Actual footage of a 10mm socket disappearing

**theeddies** · Nov 10, 2021, 01:43 PM

**NortonDommi** · Nov 10, 2021, 03:56 PM

I hate it when that happens! Even worse is that I sometimes can't remember where my 'safe place' is, that or the Blue Guys forget to move stuff.
My only hope is that I find my 'safe place' before I die.

**theeddies** · Nov 10, 2021, 05:05 PM

It may be that I am reading this while really tired or my mind is just somewhere else but Norton your comment has me thinking I walked into the middle of a conversation and have no context. What is this "safe place" of which you speak and who are the Blue Guys?

**Beserkleyboy** · Nov 10, 2021, 08:17 PM

Norton...I used to have the 'safe place' problem, but constructed a box hanging from the 12' ceiling on a thin rope and pulley! Voila, no more lost pieces...but I still find myself on the floor with a magnet bar looking for the 'Jesus clip' or 3mm washer or #4 screw that the Blue Guys knock off the bench...cheers

**malcdellow** · Nov 14, 2021, 01:06 PM

I hear you with the safe place.

**RetiredFAE** · Nov 10, 2021, 07:04 PM

The safe place is where you put something you don't want to lose track of, and it is SO SAFE that even YOU can't find it again!
And the blue guys is a reference to an old Twilight Zone episode called " a matter of minutes" . where there are invisible (to us) men in blue jumpsuits who move objects near us from one "frame" of time to the next.
So when you set a wrench down for example, then reach for it a microsecond later and it's not there, then you stand up and it is there, the blue men were just a few moments behind schedule.

**theeddies** · Nov 10, 2021, 08:23 PM

Originally Posted by RetiredFAE

The safe place is where you put something you don't want to lose track of, and it is SO SAFE that even YOU can't find it again!
And the blue guys is a reference to an old Twilight Zone episode called " a matter of minutes" . where there are invisible (to us) men in blue jumpsuits who move objects near us from one "frame" of time to the next.
So when you set a wrench down for example, then reach for it a microsecond later and it's not there, then you stand up and it is there, the blue men were just a few moments behind schedule.

I knew I was tired and distracted. I remember seeing that Twilight Zone episode now. They apparently can move memories around as well :-)

**Paul Alciatore** · Nov 10, 2021, 07:30 PM

Well, that will teach you not to use metric sockets. I never lost an "inch" socket.

**theeddies** · Nov 11, 2021, 12:02 PM

Originally Posted by Paul Alciatore

Well, that will teach you not to use metric sockets. I never lost an "inch" socket.

lol, that is true

**Philip Davies** · Nov 14, 2021, 09:10 AM

C. 1964, I had a comic, which featured a sci-fi story, illustrated by Frank Bellamy. In it, the explorers had tools etc go missing every night. They set up a high speed camera, 1k frames per sec. next day, a single frame shows a scruffy Neanderthal like being, triumphantly flourishing a wrench. The medics inject our hero with something that speeds him up 1000 times and off he goes to negotiate with the natives!
I liked imagining that I could have faster reactions than everybody else. I might have been better at sport.
My safe box is a leather cup produced for farriers’ nails. Sadly I am often too silly to use it.
Every working day, I put down a tool and a few seconds later cannot see it on bench, floor, ceiling, wall. Yesterday took a half hour to locate stripping pliers dropped into vice jaws.