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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.
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)"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)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)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.
Wounded Bear
(58,647 posts)femmocrat
(28,394 posts)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)True Dough
(17,302 posts)Do you know something???
fNord
(1,756 posts)That's what the Velcro salesman told me...... wait, do YOU know something???
True Dough
(17,302 posts)in my own mind!
Rhiannon12866
(205,237 posts)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...