Not looking for something..............................

[Cycler]

Several weeks ago as I packed my new, used, gadget bag I realised my Vivitar 2x teleconverter wasn't there. Searching I virtually turned the flat upside-down. And had to settle for patience; "It'll turn up-I hope!"

During the night I had to look for another item, a vintage Camera Care Systems 'Better Belt' and turned up a vinyl pouch with something in it. That something was my loose TCV.
Now I know that I searched this location, my wardrobe at least three times looking for the TCV, So the question is; "Are all wardrobes linked to the higher dimensions?" And is mankind barking up the wrong tree with this space exploration lark? When a short hike via one's bedroom can get one anywhere in the multiverse?

Anyone else had this inter-dimensional 'disappearance'?

 

[onre]

It's too bad that the inter-dimensionality only seems to work when you lose items. Otherwise it would mean that you never run out of storage space.

 

[Sewin]

What I find very strange is that when looking for something I always find it at the last place I look

 

[removed account4]

hi cycler ---
i have had similar experiences ...
but more like the shoemaker and the elves.

 

[bsdunek]

Happens all the time with me too. I can lay a tool down on the workbench and then can't find it moments later. Later, it's right where I put it. Something to do with the 4th or 5th dimensions, I guess.

 

[bdial]

How come it's only the stuff you are actually looking for that visits these other dimensions? Instead of all of the stuff that just stays in one place day after day because you might need it sometime?

 

[Steve Smith]

What I find very strange is that when looking for something I always find it at the last place I look

You mean you don't carry on searching for it after you have found it?!


Steve.

 

[mweintraub]

They are hanging out with the dryer socks.

 

[wiltw]

They are hanging out with the dryer socks.

Why do you persist in calling them 'dryer socks' when they were NOT IN the dryer when you pulled them out of the dryer?! Should they not be called 'interdimensional socks'?

 

[Jeff Bradford]

It always turns out to be in the last place you look, so have the forethought to look there first.

My camera stuff stopped disappearing when I got divorced. Hmmm....

 

[mweintraub]

Why do you persist in calling them 'dryer socks' when they were NOT IN the dryer when you pulled them out of the dryer?! Should they not be called 'interdimensional socks'?

Technically the dryer is the inter-dimensional vehicle, so yeah.

 

[KenS]

It is the unobserved 'magic' that changes the dryer socks into drier socks...

Ken

 

[frank]

I believe dryers to be wormhole portals to the multi-verse. They are the real life phone booths from Dr. Who.

 

[winger]

It's Gremlins.

 

[Sirius Glass]

I have always found things in the last place that I would look. So now when I cannot find somethings the first place I go to is that last place that I would look and it is always there. Try it; it works!

 

[Kirks518]

I had two instances of interdimensional travel, and both items returned within a day of each other.

I was looking for my father's watch to give to my son. I know I put it in the jewelry box. Nope. Not in either of the two. Tore the house up, and even the shed looking for it. No avail.

I bought some 35mm reloadable cartridges, and wanted to load them up. I know they were in two small brown paper sacks. I remember putting them with related items (empty film canisters, leader retriever, etc.). Found the other stuff no problem, but the cartridges weren't there. Again, tore the house apart (keeping an eye out for the watch as well). Nope. Nada. Nothing.

Daughter comes into the room, puts something on top of the wardrobe, and says "what's in this jewelry box?". I totally forgot I had a third jewelry box (and I wear no jewelry). Sure enough, there's dad's 1952 Omega Automatic. I knew i put it in a jewelry box!

The next day, I needed a battery. I have used but still good batteries in a box. Go to the box, and there are two small brown paper sacks. WTH were they doing in there?!?!? But I found my cartridges....

 

[MartinCrabtree]

Maytag dryers hold the secret to inter-dimensional travel.

 

[Sirius Glass]

When one gets old there are two things things that go. One is short term memory. Now what were we talking about?

 

[Alan Gales]

I know where it is!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzlG28B-R8Y

 

[Fr. Mark]

Read the CSLewis Narnia Books

 

[OptiKen]

Happens all the time with me too. I can lay a tool down on the workbench and then can't find it moments later.

For me, it gets worse.
I'll lay a tool down and can't find it a minute later....
......don't remember what the tool was or even what I needed it for.

 

[benjiboy]

Wait till you get to my age Cycler.

 

[Alan Gales]

I own Nikon D200 and D300 cameras. Last year one of my chargers with battery disappeared. My wife and daughter said they hadn't seen them. This Christmas my wife and daughter pulled out our Christmas decorations and found the missing charger and battery. My wife had accidently packed them away.

Are you married?