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The law of lost things
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It is a well known fact that if you lose something not particularly important then it will inevitably turn up when you are looking for something else.

However, if it is an important thing then it will only turn up after you have purchased a replacement.

Last week SWMBO lost the padlock key for our allotment shed. She had locked it and somehow managed to lose the key, complete with posh strawberry keyring, during the 100 yard journey from the allotment to our house. For the next few days she retraced her steps looking for the errant item without success. Ah well, never mind, we will have to get a new padlock - easier said than done, the thing resisted all my attempts to hacksaw it off so now we have to buy a complete new bolt assembly as well as a lock.

Yesterday we purchased the relevant bits and I fitted them to the shed. I also bought a replacement strawberry key ring for her.

Today I was strimming the grass round the back garden pond when there was a loud metallic noise and a piece of metal shot out from just beside a small paving slab - it was the aforementioned key and its strawberry! Banghead Banghead Banghead Cussing Cussing Cussing

How it got there is a complete mystery as she had not gone near that part of the garden when she had returned from the allotment.

Life gets tedious sometimes don't it?
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Lost things...eventually turn up in the last place you look  Thumbup

Life is like a box of Slot cars... Cool Drinkingcheers
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Any pets or wild animals that may have found it and carried it to that spot?
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(15th-Apr-22, 02:48 PM)CMOTD Wrote:  she had not gone near that part of the garden when she had returned from the allotment.

that old chestnut 
or should i say strawberry  Bigsmile
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This is comparable to the rule of things that you store away because "they might be useful" at some point.

You keep them for five years before finally throwing them away, only to find the perfect use two weeks later.
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(15th-Apr-22, 06:05 PM)JasonB Wrote:  This is comparable to the rule of things that you store away because "they might be useful" at some point.

You keep them for five years before finally throwing them away, only to find the perfect use two weeks later.

Not forgetting of course the rule of 'things you store away in a special place not to forget'...only to forget where that place was but you know you've definitely got them in a special place  Tappingfoot

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Down here all of the above situations fall under the umbrella known as, "Sod's law."

Who was Sod? Some old guy with lots of experience I guess.
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Yoiu guys are doing well - I can move from one room to the other and forget why I am there!! What were we talking about again??
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in a similar way, never bloody tidy up... once you do you will never find the item you want or need, have a bomb site and everything can be found instantly... yet I still proceed to tidy up, I will never learn 


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I was warned that once I get into T-jets. I will lose shoe springs like crazy. They will fly across the room never to be seen again. So I bought 2-dozen in advance of working on my first chassis ($2.50 per dozen). I've lost one spring in two years. Anyone need a spare?

I don't smoke for many years now. But when I did. The best way to have a bus arrive early while waiting at the bus-stop was to light up a smoke. The bus would instantly show up so you had to ditch it. The bus-stop was the only time none-smokers liked smokers around them. Everyone loves it when the bus shows up early when it's minus-20 degrees outside.
The law of averages works against you no matter what you do. I'm not paranoid. I simply think everyone is out to get me.  Tease
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