I thought he had them – luckily I had a spare set because he was gone. When I got home at night…. buried in the bowels of my bag… were my keys.
I manage not only to lose things in obvious places, I lose them even though I look for them again and again. And then find them in a place I just looked.
Ronlyn on 24 Jun 2008 at 11:26 am #
Check cereal boxes for the remote. Seriously. I won’t tell you the number of times I’ve found my keys, my cell phone, a remote or some other small electronic in the cereal box.
And my clothes constantly come up missing…I’ve discovered that when DH “helps” with the laundry he can’t tell the difference between MY dress slacks (I’m 5′1) and HIS shorts (he’s 6′3), they wind up in the same place. *rolling my eyes*
I have also (although I blame this on “baby brain”) put my purse in the fridge and my lunch in the desk drawer.
Janae on 24 Jun 2008 at 11:29 am #
When I was in middle school I had a shirt that disappeared for about 6 months, and then magically reappeared one day. I looked EVERYWHERE for that shirt. I remember that my mom tried to tell me that I didn’t have a shirt that color, and it was almost to the point that I was beginning to believe her when my shirt reappeared.
I have “lost” my keys only to have them turn up in the keyhole.
I have to leave the ringer on high on my cell phone because I frequently misplace it. Before I got into the habit of replacing the cordless phone on the ringer, I was constantly losing it.
Back in the day of pagers, I washed and dried dh’s pager. Somehow, dh tried to blame me, even though, he’s the one that left his pager in his pants and actually put the pants in the hamper. I’m not accepting responsibility for washing the pager, but I will for getting him to put his pants in the hamper.*G*
I, too, wear cheap sunglasses because they frequently disappear. cont.
Claudia Dain on 24 Jun 2008 at 11:32 am #
LisaH, never! That pesky dog just likes a bit of bling. He’ll “borrow” to get it. This is how he entertains himself while home alone. He cranks the volume on the CD player, too.
Janae on 24 Jun 2008 at 11:34 am #
I, too, have walked around looking for something, only to realize that I’m carrying it in my hand.
I’ve found things in the refrigerator and freezer – what I really can’t remember. Maybe my keys once.
I have no idea how to operate the DVR/DirecTV without a remote, which frequently gets misplaced.
Nichole on 24 Jun 2008 at 11:41 am #
I wouldn’t be so sure about the man’s golf shirt being too big to disappear Julia! I have two young girls, each with her own special blanket- about the size of a man’s shirt. They are lost about half the time it seems. It’s amazing where they turn up too, under the couch, behind the couch, wadded in the corner, crumpled under toys, under shoes- the list goes on. Even with them being brightly colored it’s suprising how the eye passes over them multiple times, even when you have a crying heartbroken child trailing you through the house anxiously waiting for mommy to miraculously find it again!
Julia London on 24 Jun 2008 at 11:47 am #
Or a grown man trailing around behind you, anxiously waiting for his mommy to find it, LOL.
Suzy Q, that is hilarious about washing your keys!
You guys have all made me realize that the ward of state may be the culprit. And here we thought he was too cute and innocent to REALLY walk off with something valuable.
And don’t think old dog Hugo is off the hook. His eye sight is so bad now that I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s eats first, thinks second. Actually, all his life he’s been an eat first, think second sort of dog. I will never forget the day I came home from work and found him eating big chunks of mortar he’d managed to claw off a corner of the house.
Kathy/C on 24 Jun 2008 at 11:55 am #
I have the kind of sunglasses that fit completely over my regular glasses.
I also have those itty bitty clip ons but they don’t quite fit as I um, well, ok ok I LOST the set that had went with my glasses- sniff!
they had tiny magents on them too that made them fit my frames like a glove. They fell out of my pocket at the mall 2 yrs ago , because I told myself I didn’t need the case.
snort!
never to be seen again!
I now carry both sets. with cases. in my Mary Poppins-like bag, minus the lamp and mirror.
but I really like my 24.99 frame covering sunglasses. I slide them up when inside, like a headband.
I don’t care how stupid I look that way, either!
Claudia Dain on 24 Jun 2008 at 11:56 am #
Julia, we had a dog who ate the drywall! Of course, we knew exactly where it went, no mystery at all. But that dog had “problems.”
Lisa H on 24 Jun 2008 at 11:57 am #
One thing I constantly lose is silverware. I have always had the cheap variety that can be twisted like a pretzel if one so desires. Last year my husband and kids bought me two sets of service for four, nice silverware that cannot easily be bent. Well, it’s only been a year and a half and I’m down to 6 little forks, and 7 tablespoons. Also 2 teaspoons are missing…
I think either myself or my daughter is throwing it away when we clean up after dinner…I really loved that silverware!
Claudia, LOL on your dog. My girlfriend’s cat batted her wedding ring off the dresser once and they had to take practically everything out of the bedroom to find it. That just solidifies my motto, “Pets and jewelery don’t mix.”
Claudia Dain on 24 Jun 2008 at 11:58 am #
I have multiple pairs of sunglasses, all cheap. I don’t lose mine, I destroy them. The hinge breaks or they get scratched, bang, into the trash they go. Whenever I find a cheap pair that looks good on me, I buy them and stick them in a drawer until needed. I must have 5 pair of sunglasses in the house.
Of course, this is my pattern, to buy in multiples. Which explains why I have multiple pairs of the same shoe in different colors. Cute, comfortable, and cheap! Charge it!
Kathy/C on 24 Jun 2008 at 12:04 pm #
http://www.solarshield.com/fitsover.html
here all you eyeglass wearers, get your own.
:0)
Kathy/C on 24 Jun 2008 at 12:08 pm #
I still can’t find my favourite tweezers. Used them in the bedroom. my cat must have batted them off in the middle of the night- I started putting my eyeglasses in the drawer to save me from stepping on them in the morning.
That was more than a month ago,and since hen I’ve vacuumed a few times and moved furniture. they are just gone!
Claudia, my nephew’s dog ate the wall too.
He a HUGE Bernese Mountain dog. James’ 2 yr old son rides him all the time.
He’s a just a lovable dork of a dog!
Suzanne Enoch on 24 Jun 2008 at 12:19 pm #
I’ve worn contact lenses for years, but I always have a pair of glasses around, just in case. Well, I scratched my eye a couple of weeks ago, and I could not find my new pair of current-fashion glasses. Since I never throw anything away, I ended up using an old pair from 1984 — big lenses, very round, and very heavy. I looked like my worst high school nightmare. Why couldn’t I have lost those instead of the new ones?
Of course after my eye healed, the new ones turned up again. Sigh.
cail on 24 Jun 2008 at 1:08 pm #
btw Suzie, I just got your new book!! can’t wait
colinfirthfan on 24 Jun 2008 at 1:12 pm #
KarenH, you are in good company. I refuse to buy sunglasses that cost more that $10.00 They are either lost or broken in a few months. I go through so many pairs of sunglasses that my DH just rolls his eyes when I say I need another pair.
I have heard people swear by the St. Anthony prayer though I have never tried it. I think it works only if you truly believe in it.
Sabrina, I too never throw away my kids single socks. I find them under the bed, under the seats in the car, in the toy box….
Julia, have you looked fr the remote behind the T.V? We found it in a box of books once, under the couch oh and in that little space between the back of the couch and the place where the cushions rest? have you checked there? you have to stick your arm in.
Karen Hawkins on 24 Jun 2008 at 1:13 pm #
It’s a given that if you don’t need them, they will turn back up.
Amy1241 . . . the whole missing underwear thing has been bothering me. I keep seeing a leering mechanic with a name tag that reads “Spook” and dirty hands with your undies hanging in his locker. That’s wrong.
Speaking of undies, I was sitting at dinner last night in a Mexican restaurant and overheard the people behind us talking. This one woman said in a very loud voice, “AND WHEN I GOT HOME, THERE WAS A KNOT TIED IN MY THONG! I DON’T KNOW HOW THAT GOT THERE, BUT WOW! WAS I SURPRISED!”
Needless to say, the entire place broke up. She got all red in the face, but I don’t think she really cared. Margaritas will do that to a person. That’s probably how the whole knotted thong thing happened, too.
That is SO going into a book.
Claudia Dain on 24 Jun 2008 at 1:16 pm #
Karen, aren’t you just dying to know where the knot in the thong was tied? For comfort’s sake, I’m hoping it was up on the back part. Of course, as we’re discussing thongs, there is no real comfort anywhere to be had with them.
colinfirthfan on 24 Jun 2008 at 1:21 pm #
Once we were driving down to L.A. – everyone is ready to leave when I suddenly realized that I didn’t know where my son’s blankie was. I spent an hr tearing the house apart looking for it.
It was in my backpack in the car with the rest of the luggage! Sigh!!
Margaret Garland on 24 Jun 2008 at 1:30 pm #
ROTFL, Karen!!!! The Mystery of the Knotted Thong. Oh wait. That would be a title for Karen Rose. And people wonder where authors get their ideas. Too funny.
colinfirthfan>>I have heard people swear by the St. Anthony prayer though I have never tried it. I think it works only if you truly believe in it.
Don’t be too sure about that, kiddo. I never believe it going to work. Yet, 9 times out of 10 the item will show up. I’m not a praying, religious sort. So, you can’t chalk it up to that. I think it has something to do with the fact you have to slow down and get un-frantic a bit to say the prayer. Then, your subconcious kicks in and you can locate the missing whatever. I don’t know any other saints to try. As long as I find stuff, I’m not going to rock the boat.
I don’t even know who St Anthony was or why he’s in charge of lost stuff.
Margaret Garland on 24 Jun 2008 at 1:32 pm #
Since I’m a 100% white cotton brief type of girl, I have no idea what a thong would feel like. I wear cotton for health reasons. Not for show.
However, there is nothing about a thong that looks the least comfortable, Claudia. Which makes me wonder why any sane woman would wear one. I’d rather go commando.
Karen Hawkins on 24 Jun 2008 at 1:50 pm #
Btw, I once had a ring fall off my finger. A wedding ring, actually, and I never found it. Anyone else have a ring just fall off? Very odd, but I never took them off and one day, it was just gone.
Margaret Garland on 24 Jun 2008 at 2:00 pm #
Kathy/C. Thank you, thank you! I went to the SolarShield web site and saw that Walmart carries them. Same thing by another name, I think. They look the same. I called both local stores and they both carry them. So, I’ll be off in the morning to get a pair and to get a padded chair-in-a-bag that I saw a softball parent with a week or so back. Walmart has that, also. Whee. I’ll be in hog heaven.
Karen, I took some of the older grandchildren to a local park when they were small. We were feeding the fish and the ducks. I had a gorgeous marquis-cut diamond ring I’d bought in a pawn shop in Houston years before. I threw some bread out and the blasted ring went with it! Talk about a strange feeling. I just stood there and watched my beautiful ring disappear into the mud and muck. I couldn’t even cry, I was so stunned. Fortunately, it was insured but I still miss that ring.
Pawn shops are great places to shop for jewelry, BTW.
Margaret Garland on 24 Jun 2008 at 2:03 pm #
Karen H, is the loss of your wedding ring where you got the idea for the Talisman ring in the St John series? I notice it adjusts to fit the right woman.
Also, I meant to comment on your stained glass that you do. I believed it when I read the loving descriptions that were given in “The Bride Wore Plaid”. No wonder Kat was so good at what she did. Her creator knew what was up with stained glass.
Julia London on 24 Jun 2008 at 2:18 pm #
K-HA, hahahahahaaa on the thong story! Thats priceless!
I lost a ring in the ocean once. It came right off.
ColinFirthfan, no way am I ’sticking my arm” in that crack! Jack can do it, not me!
Suzanne, it seems like those giant coke-bottle bottom glasses might have helped you locat the stylish pair, eh?
Julia London on 24 Jun 2008 at 2:29 pm #
P.S. Lisa H — years ago I bought a set of Cutco knives from my nephew. Those puppies were something like $300 a set. It came with four steak knives and two big ones. I have one big one and two steak knives left.
I always thought it would be lovely to have ecclectic collection of real silver, but I am not willing to spend money knowing that I will end up with the titanium and plastic flatware and lose the good stuff.
Nicole Jordan on 24 Jun 2008 at 3:35 pm #
Boy, do you goddesses make me laugh. I’m misplacing stuff regularly these days — and it drives me totally nuts. I’ve been looking for an address for weeks now, and I know I just filed it in the wrong file, but I had to jump through hoops to find friends who could tell me how to contact this person.
Paula on 24 Jun 2008 at 3:48 pm #
Julia I can sympathise, i have mislaid/lost a pair of blue cropped trousers and have searched everywhere for them with no luck. My youngest son is like a magpie and if we lose things we tend to look in his bedroom and someimes we are successful.
Good luck with finding the shirt, socks and the remote.
K-Ha I had to laugh at the thong story, I tried one once but it was so uncomfortable, never again.
Kathy/C on 24 Jun 2008 at 3:53 pm #
alright I didn’t exactly lose this but I was embarrassed about who found it!
Sunday we packed up the Russell’s truck and headed for the grands to set up survivor stuff. I in my ultimate wisdom decided to not quite be prepared for the period that came roaring in while I was standing in a parking lot with the girls by the truck waiting for their dad. I rushed into the bathroom and had to take my undies off. I should have just thrown them out, but NO, I had to roll them up and stuff them in the back of the truck behind my bag, thinking I was stuffing them INTO my bag.Didn’t think another thing about them.
Once we arrived, Stephen took the truck down around to unload the tents,balls, nets etc.When it was time to go 3hrs later, I’m hopping back into the truck and he says quietly, “I think you left some clothes behind”GASP! there those neon green cotton big girl panties all rolled up and sitting by the wheel hump.At least with 4 girls, I can be assured he’ll see that again.
sigh
ArkansasCyndi on 24 Jun 2008 at 4:00 pm #
I lost my wedding ring once. I looked EVERYWHERE. I literally went through everything I’d done since I’d gotten home that afternoon. I found it in a basket UNDER a potted plant. I’d watered the plant so I guess it fell off.
I had a bikini that disappeared. I think my boyfriend took it so I couldn’t wear it around other guys.
I read a story about a woman who had her clothes washer replaced. When the old one was removed, a slew of single socks were found in the pipe. They’d been sucked in. Odd.
And a thong? As Jay Leno would say, call it was it really it…butt floss
Julia London on 24 Jun 2008 at 4:43 pm #
Arkansas, that’s exactly what is! (Julia, who will admit to owning a pair. ONE pair. Just one. Rarely worn!).
Cathy, that would have sent Jack London to his knees, I think. hahahaha (laughing with you, not at you!)
colinfirthfan on 24 Jun 2008 at 5:39 pm #
Cathy, my DH would’ve gone screaming into the night!!!
Kathy/C on 24 Jun 2008 at 5:55 pm #
he’s not even MY husband!!! hahahaha !
He’s the dad of the girls I used to look after!!!
I think it was funny- embarrasing at the time, but funny!
The first week I worked for the family, I called my sister in law to say hi during a break. the caller ID told her who was calling. she started giggling like a teenager. She asked me if he grew up in Halifax and knew where he had gone to school. Turned out she had a major crush on him when she was a teenager and used to follow him around in her Catholic school girl uniform. snort!
His wife told me never to tell him, it would go to his head. he’s quite the hunky guy. 6′5″, wavy hair that’s all silver now. former basketball star, now the coach of his daughters’ teams
TinaLouiseF on 24 Jun 2008 at 6:45 pm #
I lost my checkbook for 2 weeks. I finally found it between two empty laundry baskets.
My cell phone and Penneys card have been missing since President’s Day.
The battery was going dead, so I shut it off so I wouldn’t have to listen to it beep. Have not seen either since. I know they are not stolen because there are no charges on either statement.
Sabrina Jeffries on 24 Jun 2008 at 7:38 pm #
Even if I were to miraculously lose enough weight to look like Julia Roberts, I would never wear a thong. I cannot imagine why anyone does. Why would you want a permanent wedgie? Sheesh!
I actually buy my sunglasses at the dollar store. THAT is how bad I am about breaking and/or losing them. And like Claudia, I stockpile them.
The other day, I was so dazzled by Claudia’s talk at our chapter that I apparently could not hold on to my sunglasses. I don’t know how it happened but they had disappeared by the end of the day. I had JUST pulled them out of the drawer that morning. Brand new pair. Gone. After one afternoon with Claudia (that was SOME talk, let me tell you).
Now you know why I love the dollar store.
Julia London on 24 Jun 2008 at 7:57 pm #
So what was the talk about?
Sunglasses are like purses to me. I buy expensive and hold on to them for years. That’s one thing I don’t lose.
amy1242 on 24 Jun 2008 at 10:16 pm #
Karen H., the creep factor is still with me. I try really hard not to picture what happened to them. “Spook” is probably missing a tooth or two. Yeesh!!!
Kim on 24 Jun 2008 at 11:08 pm #
Sabrina–how in the heck did you get your teen ager to actually put his clothes away!?!?! Nothing sends me into a rage more than a clean pile of folded clothes tossed on the floor. ergh.
KarenH–O.M.G. That is hilarious.
Julia–I’m SO raiding your purse closet *g* So, um, if one of your purses comes up missing it wasn’t me. LOL
Kathy/Cookie on 25 Jun 2008 at 5:14 am #
yeah we kind of got off topic didn’t we?
I’ll stop by saying
“yes, I’m a loser, but in the items department-NEVER in the life dept!!!” lol