Where do they go?

Do you ever have items that mysteriously go missing, never to surface again? I certainly seem to.

Take today, for example.

There I was at 'Old Lady' badminton with my £1 coin tucked into my racket cover all ready and willing to pay. I opened the cover and the £1 dropped out. I heard it drop onto the floor and a couple of others heard it too, but could any of us find it? Absolutely not. It had disappeared into the ether never to be found by me again. Luckily I had another so didn't have to beg or borrow.

In the afternoon my eyes were tired and a bit sore, so I took my contact lenses out and put them in the lens case and wore my glasses until it was time to go to bowls. I took the right contact lens out and put it in my eye. It jumped out and then, there it was... gone... disappeared. I put my glasses back on and looked and looked but it was nowhere to be seen. I gave up and put a new one in.

And that was just today. So far this year I've lost a book, a pair of socks and a letter, and that's just in the last couple of weeks. They were there and then they weren't. Scary!

But what I want to know is, where do these things disappear to? Is it to an alternative reality where there's a mound of ever growing items that have skipped from this dimension into another? Or some other equally bizarre explanation? Or maybe a simple explanation?

Anyway, if you have any ideas do let me know. I'm finding myself quite frustrated at all these losses. Mind you, if I carry on at this rate, by the end of 2013, the clearing out of 1/3rd of the 'stuff' that I promised myself I'd get rid of this year will be done for me. Maybe I shouldn't complain!