And the dunce award goes to: Roxy!
Apr. 26th, 2009 07:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
roxybisquaintThank you. Thank you. It's not often that I win an award like this, but today, I truly think I earned it.
I never lose things. I'm not all freakishly neat and organized or anything (in fact, quite the opposite), but I do have very specific places that I put stuff I use all the time. Car keys get hung on the hook on the side of my kitchen cabinet, for example, and my sunglasses go on the dining room sideboard. Well it was a mega sunny day today, so naturally I went to grab my sunglasses before I headed out. Hmm. That's odd. They're not where I always put them.
These are prescription sunglasses, so I make sure to put them in their case to prevent my giant crazy cat from eating them (had to buy a new lens for my regular glasses a month after I got them last year thanks to his pointy teeth). And since he can't get at them, he's quite fond of knocking the case on the floor. I often find it under the sideboard or under the dining room table. Not today. I searched everywhere in the house and in our cars. They were nowhere to be found.
I'd just about given up hope, thinking I'd somehow dropped them somewhere when we were out. Then I saw my cowboy hat sitting on the dining room sideboard and it all came back to me... I'd put them under the hat so the cat wouldn't knock them onto the floor. That alone could qualify me for a dunce award, but it gets better. When I did that, I had this exact thought: "This is probably a bad idea because I'm totally going to forget they're under there."
*Dunce*
I never lose things. I'm not all freakishly neat and organized or anything (in fact, quite the opposite), but I do have very specific places that I put stuff I use all the time. Car keys get hung on the hook on the side of my kitchen cabinet, for example, and my sunglasses go on the dining room sideboard. Well it was a mega sunny day today, so naturally I went to grab my sunglasses before I headed out. Hmm. That's odd. They're not where I always put them.
These are prescription sunglasses, so I make sure to put them in their case to prevent my giant crazy cat from eating them (had to buy a new lens for my regular glasses a month after I got them last year thanks to his pointy teeth). And since he can't get at them, he's quite fond of knocking the case on the floor. I often find it under the sideboard or under the dining room table. Not today. I searched everywhere in the house and in our cars. They were nowhere to be found.
I'd just about given up hope, thinking I'd somehow dropped them somewhere when we were out. Then I saw my cowboy hat sitting on the dining room sideboard and it all came back to me... I'd put them under the hat so the cat wouldn't knock them onto the floor. That alone could qualify me for a dunce award, but it gets better. When I did that, I had this exact thought: "This is probably a bad idea because I'm totally going to forget they're under there."
*Dunce*
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on 2009-04-27 12:08 am (UTC):D
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on 2009-04-29 03:24 am (UTC)no subject
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on 2009-04-27 12:43 pm (UTC)LOL. I do this kinda stuff all the time. I once spent at least 20 minutes searching for my keys and the whole time they were in my hand. D'oh!!
I also put things in safe places and forget where the safe place is. Damn, that reminds me, I need to go look for that that gadget I stuck in a safe place...
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on 2009-04-29 03:27 am (UTC)no subject
on 2009-04-29 03:25 am (UTC)And you weren't on any hallucinogens at the time? Okay then, you win a dunce award.
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on 2009-04-27 03:00 pm (UTC)At least your keys were inside. Cat came home the other day and left her house keys (with car keys attached) on the bin outside our back door overnight. She's also left them hanging out of the padlock on our garage door while we went out...and she doesn't even have the excuse of working a revolving shift pattern...
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on 2009-04-28 06:54 am (UTC)I hear you. I've forgotten entire conversations due to sleep deprivation before, been reduced to listing about disoriented after only getting a couple hours' sleep in as many days, all sorts of crazy stuff.
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on 2009-04-29 03:32 am (UTC)no subject
on 2009-04-29 06:40 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2009-04-28 06:43 am (UTC)What's really embarassing is if I get to the end of a work shift and realize I'd forgotten to put something away when I find it in my pocket as I'm changing. Then I have to hand it over to my relief with a big "Whoops!"
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on 2009-04-29 03:59 am (UTC)