tools that have a way of hiding themselves

[Frank S]

Does any body else ever experience this?
I know many of you have only small spaces in which you must do your work and many have a limited number of tools so you are able keep them well organized, even if friends happen to borrow or use them on their projects at your homes or work shops I am currently much more spread out and have storage or work areas in a much more diverse way part of my reason for wanting to complete my shop but even then there will be as many as 10 or more work stations
I have many tool boxes located in more than one location
there are some tools that I rarely ever use then when I want them they never seem to be where I thought they were located.
I call these my migratory tools. Things like a favorite screwdriver or pair of pliers maybe an adjustable wrench are just a few examples of migrating tools but these usually wind up in a tool box with a drawer of like items just not always in the same box as I had them located. Much of the time these are inadvertently relocated by myself or in many cases others who come by to work on their own stuff then borrow tools from several different boxes or they just leave them on a table for me of my wife to put away She does not recognize every tools as to its place of origin and some I will relocate thinking this is a better location than where I had them before then forgetting I had placed them in the new location.
However there is 1 specific tool I rarely need to use that for some reason I can almost never find them even though I have at least 6 of them located in various boxes somewhere that I know of At one time I know I had all 6 of them in 1 single drawer. Yesterday I was looking for a pickle fork most will recognize it as a tool to remove tie rod ends on the steering of a vehicle some may even call it a tuning fork or have other names for them.
I searched through 8 tool boxes and didn't find them. not a single one was located in the drawer where I am sure I had put every one I could find a couple years ago. that drawer has prybars and large punches. So the wife and I searched and searched until we came up with 2 of them a large one with the tines close together and a shorter one with the forks much wider apart that was the one I was needing and it wasn't even in a tool box at all but a box of parts that a neighbor had disassembled a while back.
We still haven't found the other 4 of these