Wednesday 9 January 2013

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!


11 comments:

  1. I lose teaspoons at an alarming rate. And they never re-appear. I think you're right there must be an alternative reality somewhere. Or a teaspoon thief.Have you read Elizabeth Bishop's villanelle 'One Art'?

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    1. Just read it. It felt to me like it was about dementia. Are you trying to tell me something?!

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    2. Ha ha! Not at all! I don't interpret it that way at all. Whenever I lose something the refrain pops into my mind and you reminded me of it. Then again ...

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  2. I think there's a parallel universe full of odd socks and teaspoons. Spooky.

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    1. Weirdly, Karen, your post didn't show up until today (13th) I think it must have wandered over 'there' too!

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    2. That is strange. I might have posted from my phone which does seem to operate in a parallel universe most of the time!

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  3. I think you must have the borrowers living with you. That's the book your post made me think of.

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    1. Do you think they'll ever give them back tho, Lizzie? That's what I want to know.

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    2. Not according to the books. The borrowing part never means returning, just not stealing!

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    3. The books, Lizzie, as far as I know are fiction, whereas my 'losing' things is fact! :)

      Anyway, if anyone in an alternative reality is reading this... please give me my stuff back. Thank you!

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