Into Thin Air..
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Into Thin Air..
I purchased a new-to-me Climate Control Module back around September and now that I've got time, I can't seem to find this thing anywhere. Literally anywhere.
This prompted me to create this thread and ask; What is the most inexplicable part/piece of equipment that has disappeared on you?
This prompted me to create this thread and ask; What is the most inexplicable part/piece of equipment that has disappeared on you?
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10mm, 14mm, 1/2 inch, and 12mm sockets. Any tool that I really need and just had my hands on 5 minutes ago.
I used to stockpile parts for my Toyota only to not be able to find the particular part I wanted when it came time to install it.
I used to stockpile parts for my Toyota only to not be able to find the particular part I wanted when it came time to install it.
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I'm convinced my tape measures exist in they're own plane of reality and show up randomly in places around my house and shop that don't make sense. (That, or my wife uses them without asking. Only to leave them wherever she needed it, and then forget where that place is)
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My brain, aka my memory. It has, well and truly, "inexplicably disappeared". 
I'm sure you guys think the stories of old people walking into a room and then wondering why they went there are funny. Well, us old folk still joke about them, but that's as Dad used to say "laughing to keep from crying".
This link describes it well, and I truly have Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder: Aging Humor at Humor Matters.
I'm sure you guys think the stories of old people walking into a room and then wondering why they went there are funny. Well, us old folk still joke about them, but that's as Dad used to say "laughing to keep from crying".
This link describes it well, and I truly have Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder: Aging Humor at Humor Matters.
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I keep some florescent orange spray paint around to mark tools. Put a stripe on them with my initials. Makes it easier to see that shovel my kids left in the yard but what I really like is now I can see all those black tools after I set them down in the engine bay or drop them in the driveway. Black "Professional Grade" screwdrivers... that didn't work out too well.
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Umbrellas, sunglasses, hair ties, 10mm sockets, cheapo HF voltmeters (they usually re-appear), the right word for something sometimes. The right USB cable for whatever device I'm monkeying with. Tape measures. Forehead flashlights. Tire gauges. Disappearing reading glasses used to haunt me; bifocals made that an non-issue.
And of course, every time I'm looking for one of the above, I bump into several (sometimes too many) of the others.
Lately I can't find my &$#%@! OBD-II splitter, so I can't connect my AF and SGII on the Powerstrokes at the same time. You can bet, if I give up and order another one tonight, it'll turn up first thing tomorrow.
And of course, every time I'm looking for one of the above, I bump into several (sometimes too many) of the others.
Lately I can't find my &$#%@! OBD-II splitter, so I can't connect my AF and SGII on the Powerstrokes at the same time. You can bet, if I give up and order another one tonight, it'll turn up first thing tomorrow.
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This is the WORST because I alway manage to lose the things I accidentally found.
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I usually get llbean gift card for christmas so I end up buying stuff there around December January. So I had wanted a new sleeping pad, went out bought it, or at least I thought I did. Could remember if I ever ended up buying it or not when I finally wanted to use it. Did I imagine buying it? Was is stored in the basement somewhere and I just kept simply overlooking it. Long story short, some years later, my mother in law called me up to ask if she could use it cause it had been in the closet for the past few years.
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I said, “Hey Senorita that’s astute”
I said, Why don’t we get together
And call ourselves an institute?”
So, why don't you look in one more place after you find it?
I said, Why don’t we get together
And call ourselves an institute?”
So, why don't you look in one more place after you find it?
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I often look in one more spot after I find something just so I can say it wasn't in the last place I looked.
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This has happened to me before; I've spent half an hour looking for a tool I had just used 5 minutes prior but I couldn't find where I put it... and it was right in front of me... but I couldn't see it... *sigh*
