I'm that same way.
I "lost" my favorite pocket knife recently. I was working in an attic of a church and when I got down out of the attic, I noticed my knife wasn't clipped to the inside of my jeans pocket. The attic was large and pretty inaccessible in some places. So I dropped my tool belt and grabbed my flashlight and headed back up to look. I probably spent an hour looking for that knife. No luck. It was close to 5pm so I decided to come back the next morning to have a look again. For the second day, and another hour or so, I looked, lifted insulation, peeked under duct work, and eventually came up empty handed.
Here's the kicker. The knife cost me a whopping $5 when I bought it. I resigned the knife to the "oh well, that one's gone" file and went to the store and bought a new one. This one set me back $30 but I needed a good knife since I often use that knife on the job daily.
Fast forward a few months.
I'm riding home and a sudden need to hit the brakes hard occurred. I hate that because, everything on the seat, including my briefcase, tends to slide forward to the floor. And it did. But I felt something else under my foot on my side. I looked down and there..... laying on the floor by the gas pedal....was my missing knife. OH JOYOUS DAY!!!!!
Seems I had removed it from my pocket before I went into the attic and placed it on the floor beside my drivers seat. You see, I had lost the knife in that attic a few months previously when I had stooped down to fish a wire under some duct work. It fell out of my pocket and slipped down the sloping ceiling coming to rest on the insulation but way back under the ductwork. I remembered that incident and removed the knife to prevent it from happening again..... the only problem was that I forgot that I had taken it out of my pocket.... and as a result, spent over 2 hours poking around a hot, dark attic looking for the "not really missing" knife. Man did I feel dumb. But I have my $5 most favorite knife back and now It stays in my nightstand drawer. Hope I don't forget that I put it there.
It happens.
post edited by Guitarhacker - 2015/11/13 08:30:54