Lost Scope in House

[mauser284]

If you want to find it, buy another. It will reappear as soon as the UPS truck leaves.

So true. Growing up my mom would put something in a "safe place" and then months latter she would forget where she put it. I do this as well. Just last week I could not remeber where I had put a fresh batch of 175gr. 30Cal match bullets. I found them yesterday.

 

[Old Navy]

Did you look in the dryer next to the lost socks?

According to Erma Bombeck there is a sock heaven.

 

[mauser284]

If it makes you feel any better I looked for a tie today for 20 minutes until I bent over, and it fell off my shoulder.

In the 1980's my mom would push her eye glasses to the top of her head on top of her hair. She would forget that she did that and spend some time looking for them. She is almost blind with out them. She would ask me to help and I would laugh and point out that they where on top of her head. Kind of like putting your pencil behind your ear and forgetting you put it there!

 

[mauser284]

I would set things on top of this super tall refrigurator my parents once had to do something real quick in the kitchen like take some medicine real fast with mouth under the facet in the sink sort of thing. I would get back to what ever I was doing like working on a car or doing chores. 2-3 weks would go by and I would suddenly think to check the top of the refrigerator and sure eenough it would be there. This fridge was so tall that even at 6 foot 1 I could not see on top of it. I would just feel around on top of it.

 

[Old Navy]

I bought a bright red high lift jack four years ago. I didnt even get a chance to use it and haven’t seen it since.

You are better off without that. They can be hazardous to your health.

 

[mauser284]

Well, if you put stuff back in the exact place everytime after U use it, U will never lose anything.
Not even a 10mm socket!
So my father taught me.

And it works

Yes and that works with things that fall into that catagory like my wallet, keys, glasses and cell phone all live in the same place and when I come home they all go to their home. My cell phone has to homes. My pocket and next to my mouse.

I never have to look for these things at all. I do not have a place for the lock screws of a Mauser I was int he middle of working on when I lost my home and had to find a new home about 8 years ago. I am sure they made the trip with me but darned if I have found them in the 8 years since. They would have normaly lived happily in the bottom metal had I not been working on it at the time I suddenly had to move!

All of my years as a pilot I could likewise tell you exactly what pocket of my flight bag all of gear was kept.

The things we tend to misplace though are the things we do not have permanent homes for yet. Things we seldom use seperated from their normaly home.

When I was 12 or 13 years old I was grounded for like 3 months because I had lost another Miltary ID Card and my dad had to take time from work to get me another one. As a dependent in the Army there are two things you need for everything from shopping, entertainment, medical care, youth activities you need your Military ID and you have to know you sponsors SS# for every place you went. Missing either and you truly an outcast unable to do anything. My entirely life from birth was about routines and discipline and being as responsible as a 35 year old man at the age of 12! You learn to do everything over and over again as a series of routines.

Flight School was more of the same repetition to no end routines on top of routines.

The US Army taught me that I can learn anything and do anything if I break a skill down into pieces master each piece and reassemble as a complete skill! It also taught me that Repittion is the Mother of All Learning! I learned patients and persistenace! My kids do not understand how I can spend 3 hours trying to get a nut or a bolt to start on a car in a diffacult postion drop said nut or bolt over and over and over again for hours until I get it! All those years of discipline and routine have largely gone out the window now that I am 50 and do not need to live that way! LOL

Life has taught me that few of us are naturally that self discipline in our daily lives and most of us even with harsh military expectations slowly revert to soft undisciplined civilians as soon as we can! LOL Things that are life and death or really important to us like our wallets, keys, cell phones and glasses are easy to keep track of but everything else is shades of gray!

Like I said I misplaced 200 bullets and it took me over a week to find them. Had I put them with all my other reloading gear instead of sitting them on the sofa where I only sit once or twice a year usaualy at family get togethers they would not have been lost for over a week. They where still in the shipping box from Creedmoor Sports. I am sure I got a phone call or some one knocked on the door or something similar and in that moment I sat them down for what I thought would be just a second and forgot about them. Since I never sit on the sofa and I do not watch TV I never thought to look in that area.

 

[Bottom Fodder]

I think some people are miss placing their Labradar and saying its lost so they can buy the new Garmin

 

[46and2]