Featured Folks Of Interest If my head weren't attached I'd lose it

I have a box for all my wiring, and I was putting my fuse panel back together and I couldn't find my fuses. I knew I put them in a baggie in the box but for the life of me couldn't find them. I swear I dumped out that box twice looking for them and nothing.
This morning we were getting ready to go to the store I kind of glanced over at the box and move the fuse panel and right there near the top was this damn little baggie of fuses. I swear 95% of the time needed in any project that I do is looking for the part or tool I just set there.

 

Not weren’t…..wasn’t…..

 

You`re not losing it, your gremlin just put it back, they like to mess with us that way. Now if mine would just bring back my missing new sock, I`ve been waiting for years.

 

You think it bad now, just wait 35 years till you’re 75 like me. I finally learned to put things back where they belong, increases my success rate from 25% to maybe 60% on a good day.

 

What!? You mean it's not supposed to be that way?

 

How bout when you forget what you're looking for?

 

That's nothing...........after driving 7 miles with the emergency brake on I now have a tag on the brake lever that I attach to the ignition switch whenever I use the brake. This tells me to release the lever BEFORE driving off. Yes, I'm 80 and 3/4.

 

LOL, Happens to me all the time, that takes me from a 50% chance of finding something, down to 0%...just standing there with a stupid puzzled look on my face.

 

What were we talking about?

 

Maybe not the worst that I've done,
but once I was missing keys to 2 of my cars.
The action was, going on the road for extended periods,
I'd decided to secure them where no one would look.
It took more than ten years until I stumbled onto them.
Yes I had searched all the neat places that I could imagine.

 

You're alright - happens to the best of us but......when you start finding your car keys in the fridge though, you're family is probably gonna take you to see a professional, who'll give you a simple little test......

 

or the keys you can't find that are in your hand.

 

Try looking all over the house and the garage for your cell phone, and then finding it in your hand. But, since I remember how stupid that was, that means I'm OK, right? Right?

 

I like to look for my glasses....when they're on top my head

 

Or looking all over for your glasses, finding them and go to put them on only to find that your already wearing glasses

 

You know he won't bring the sock back until you throw the other one away, right...?

 

I am 90 +and i////// forgot what i was going to say.

 

I find that the easiest way to find something that you have squirreled away somewhere in the bowels of the workshop, is to go out and buy a new one. Within 15 minutes of putting the new one in it's safe spot, the old one will re-surface.

 

do that often!

 

I always love it when I'm by the toolbox and have no clue why I went there, sure adds to the step count daily.

 

Went to outa town car show. Hid house key in the garage. Got two days later couldn’t find the hidden keys. Gave up took the disc grinder cut the handle off drill screws out. Finally got into the house. Back to the garage to get a dust pan to clean my mess. There is the keys under the dust pan.

 

Every day in the shop is Christmas.
I'm always finding stuff I forgot I had or couldn't find when I needed it.

 

I spend more time looking for tools and parts I just had than I do working. Lately I have figured out that I probably had mild ADD all of my life as I have always had a bad case of "oh Squirrel" and get distracted from what I am doing all to easy. My wife and my former coworkers would get upset with me because when I am doing my best to concentrate on what I am doing I tend to shut out the rest of the world so I get things right. If I am typing instructions for someone on here to do a task on their car that they asked about and have to concentrate and my wife babbles something she gets pissed because I didn't hear what she said and that is because I am concentrating and don't want to break my train of thought.
For years when I worked in various shops I almost always had a TV tray to set my tools that I was using at the moment on so I knew where they were and to keep me from setting them on the car. That helps a ton with small hand tools both in not losing them but knowing right where they are.

 

As I was reading this earlier today I thought about posting about my search yesterday for my "welpers" (Mig welding pliers, I had just used them....laid 'em down and just plain couldn't find them. Today I was getting ready to get back on the task I'd started and darn............I had laid them on the cowl of the vehicle I was getting ready to weld on. Then I forgot where some other tools went

 

Lost my glasses 6 months ago that are always on my nose. Searched the place for two weeks. Even took a hanger apart to fish for them in the toilet. Gave up and started wearing an old pair.
Decided to replace them and went in for an eye exam to replace them.
The doctor told me afterward shes taken care of my glass problem. I said how’s that?
She said you don’t need them anymore with your cataract surgery you’ll never wear glasses again.

 

I feel that. I swear somedays there's a million things going through my head at one time combined with a small work/ storage space things get lost easily

 

ARP makes excellent head studs, in case it gets loose.

 

AARP

 

that weren't the reply he was huntin' for

you have to be hunting for something else to find what you were looking for the other day,,,,,

 

Just the other day I was looking for something I was sure I'd put in a certain place. Now I can't even remember what it was I was looking for, or if I found it or not.

In a few days, maybe I'll have the answer to both questions (or at least one answer). If I don't have the answers by then, I have determined that it must not have been important anyway. These days, I'm finding there are a growing number of things that must not have been important...