*clap, clap* Beep!

*clap, clap*

Beep!  Beep!

kevin

I Feel Your Pain

I was putting together some switch stands last night, in preparation for laying track. For the life of me, I couldn't find the second stand (there's only two needed for my little Inglenook). I dug though my usual storage spaces, cleaned my desk, and had gotten to the point of looking in some truly ridiculous places.

I went back to my workbench, and guess what was sitting on it?

Yes, sir, I feel your pain.

Don't Feel So Bad

I'm remodeling the kitchen right now and can't keep track of 3 measuring tapes. Who's in worse shape ?

Espee over Donner

Is anyone else as absent minded as I am?

Happens to me all the time: can't find a tool I just used, can't find a part I ust laid down..etc,etc......

I think I'll start wearing a t shirt I got for my wife: I have CHEMO brain, what's your excuse?  ( she's being treated for brain cancer). Got to have humor in life or it gets dull.  Joe 

Hi-Viz solution?

I have a tendency to wrap my tools in brightly colored duct tape or electrical tape - at work it instantly identifies a tool as being mine (of interest, I discovered that the other Army guy in the company does the same thing - fortunately he picked a different color). 

It also tends to make them easier to find against a cluttered background... 

I personally think that all remote controls should come in cases of international distress orange. 

Hmmmm

With apologies in advance....

At least it wasn't paintbrushes you mislaid for that backdrop! 

I'm always doing the same but I can be too tidy for my own good, putting everything away when I've finished with it, mainly because the layout is in the guest bedroom.

Brian

Smoke

Michael,

I'm so glad you posted this comment. Now I don't feel so alone! 

I had a friend once who had the same problem when it came to his cigarettes. He told me once he was in his workshop and lit up a smoke, then laid it down. Forgetting he had done so a few minutes later he lit up another smoke and laid it down as well. After a while he looked around and saw he had four cigarettes going at once. In his case though that turned out to be a good thing. It was the straw that broke the camels back and got him to stop smoking. He hasn't touched a cigarette since!

Anyway, if you find a fix for the problem, let us know. You'll be helping more people than you know!

I found it.....

....lying on the stairs up to the pool deck in plain view!  We have a small (18 foot round) above ground pool and I've been re plumbing the filter and I never quite finished the balusters on the stairs leading up to the deck last year. I'm doing two things at once. That's why it was there.  Of course if my dear wife finds out I've been running power tools with no one here but me and the dogs, y'all may not hear from me again anyway!

She has a fear about that. Thinks I'll have an accident. I told her I'd trained the basett hounds to call 911 but she was skeptical.

Michael

She shouldn't be.  Bassets

She shouldn't be.  Bassets are "Incredibly Intelligent" and should have no problem calling 911.  I would have bet ours growing up could have.

Unless you have the OTHER Basset breed:  the "Super Stupid" ones.  Yep, we had one of them too...

That aside, I hate tape measures.  I have 7 or 8 and only know where 1 is at a time.....

kevin

Ahh Yes

And it's always in the last place you look. Hang on Michael....it gets worse as you get older. Now where is that loco I was looking for ? Wait...where's my mouse ?

Michael

Yes of course it's the last place you look....

...because you have no more places to look!!

Michael

Absent minded?

Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most!

You have not lost anything until you lose your eyeglasses. You search around for them and then someone asks what you are looking for. My eyeglasses. They are on your head. DUH! I have had this conversation with two people in the last year. LOL.

I have a tendency to misplace things. Hard to believe when I live in a house of only 800 sq. ft. I guess if I would put them back in their proper place, then they wouldn't be misplaced.

There's a reason I have at

There's a reason I have at least ten tape measures.....

No problem here........I

No problem here........I can't remember what it was I misplaced. lol

Bassets are "Incredibly

Yes, they are. I've tried to talk my girl basset hound " Holly" into operating the layout with me but besides being vertically challenged, she doesn't have an opposable thumb for a regular throttle and her paw is too big for the touch screen on a smart phone throttle.....Oh well.....

Michael

Solution .....

..... always start your search for the missing item in the last place.

Missing tools

Some clever wag has said that, on any given day, you "have"  about half as many tools as you "own"

Sometimes I WISH I could find half!!

Is there anyone over 40 this

Is there anyone over 40 this hasn't happened to?  I'm like the guy with the 3 tape measures, did the very same thing, couldn't find one of them.  We won't even talk about car fobs or glasses.

If someone could invent a

If someone could invent a "Google" for finding misplaced items, I'd nominate them for sainthood! 

Sure, it would require super advanced A.I. technology with God-like omniscience, but it probably still be easier than cleaning and organizing my office/workspace.

Been there

Heh, had to chuckle, Michael...I have been there many a time. Sometimes I even forget what I came into the room to get, and have to go back to where I started to remember my original purpose. Oh well, growing older aint' for wimps!

...

 I have four.  I can always find one.

Me Lose Something......

.......Never!!

I recently lost my tape measure and I asked my daughter Kaitlyn to help me find it.

Dad she says, with hands on hips, "Its on your belt!!"

Mumble Mumble

Yup

As Al would say from Happy Days "yuh, yuh, yuh, yuh, yuh"

I bought fluorescent colored tape measures.

Mike,

My wife likes everything in its place.  So, I set the tape measure down, step out to get a tool, come back and I can't find it.  She picked it up and put it in a drawer.  Of course I learn after 30 minutes looking around and she asks me what I lost.  When she hands me the tape measure I turn around to pick up the tool I brought in from the garage and now it is missing.

My biggest problem is thinking ahead to projects.  I go into Lowes, I am buying things for today's project.  I spot something that I know I will need for next weekend's project.  I buy it.  I take it home and I put it away.  When the next weekend gets here I can't remember where I put it.  So, off to Lowes I go again.

I sometimes do that with this hobby.

Den