Actual footage of a 10mm socket disappearing

**elk-a-holic** · Nov 14, 2021, 07:42 PM

I always blame the cat. Then when I get really desperate I call on the wife whom usually saunters out to the shop and spots the item right off the bat. The cat likes her better than me so she puts it in an obvious to a females intuitions safe spot.

**old kodger** · Nov 14, 2021, 09:38 PM

Originally Posted by elk-a-holic

I always blame the cat. Then when I get really desperate I call on the wife whom usually saunters out to the shop and spots the item right off the bat. The cat likes her better than me so she puts it in an obvious to a females intuitions safe spot.

I've tried that one, sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't.
What I do most often now is, if I lose a hammer, I go look for a tape measure, I almost invariably find the hammer. I think what happens is that the gremlin that hid the hammer to start with is fooled into thinking that I wanted the tape measure all along, and hid the wrong thing, hence the hammer turns up.

**Beserkleyboy** · Nov 14, 2021, 09:42 PM

Ha! Kodger, that's gotta be my problem, looking for wrong thing!...now, if I could only keep the blue men out of the workshop...cheers

**old kodger** · Nov 13, 2021, 04:36 PM

Originally Posted by Paul Alciatore

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

No, nor I, especially if it's "inch" drive

**hemmjo** · Nov 11, 2021, 03:41 AM

Yep, I can relate to all of this. It seems to happen mostly with my glasses I have to wear reading glasses. I told a guy walking by I had left my glasses in my truck. Asked if he could read some fine print on a box of screws. He stood there for a couple seconds seemed to be staring at my shirt. Gave really me a strange look, but he did read it for me. I said thanks. But thought to myself, that was kind of weird. Got to my truck, could not find my glasses....

They had been hanging from the neck of my shirt the whole time.

**Beserkleyboy** · Nov 11, 2021, 04:17 AM

Ha, Hemmjo, spot on! I can lose a tool in plain sight for quite a while...I usually stop and think about when I last used it and for what...and then it reappears magically! It must be the blue men...cheers and thanks for your input here...

**Frank S** · Nov 12, 2021, 06:00 PM

I didn't find any of my missing 10 mm sockets today but I did locate my
electrical pressure tester

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**NortonDommi** · Nov 12, 2021, 06:14 PM

Originally Posted by Frank S

I didn't find any of my missing 10 mm sockets today but I did locate my
electrical pressure tester

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Can you get those for low voltage as well?

**Frank S** · Nov 12, 2021, 06:33 PM

Originally Posted by NortonDommi

Can you get those for low voltage as well?

I have a medium voltage one. And I think an ultra-high voltage for checking xmas tree lights but will have to look tomorrow for a low voltage

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**theeddies** · Nov 11, 2021, 12:04 PM

Originally Posted by hemmjo

Yep, I can relate to all of this. It seems to happen mostly with my glasses I have to wear reading glasses. I told a guy walking by I had left my glasses in my truck. Asked if he could read some fine print on a box of screws. He stood there for a couple seconds seemed to be staring at my shirt. Gave really me a strange look, but he did read it for me. I said thanks. But thought to myself, that was kind of weird. Got to my truck, could not find my glasses....

They had been hanging from the neck of my shirt the whole time.

But still, were they the right magnification glasses? When I am in the shop I have my safety glasses, my bifocals hanging, and my optivisor propped on head.