Miscellaneous Losing things (moved posts)

[Colin the Bear]

I don't look for things. I think for them.

 

[Guenne]

I think there is a parallel to when one loses something around the house. When you just can't find something and you've looked "everywhere". One finds those things, more often than not, when one looks in a place one knew it could not be.

Reminds me of a story in a book by Paul Watzlawick (The Pursuit of Unhappiness) where a drunken person searches his carkeys at a street lamp at night.

A policeman comes over and asks what he would do.
He says he would look for his lost carkeys. So they both look for the key.
After a while, the officer asks the man if he would be sure he lost his keys here.
No, says the man. Over there, but there it is too dark to search.

 

[Yansalis]

Reminds me of a story in a book by Paul Watzlawick (The Pursuit of Unhappiness) where a drunken person searches his carkeys at a street lamp at night.

Since that book came out in 1983 it may well be the source for that story, which is funny, but different.

Ever heard of someone finding their car keys in the refrigerator? 🙂

 

[Dr G]

One finds those things, more often than not, when one looks in a place one knew it could not be.

I usually find things in the last place I look.

 

[Colin the Bear]

Since that book came out in 1983 it may well be the source for that story, which is funny, but different.

Ever heard of someone finding their car keys in the refrigerator? 🙂

If there's cheese on the coffee table, the tv remote will be in the fridge.

 

[BigMartin]

I usually find things in the last place I look.

I quite often find them in the first place. But not until I've looked everywhere else and gone back to the beginning in desperation.

 

[rhysonsax]

I quite often find them in the first place. But not until I've looked everywhere else and gone back to the beginning in desperation.

I recently lost my Zoom H2n digital recorder and my Jazz Hat that I had taken out on a gig last summer. Normally they live in my gig backpack, in a special pocket. I looked everywhere I could think of and then in desperation emailed the organisers of that gig to see if anyone had discovered my missing things. No luck.

I kept looking in other pockets of the backpack, everywhere in my study where I keep it, everywhere in the room where I practice.

Then last Friday I wanted them for a gig at the local Beer Festival and I had one final look in the backpack - there they both were in the pocket where they always live.

I suspect it was my wife, messing with my mind.

Rhys

 

[Colin the Bear]

It's bad enough when that happens in a family home but when it happens and you live alone, it's just a bit freaky. 😳

 

[Pete Thomas]

We no longer discussing the topic?

(Expensive saxophone lessons!)

 

[greenstripe]

We no longer discussing the topic?

(Expensive saxophone lessons!)

No, some of the forum members are giving lessons for free!

 

[Greg Strange]

It would be a rare occasion on this forum if threads stayed on topic...

Greg S.

 

[eb424]

It would be a rare occasion on this forum if threads stayed on topic...

Greg S.

Or if anyone gave free lessons...

 

[eb424]

No, some of the forum members are giving lessons for free!

Or answering an enthusiastic players problem...