LOST IN SPACE
How do you
lose something that never left the house?
It happened last week and it is driving me crazy.
Three weeks
ago I bought a golf GPS toy. This toy
tells you the distance from your ball to the front of the green and the middle
of the green and works at virtually any golf course in the country. It also allows you to measure the distance of
any shot you hit. It is a great golf
toy. It cost me $105, and was worth
every cent.
Now I have
played golf for 50+ years without this technology and never had any
issues. Suddenly, I need this toy to play
golf. I played three rounds with my golf
GPS and was loving it. The last time I
used it, the battery ran down.
I specifically
remember bringing it into the house, charging it to full and bringing it
downstairs and putting it in my golf hat with my car keys and wallet where I
always put important stuff. Two days
later, after Mrs. Cranky cleaned up the room, I went to get my keys, wallet and
golf toy as I was playing that day with my old, old friends.
The golf toy
was nowhere to be found. I tore the room
apart. I searched everywhere, even places
where I know I never would have put it…nothing.
I may have blown my top a bit.
At first I
blamed Mrs. C as she cleaned up the room, but Mrs. C NEVER throws anything
away. It simply disappeared. I know for sure it was in the house. I know for sure it never left the house. It is nowhere to be found.
I found an
old harmonica that I forgot ever had. I
found ski gloves that I thought were left in the snow. I found sunglasses I never knew I had. I found $15.65 I didn’t know I lost. I found bank statements, candy that was three
years old, missing nail clippers and a napkin autographed by Soupy Sales, but
no GPS golf toy.
HOW DOES
THIS HAPPEN? DOES THIS HAPPEN TO ANYONE
ELSE?
After 50+
years of playing golf without a similar toy, suddenly I cannot play without it.
I went to Dick’s
and bought a new one yesterday. Instead
of black I bought it in ugly green…easier to find when lost. I expect I will find the lost one any day
now.
On the plus
side, Dick’s sold the same toy that cost $105 at Golfsmith’s, for $80.
Not sure where your's might be, but a cover to a corning wear dish that I "swore" son/family had and they could not find suddenly appeared at their house today 6 weeks after the time it was missing. Give it 6 weeks and I bet your golf GPS will surface too. Meanwhile, good you bought another one.
ReplyDeletebetty
Yeah, it's bound to turn up sooner or later. But it's a right pain when you can't find it. Gerry, I must be getting cranky too.
DeleteFaeries. They might bring it back ...
ReplyDeleteYou'll find it years from now.
ReplyDeleteIt happens to me all of the time. The place I find it usually makes sense, in retrospect.
Anyway, who can't use two of those golf GPS things, anyway?
We lose stuff all the time. Then after we purchase the new whatever it is we find the old one. Sometimes we end up with several things that are the same. Hubby and I swear it's because we're old and forgetful. I think the house is playing tricks on us.
ReplyDeleteHave a fabulous day Joe. ☺
It happened to me only yesterday! Nothing valuable or interesting. I had a clear plastic container that once held sauce for breadsticks. The lid fits tight, so I couldn't see discarding such reusable hillbilly Tupperware.
ReplyDeleteI carried that container to the kitchen table, laid down the lid while filling the bottom part, and couldn't find the lid! I knew it was somewhere on the kitchen table, but I couldn't find it. Ten minutes and five separate searches later, I saw it on top of the green metal lid of a sun tea jar.
I suggest you go to your kitchen table and look for you fancy GPS thingy on the lid of a sun tea jar.
Yeah, it does and I can't explain it either
ReplyDeleteIt happens to me all the time, I'm sure it isn't our age.(smile) Just ask the good lord for help and you will find it (maybe).
ReplyDeleteConstantly. Usually the damn thing is in plain sight when I finally 'find' it, but sometimes not. Once I lost the car keys, had to use the spare for a few days, then found them in the freezer, next to the chicken I'd put in after going to the store.
ReplyDeleteLet's see--105 plus 80 less 15 found equals 170. Ten rounds of golf will amortize it to 17 per round, but 100; well, that's $1.70. Unless you need to replace it again.
ReplyDeleteI just hate it when you KNOW the lost item is still in the house somewhere. Usually buying another is a guarantee that you will now find the lost one. Oh well, never hurts to have a spare.
ReplyDeleteI think there's a black hole in the universe where things disappear into. Happens to me all the time.
ReplyDeleteSo THAT'S where things go!!
DeleteErma Bombeck said lost socks go to heaven & live with Jesus. Maybe that's where your golf thingy went!!
DeleteYou don't happen to have an overnight visitor do you, named Serling? Rod Serling?
ReplyDeleteYes, it happens to me once in a while, but it happens to Sweetie all of the time, and always has. Bigger Girl has no sense of direction and could get lost in a shoebox, he has no sense of where he puts things when he plonks them down and could lose anything not attached to him in that same shoebox.
ReplyDeleteSounds like one of your sox took it for a ride. Have you looked in tupperware cabinet :)
ReplyDeleteoh, that's frustrating!
ReplyDeleteTry praying to Saint Anthony. You'll find it!
ReplyDeleteWere the keys and wallet still in your hat?
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