@didnthurt - we have a winner. Singletrack coffee for you?
Of course I didn't check the rubber seal in the washing machine door the first time I checked did I?
@everyoneelse - some great ideas for next time I lose something. I'll check back this thread before I start looking.
... now, where on earth did the big stainless bolt that was also in the seal come from?
My OH lost her keys about 2 months ago.
I only found this out a month later
Still not found them (or made any real effort to look for them)
relying on me being WFH to get in and out, for the most part.
Its like living with a 10 yr old.
I lost a set of front door keys a couple of years ago - we'd headed off on holiday, had them to get back into the house then nothing. Changed the locks as was thinking they may still have been around on the street.
A year later, put on my day rucksack, something's a bit pointy in the inside - front door keys, I'd meant to put them in the small pocket in top of sack but they must have missed and dropped inside the foam padding sleeve inside the sack.
Drove out to a race once, with the bikes on the roof, secured with a cable lock. Got there, no key. Shoot.
Eventually found it on the roof gutter (back when cars had gutters). How it had stayed there along 40 miles of bumpy back roads.
Don't mention an engagement and wedding ring that got lost. We were away so wife hid them in an old sock. some weeks later, wife went to find the 'sock' - gone. She then remembered she'd had a clear out and chucked the socks ! Argh.
Went through the whole claim, valuations, then found gold had shot up over our insured value. Eventually got replacements. Roll on a few years and wife fesses up she's just found the rings by 'accident'
Roll on a few years and wife fesses up she’s just found the rings by ‘accident’
Oopsie!
Something else I have on my keyring is a little metal fob thing that takes several of those luminous Tritium glow-tubes. It means that if I’m up and about in the morning when it’s dark, or any time really, I can see exactly where my keys are and can put my hand on them straight away without putting the light on. I’ve got two main sets of keys, one which is my car key, house key, plus things like hearing protection, and the other doesn’t have the car key, and I have two Tritium fobs with different coloured tubes in, means I don’t grab the wrong ones in the dark.
https://www.tecaccessories.com/collections/tritium-isotope-fobs
I really want the isotope fob thingy now.
I can see exactly where my keys are and can put my hand on them straight away without putting the light on.
I have an image of you stumbling over furniture, stubbing several toes and making enough noise to wake the dead, as you make your way across a darkened room with your eyes firmly fixed on your Fobs. A voice in the background wearily saying "Oh, FFS, just turn the light on!"
Oh I need to get one of those fobs, our head of radiological protection will LOVE me.
I have an image of you stumbling over furniture, stubbing several toes and making enough noise to wake the dead, as you make your way across a darkened room with your eyes firmly fixed on your Fobs. A voice in the background wearily saying “Oh, FFS, just turn the light on!”
Well, they’re always on the dressing table, which is just at the foot of the bed, and sadly I now have nobody to share the bed with. 😢
