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I know there have been a several threads regarding this topic, and I have been in sympathy with those misplacing an item and being frustrated that it cannot be located.

But I have normally been able to locate items usually within a few minutes or at most a couple of hours.

If I cannot locate the item easily, then I stop and look for something else and BINGO! there it is.

NOT SO these last three (3) weeks. I started carrying a model 36 as a second duty sidearm, a few weeks ago.

It is a little scuffed, some honest wear, mechanically sound, and I qualified with a score of 100%.

Now I have a set of grips that kinda neat, they are magnetic and make the 36 more comfortable.

I know I had them, could not find them to save my life. After several weeks and really starting to tear the room up, I finally located them as they had slid off the bed and was between the cover and other clutter.

I realize this may be subject to discussion, but it's nice to know I'm not losing it after all.
 
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Ahhhhhhhh...........The Golden Years

Now, what was I going to say? Oh well, maybe later! :D
 
My wife likes to love things and then deny any knowledge of where they are until after I find them, then it's "oh yeah, I moved that"
We also play hide and seek with her keys almost daily and sometimes also with her cell phone.
My worst is when I put something, often a tool or spare part, in a specific place so that I will know where it is when I need it, and then promptly forget any clue as to where that is and all I can recall it that I deliberately chose a place where it would not get lost. Sometimes I can put myself in the same frame of mind, where would I put it again if I had it and there it is, other times I look and look and only after finding it do I recall that is exactly the spot I chose so that I wouldn't forget.
Once in a while I will find things after an extensive search in the first place I had looked but did not see it becuase it was under something I wasn't expecting it to be under or because I thought I was looking for an time of a different color or size or shape and only when I slow down enough to really look at what is in front of me do I find what I was looking for but could not see.
 
One of the most irritating is putting my glasses down in a random spot and forgetting where that is.I need my glasses to find my glasses [emoji57]
 
A copy of a post I made in 2012;


First, let me say that this happened yesterday, and it took me until today to calm down enough to write this up.

I get up yesterday, and the wife has my list all set up for me. She's gone to work, so I'm on my own. Now, for those of you still young enough to have a memory, the list is used because I have CRS. We've arrived at the conclusion I'm more productive when I have a list. (That seems to matter more to her than to me. Go figure.)

So, I do what I always do, get the list, cell phone, other paraphernalia necessary and head out the door. I stop and get a bottle of water out of the downstairs fridge and I'm gone.

I accomplish my list, am getting out of the truck, and I can't find my cell phone. Now, a word about the cell phone. This is my electronic leash. I fall down, get lost, and other things I'll not mention. So when mom calls on the CP and I don't answer, guys in weird cars with lights show up looking for me. Check in times are random, but usually start at about 4:00 pm.

So I backtrack, no CP. I come back into the house, and search it from top to bottom. (having short term memory loss, I'm sure I checked some spots more than once). I even checked under the General, (Fitzhugh Lee, cat extrodinaire) this interrupted his 20 hours of rest, so now he's in a bad mood too.

My cut off time is fast approaching, and I know she is about to call. Now understand, I've spent 5 hours looking for this damn CP, and now I've got to rat myself out. So, I'm pretty upset, I send her an email telling her I've lost my CP. She tries to console me, but I look like a 5 year old. She tells me to calm down, take a break, and she'll help me look for it when she gets home.

I walk out of the den, hiss at the cat, and head out to the garage to get a Diet Dr. Pepper. Guess what's in the fridge? Remember the bottle of water? That's right.
 
Just the other day I was in my reloading room and was looking at a little blue plastic tool box that has been sitting on top of a small office filing cabinet............
Finally went over and brought it over to my reloading table to see what was in the wife's catch all box..........
There I found all sorts of goodies as well as three of my QUALITY screw drivers..................plus a new sheet or hose washers that were in need for three hose adapter things.

Saved a trip to the hardware department............ sweet.
 
I will admit to losing a new rifle scope right after Christmas. We were admiring it, then I put it away before I flew back to the war. Fast forward 8 months, I am so happy, I am on leave, I had bought a new rifle and scope mounts, just one problem, where is the scope? ? I spent a week looking for it. My wife finally asked why I had not gone to the range and I told her I had lost the scope:(
She laughed and said if I opened my eyes and looked in my sock drawer instead of just grabbing a pair I would of found it! Yes, I put it there and plain forgot.
The range trip did not happen, sadly my embarrassment and CRS kept me from asking for help!
 
If I buy a replacement to something I have lost that usually causes the lost item to appear. EXAMPLE: I have been looking for my pair of Peltor ear plugs (the ones with the loud noise valve in them) for several months. I finally broke down and ordered a new set from Midway while I was buying some bullets. Now that I have the new ones, I except the lost ones to resurface quickly. That is unless the dogs ate them. My wife wears the bright green foam ear plugs to bed because I snore. I'm always finding those in the yard. They travel completely through a dog's digestive system intact! My wife is very insistent that I not wash those and give them back to her...
 
What is CRS?

I thought that I'd lost a treasured Zeiss 6X20B pocket monocular. Couldn't find it for weeks and the restaurant where I thought it might have fallen out of my coat pocket said they didn't find it. Figured that some busboy stole it and didn't even realize what he had. Probably pawned it for $10.00.

Sure enough, I bought a replacement, the current 8X20B model, the older one no longer being made. And then I found the old one in my closet. It'd evidently fallen out of my coat, but at home, when I hung up the coat. It was behind a box, so I hadn't seen it on the rug there. But I am glad to have both monoculars. Which I carry depends on what I'm doing that day.

I was sorry to hear from a friend last month that he was attending a function for a cutlery collectors group and had lost his monocular like my older one. He and his wife had stayed in several motels and he has no idea where he may have left that wonderful little 6X20B. I know how he must feel. Even if they still made that model, they weren't/aren't cheap.

BTW, I carried that in a coat with a zipper on the pocket. But when I had to replace the coat, I couldn't find a similar one with zippered pockets. I do now try to frequently check my pockets and if I'm leaving a taxi or the coat is in my grocery cart, I look to see if anything has fallen out.
 
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arjay said:
Can't Remember Stuff- CRS.
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Well, I guess that applies to everyone but that NYC detective played by Poppy Montgomery on, "Unforgettable." She has a photographic memory.

It's actually one of the better things on TV.

Poppy is Australian, but does a great US accent. But what cracks me up is that Asian detective with the pronounced NYC accent.

Don't, uh, forget to watch. You may like it.
 
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