Now where did I put that.... D'oh!!!!

i'm so happy for you dear.........

 We all have Chamealeon tools.

                                     doc

Congratulations on your "senior" moment.

Funny, though, I've been having those since I was twelve…You're never too young for a dose of senility

Now as for tools having sneaky, conniving, and mischevious personalities:

As many of you know, I'm a retired scientist. My mind is cold, analytical, unfeeling, and totally objective, and I have the credentials and certifications to prove it. It is my considered, professional, scientific opinion that: 

Tools have sneaky, conniving, and mischevious personalities.  Anyone who thinks otherwise has never so much as picked up a tool, and probably wouldn't know which end to hold.

And yes, my tongue is so firmly in my cheek I'm licking my ear…

Gee Wiz. For a long, long time, I have been telling everyone that the first thing that goes as you get older is ...........ummmmmmm............ummmmmmmm............Oh S..., I can't remember.

Jim

It's nice to know I'm not alone, and I think  Triarius  is on to something.

I've accidentally knocked parts/tools into an inappropriately placed trash can.  Didn't realize it until a month later and by then...   to late.

What I really hate is when I'm down on all 4's looking for something and my Dog comes over to see "What's Up".   I Love her, but they are called Huskies for a reason.

Anyway, Good Luck with the gettn' old thing.

smeagol the vile wrote:

your not alone with that, I have lost tools I set down a few moments before RIGHT NEXT TO ME.  They just disapear.  Also, Im 22 as well, what a co-in-key-dink

Oh, those are just the gremlins. Appease them with a lost part (one you weren't going to use, anyway, but don't let them know.) Drop said part somewhere, or tweezerpult it (even better). Search frantically for five minutes, cussing vociferously. The gremlins will be appeased and give your tool back. Works every time. But you have to be careful. If you lose a part you need, you'll wind up getting a tool back that you lost a week ago, and just bought a replacement. Since you now have two tools, the gremlins will feel perfectly justified keeping the vital part.

Spent ten minutes staring at my bench this morning, looking for the X-Acto knife that was in my freakin' hand...

Better open a window...

Hans von Hammer wrote:

Spent ten minutes staring at my bench this morning, looking for the X-Acto knife that was in my freakin' hand... Better open a window...

About solvent fumes, warned you I did! (Closest we've got to a Yoda smiley…)

Hans von Hammer wrote:

Spent ten minutes staring at my bench this morning, looking for the X-Acto knife that was in my freakin' hand... Better open a window...

Ahh ha ha ha. I know that feeling. I do it with my cell all of the time.

smeagol the vile wrote:

Soon hans is gona be that old guy lookIng for his glasses while there onhis head

Been doin' THAT since about '96...

RadMax8 wrote:

I may only be 22, but I feel like my mind is 92 sometimes!!!!!!!

Just wait until you hit 50!

Mike

Here's one for you...

Realize you have to go the bathroom, decide to throw some empty container away while your at it...get up off the couch, separate the recyclable from the garbage, throw away the garbage, place the recyclable into the bin then....wait for it..... sit back down on the couch! 

This just happened to me - I swear it! 

 Oh, I'm almost 46!

I've noticed that more and more over the last few years that I spend a lot of time wondering into a room, looking around and then asking "what the heck did I come in here for?" and then wondering out - only to go back in 5 minutes later to get what I wanted in the first place.

And my wife thinks it's funnier than hell when I spend 15 minutes tearing a room apart screaming "have you seen my glasses?"  And then discover them hooked in the neck of my T-shirt - now when I see her grin I just look down. (she informed me years ago if my Butt wasn't attached, I'd lose it)

I have spent so much time looking for tools that are right in front of me on my bench I think if the US government were to make uniform camo from a photo of my bench, a GI could walk up to the enemy and shoot him in the head with a hand gun.

Hans von Hammer wrote:

Ditto... I lost the vertical stab for a P-6E I was working on...  After I spent about two hours of cutting, shaping, and sanding, making a new part out of sheet-stock and gluing it in place, I found the kit part.  Where?  In the damn box...

aaahhhh hans, dont you hate that!!! funny none the less!!