So I bought a 3" engineer's square for tool set-up. Used it a couple of weeks ago. Needed it today, but damn if the box isn't empty. Must have set it down someplace (as usual) and can't find. Of course, it will turn up next week.

Larry

On Sat, 29 Jun 2013 16:39:21 -0700, Gramp's shop wrote:

So I bought a 3" engineer's square for tool set-up. Used it a couple of
weeks ago. Needed it today, but damn if the box isn't empty. Must have
set it down someplace (as usual) and can't find. Of course, it will
turn up next week.

Larry

You know that it is hiding in plain sight, probably mocking your
inability to see it.

These days I lose stuff in arms reach.

basilisk

"Gramp's shop" wrote:


So I bought a 3" engineer's square for tool set-up. Used it a
couple of weeks ago. Needed it today, but damn if the box isn't
empty. Must have set it down someplace (as usual) and can't find.
Of course, it will turn up next week.
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There was a time in my life that I passed out small screwdrivers that
also had a small magnet on one end, screwdriver on the other to
customers.

I advised the customer that each screwdriver was also supplied with a
pair of invisible legs that allowed the screwdrivers to disappear.

This happened frequently.

Maybe your square also has a similar set of legs.

Lew

basilisk wrote:
On Sat, 29 Jun 2013 16:39:21 -0700, Gramp's shop wrote:

So I bought a 3" engineer's square for tool set-up. Used it a
couple of weeks ago. Needed it today, but damn if the box isn't
empty. Must have set it down someplace (as usual) and can't find.
Of course, it will turn up next week.

Larry

You know that it is hiding in plain sight, probably mocking your
inability to see it.

These days I lose stuff in arms reach.


I always find things in the last place that I looked for them. That's not
what ****es me off though, what ****es me off is the times that I had
already looked there...

--

-Mike-

"Mike Marlow" wrote in
:


I always find things in the last place that I looked for them. That's
not what ****es me off though, what ****es me off is the times that I
had already looked there...


My personal theory is that scientists have developed invisibility/cloaking
technology, but they're not very good at aiming it yet. That's why you can
look in the same place 3 times and not see the thing you're looking for.

Puckdropper
--
Make it to fit, don't make it fit.

basilisk wrote in news:EmKzt.82120$pt1.27949@en-
nntp-01.dc1.easynews.com:


You know that it is hiding in plain sight, probably mocking your
inability to see it.

These days I lose stuff in arms reach.

basilisk

I've been doing that since I was very young. I put something down and have
to look for it a few minutes later. It usually hasn't gone anywhere, I
just can't find it.

It's something you don't grow out of...

Puckdropper
--
Make it to fit, don't make it fit.

Hum -

The Sun spit out three massive blasts in one day! It is sliding into a
different mode ???? Hope not as the extra heat from it we don't need.

Since the blasts were filled with massive amounts of all sorts of
particles - wonder if a space rift didn't open it up and suck in your
square and lots of other stuff.

Martin

On 6/29/2013 6:39 PM, Gramp's shop wrote:
So I bought a 3" engineer's square for tool set-up. Used it a couple of weeks ago. Needed it today, but damn if the box isn't empty. Must have set it down someplace (as usual) and can't find. Of course, it will turn up next week.

Larry

On 6/29/2013 8:29 PM, Puckdropper wrote:
"Mike wrote in
:


I always find things in the last place that I looked for them. That's
not what ****es me off though, what ****es me off is the times that I
had already looked there...


My personal theory is that scientists have developed invisibility/cloaking
technology, but they're not very good at aiming it yet. That's why you can
look in the same place 3 times and not see the thing you're looking for.

Puckdropper


Nah. It's just the perversity of inanimate objects.

On 6/29/2013 4:39 PM, Gramp's shop wrote:
So I bought a 3" engineer's square for tool set-up. Used it a couple of weeks ago. Needed it today, but damn if the box isn't empty. Must have set it down someplace (as usual) and can't find. Of course, it will turn up next week.

Larry

All tools need a mate. That's why the minute you buy the replacement,
the original will show up. Aging ain't for sissies. Sigh.
mahalo,
jo4hn

On 30 Jun 2013 01:29:35 GMT, Puckdropper
puckdropper(at)yahoo(dot)com wrote:

"Mike Marlow" wrote in
:


I always find things in the last place that I looked for them. That's
not what ****es me off though, what ****es me off is the times that I
had already looked there...


My personal theory is that scientists have developed invisibility/cloaking
technology, but they're not very good at aiming it yet. That's why you can
look in the same place 3 times and not see the thing you're looking for.

Puckdropper

Glad it's not just me. I thought that's why you had 2 or 3 of every
thing. It started with me when I had everything in storage. It was
easier to buy another then find it. No were not talking table saws I
can always find it.

Mike M

In article ,
Mike M wrote:
On 30 Jun 2013 01:29:35 GMT, Puckdropper
puckdropper(at)yahoo(dot)com wrote:

"Mike Marlow" wrote in
:


I always find things in the last place that I looked for them. That's
not what ****es me off though, what ****es me off is the times that I
had already looked there...


My personal theory is that scientists have developed invisibility/cloaking
technology, but they're not very good at aiming it yet. That's why you can
look in the same place 3 times and not see the thing you're looking for.

Puckdropper

Glad it's not just me. I thought that's why you had 2 or 3 of every
thing. It started with me when I had everything in storage. It was
easier to buy another then find it. No were not talking table saws I
can always find it.

Mike M

Also remember that modern science has never abolutely proven that things
cannot just disappear...


--
There is always an easy solution to every human problem -- neat,
plausible, and wrong." (H L Mencken)

Larry W. - Baltimore Maryland - lwasserm(a)sdf. lonestar. org

On 6/29/2013 7:39 PM, Gramp's shop wrote:

Of course, it will turn up next week.

Nope. Not until you buy a new one.

"Greg Guarino" wrote in message ...

On 6/29/2013 7:39 PM, Gramp's shop wrote:

Of course, it will turn up next week.

Nope. Not until you buy a new one.

When I was a kid, after not being able to find a tool my father often bought
hand tools such as tape measures, hammers, screw drivers, etc. 2 or more at
a time so that one could be found when needed... After major cleanups the
tool chests were over flowing with same... the missing and newly bought
combined! Me... after that experience it is a rarity that I don't put a tool
away!

John

On Tue, 02 Jul 2013 08:09:41 -0400, Greg Guarino
Of course, it will turn up next week.
Nope. Not until you buy a new one.

And there's a corollary to buying a new one. It states that as long as
you save the receipt so you can return the second one unused when you
find the first one ~ you'll never find the first one.

In other words, you have to ding, dent and scrape the second one
before you'll ever have a chance to find the first one.