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True Dough

(17,302 posts)
Mon Mar 6, 2017, 02:04 PM Mar 2017

Do you know where your _______ is?

One of the "joys" of married life. My wife likes to move things around. Today's example: I go to the cabinet where we keep the mixing bowls so I can get some batter started for a waffle. No mixing bowls! I know she baked a pie yesterday, so she would have used at least one bowl. But no sign of any of them now -- none in the sink or the dishwasher either.

She left for work before I started digging around for them and I didn't bother calling her to ask where she put them because she's in meetings first thing in the morning.

You know, our kitchen isn't enormous. Average-sized, at best. I poked through various cupboards but couldn't find the damn mixing bowls. Of course I am a man, so I could have been staring right at them and just didn't recognize them in their new setting.

What was wrong with their old location? They'd been there for several months!

Every time she does this, I wind up going to the old spot first anyway. I'm a creature of habit.

The living room furniture is another example. It can't stay in the same place for more than a month, well, maybe six weeks. Then it has to be rearranged. Fortunately I have not yet tumbled onto the bare floor where my comfy recliner used to sit.

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Do you know where your _______ is? (Original Post) True Dough Mar 2017 OP
This is an almost daily conversation in my house OriginalGeek Mar 2017 #1
Yes, very familiar True Dough Mar 2017 #2
lol, yes, well in contrast to her hiding things from me OriginalGeek Mar 2017 #4
Damn right I do, but I sure as hell ain't telling you... Wounded Bear Mar 2017 #3
That's funny! femmocrat Mar 2017 #5
At least this hasn't happened yet fNord Mar 2017 #6
What do you mean "yet?" True Dough Mar 2017 #7
It happens to all the greats...... fNord Mar 2017 #8
I'm only great True Dough Mar 2017 #9
At school, I had a roommate who liked to change things up Rhiannon12866 Mar 2017 #10

OriginalGeek

(12,132 posts)
1. This is an almost daily conversation in my house
Mon Mar 6, 2017, 05:06 PM
Mar 2017

"Where is my________?"
"I didn't touch it"
"But it was right here..."
"I didn't touch it"
"I leave it in this same spot every night. I saw it here last night when I put it here. You were the last one in the area..."
"Oh, that. Here."
"sigh".

True Dough

(17,302 posts)
2. Yes, very familiar
Mon Mar 6, 2017, 08:07 PM
Mar 2017

Since I opened this can of worms I will admit that when my wife got home and I asked her where the mixing bowls were, she opened the cabinet and pointed to the middle shelf.

"You didn't see them there?" she asked me, somewhat incredulously.

"Uh, no. Sorry."

I was a little embarrassed. They're normally kept on the bottom shelf, but I just didn't pick them out in that new location. So there's a combination of me unable to see the forest for the trees and my wife periodically switching things around.

OriginalGeek

(12,132 posts)
4. lol, yes, well in contrast to her hiding things from me
Tue Mar 7, 2017, 11:31 AM
Mar 2017

there does seem to be an equal number of things that simply turn invisible to me.

I think it all balances out in the end.

femmocrat

(28,394 posts)
5. That's funny!
Tue Mar 7, 2017, 11:53 AM
Mar 2017

I don't even move things around and my husband can't find things that are under his nose.

Typical.... "Where's the (whatever)?" "Where it always was (followed by detailed instructions)."

Nine times out of ten I will have to drop what I'm doing and go find the (whatever)! The concept of moving something aside to find what is behind it is foreign to him I guess!

fNord

(1,756 posts)
8. It happens to all the greats......
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 01:45 AM
Mar 2017

That's what the Velcro salesman told me...... wait, do YOU know something???

Rhiannon12866

(205,237 posts)
10. At school, I had a roommate who liked to change things up
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 05:46 AM
Mar 2017

Sometimes where she moved her things (furniture) didn't make sense to me, but she just liked the change. For me, no matter where I was (and this was a boarding high school, I was away at school for six years) I always put everything in the exact same place. I like to know where to find things, too, and I'm also apt to fall on the floor...

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