How do I get it through to the missus...
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... That something that is 2m out of place is not "just over there", it's Lost! :mad::mad::mad:
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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... That something that is 2m out of place is not "just over there", it's Lost! :mad::mad::mad:
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
Herself is the same: when she is finished using something, she puts it down. And that's it - whatever it was remains where she last used it. So if my pliers are missing, they could be in the greenhouse (last used to pull up something prickly), the shed (last used as a hammer), the bedroom (last used as a paperweight), the kitchen (fish bones), the bathroom (I didn't ask), or ... well, anywhere really. And she objected vociferously when I wanted to put a lock on the tool-room-under-the-stairs ... :sigh:
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Herself is the same: when she is finished using something, she puts it down. And that's it - whatever it was remains where she last used it. So if my pliers are missing, they could be in the greenhouse (last used to pull up something prickly), the shed (last used as a hammer), the bedroom (last used as a paperweight), the kitchen (fish bones), the bathroom (I didn't ask), or ... well, anywhere really. And she objected vociferously when I wanted to put a lock on the tool-room-under-the-stairs ... :sigh:
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
OriginalGriff wrote:
And she objected vociferously when I wanted to put a lock on the tool-room-under-the-stairs ... :sigh:
Oh, it's not that long until every working surface in my garage/workshop will be covered with vegetables. Then in winter, she'll start complaining that I didn't fix/make all the things she wanted fixed/made when the weather was good. It's an annual ritual, like burning a guy alive in a wicker man.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Herself is the same: when she is finished using something, she puts it down. And that's it - whatever it was remains where she last used it. So if my pliers are missing, they could be in the greenhouse (last used to pull up something prickly), the shed (last used as a hammer), the bedroom (last used as a paperweight), the kitchen (fish bones), the bathroom (I didn't ask), or ... well, anywhere really. And she objected vociferously when I wanted to put a lock on the tool-room-under-the-stairs ... :sigh:
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
OriginalGriff wrote:
when she is finished using something, she puts it down
My wife is the same. When she's done using an object, she puts it somewhere out of immediate view. Since her short-term memory no longer works thanks to a couple strokes, the object is now no longer part of her universe. Later when it bubbles back up for some reason she calls on her offline memory (aka me) to remember where she put it.
Software Zen:
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Herself is the same: when she is finished using something, she puts it down. And that's it - whatever it was remains where she last used it. So if my pliers are missing, they could be in the greenhouse (last used to pull up something prickly), the shed (last used as a hammer), the bedroom (last used as a paperweight), the kitchen (fish bones), the bathroom (I didn't ask), or ... well, anywhere really. And she objected vociferously when I wanted to put a lock on the tool-room-under-the-stairs ... :sigh:
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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OriginalGriff wrote:
the bedroom (last used as a paperweight)
Thank god you qualified that statement, I was a bit concerned at first!
A Fine is a Tax for doing something wrong A Tax is a Fine for doing something good.
For mine, it's bloody USB charging cables!!! She comes and nicks mine out my office, then plugs them in to charge her iPad/Phone/Speaker/whatever (We have electrical outlets on the walls with built in USB sockets), then leaves them lying about in the living room, or where ever she used them. In the mean time, I can never find one when I need one, so I go to our local pound/dollar store buy a bunch more, put them in my office, then when she wants one she comes and raids my office again. I looked downstairs in the living room and within 30 seconds I found 5 under the sofa, another 10 under chairs and behind furniture and 7 in the drawer where she keeps all her misc junk, that's 20 cables all within less than a meter of where she was sitting/sits and she still comes trudging upstairs to my office, and just takes cables off my desk. Drives me bloody nuts. I've actually use a hot glue gun to seal around one of my charge cables where it's plugged into the back of the PC (So it's effectively glued to the PC) just so I have at least one she can't take...
