[time-nuts] OT loosing things

[William H. Fite]

"Faeries," ma Scottish Gram use' tae say.

My son found his sunglasses on the back of a shelf in his refrigerator...

When I unpacked a box of my Scots kit following a cross-country move, I
found a Byrds album tucked neatly between my best kilt and my full plaid...

When we cleared out Gram's house after her death, we found a petrified apple
pie up on a top shelf with her "good" china...

These are the same wee folk who clutter your closet with empty wire hangers
when you don't need them and empty it of same when you do.

Who move your roll of solder right in the middle of your job so that you
have to stop and find it when you used it not two minutes ago.

Who cause the printer cartridge that you know damned well you bought two
weeks ago to disappear entirely.

And who now seem to have purloined the upper-middle section of my 12' Xmas
tree.

Gram said you could mollify them by leaving bowls of milk out for them to
drink.




On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Steve Rooke <sar10538 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I liked the idea of fairies being the culprits but each to their own :)
>
> I think that the LW are not completely random, they definitely return
> your own stuff to you but I don't believe it is necessarily in the
> same place.
>
> Ah, now a candidate for a new law. A lost item always turns up the
> moment after you have purchased it's replacement.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve
>
> On 13/11/2010, paul swed <paulswedb at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Certainly one viable theory.
> > However the answers much simpler then that and an established fact
> > documented in many books by such authors as Steven King.
> > Its simply ghosts at work.
> > Worm wholes would not return items to the same place or area.
> > Ghosts would. Although as you mention often much later, even years.
> > Haven't you ever noted the stuff comes back after you buy a replacement?
> > Regards
> >
> > On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 5:11 AM, Steve Rooke <sar10538 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> While repairing my LCD monitor, I took off my glasses so as to be able
> >> to see better close up as I'm VERY short sighted and even the
> >> vari-focals my optician prescribes can no longer get me close enough
> >> to solder properly. Without them on, I can focus VERY close but the
> >> range is VERY short, being just a few inches. So I completed the work
> >> involving a few stages without putting the glasses back on just to
> >> save time but, when I went to grope around and try to find them, I
> >> could not. So where did I put the blessed things, and after a period
> >> of serious extended "looking" around, blind panic started to set in.
> >> What the dickens had I done with them! So I ended up shuffling out of
> >> the workshop, through the house, stumbling over the dogs, and up to
> >> the bedroom to, eventually, find my spare pair. On my return to the
> >> workshop I still could not find the glasses looked everywhere. A cup
> >> of tea ensued and I took a less panicky search only to find they had
> >> fallen down the back of some gear, or maybe it was the fairies at the
> >> bottom of my garden which had done it. I concluded that in my
> >> "blinded" state of putting them down in the first place, I had
> >> obviously chosen an poor "safe" place.
> >>
> >> After this I got to thinking and wondered if there is perhaps
> >> something darker happening here. My current theory is that there is
> >> something called a Lost Wormhole which moves around randomly and
> >> removes items from there current place, setting them down in some
> >> completely different dimension. So the chances of loosing something
> >> increases in proportion to the time that the item is left somewhere
> >> due to the increased probability of it being "borrowed" by the LW.
> >> Now, all is not lost as the LW is a two way pipe and so eventually
> >> your lost item will be dropped back somewhere in your vicinity but
> >> probably not where you thought you had left it. To my mind, this seems
> >> to fit my experience of the way the World seems to work and I'm sure
> >> there is some law here.
> >>
> >> For the humour challenged, this message is :) rated.
> >>
> >> Please feel free to comment on my theory but perhaps this should be via
> >> PM.
> >>
> >> Thank you for your time,
> >> Steve
> >>
> >> --
> >> Steve Rooke - ZL3TUV & G8KVD
> >> The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
> >> - Einstein
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