Brain death strikes again
19I lost my phone
While I was in the driver’s seat in my car.
And the “missing phone” was mounted on the magnetic mount right by the steering wheel.
My eyes were open at the time. My eyes work, too. Just had them checked.
I was facing the steering wheel.
I had to ping my phone in order to find it.
Sigh.
Perhaps i didn’t actually mislay my phone. Perhaps I mislaid something else.
/giphy empty-headed
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So are you saying the phone was just fine? Was it YOU that was lost?
@therealjrn
As always. Sigh
@rockblossom
Indeed.
Aaawwww poor thing! I have had those moment as and try to tell myself ot is simply because I am so bisy
Well at least you found it. You need to ping your brain though (aka the poster “Of all the things I lost I miss my mind the most”).
While doing chemo I was sure I needed a pile of mitten clips on the bottom of my shirt so I could attach everything I kept losing along with a bunch of reminder notes about stuff I kept forgetting.
I was on the way home from a road trip two weeks ago and stopped at McDonalds. I reached into my purse- my wallet was missing. Checked my jacket, the car, the parking lot, the bathroom, the floor- no wallet. Went out to my car, confirmed my child had enough gas money to get us home, pulled out my phone to cancel my credit cards and sat down. It was in my pants pocket.
@sammydog01
Congrats on finding it that way! And congrats on wearing pants that have decent pockets!
@f00l @sammydog01 Pockets in pants. And skirts. And dresses. What a vision. Congratulations on finding it, though.
@f00l @OldCatLady Blue jeans every day. (It was a very small wallet.)
@sammydog01 I have a few sets of scrubs that don’t have back pockets for a wallet and it always drives me nuts when I wear them. I end up putting my wallet in my backpack then getting home and wondering where my wallet is the next day.
I’ve lost track of the number of times I’ve “lost” things, only to find them right next to where I was when I determined they had been lost. I like to think that as we age the optical blind spot just gets bigger, but that doesn’t explain the time I did that with my truck …
@stolicat I did that with a car last year. A friend had loaned me a Camry while the Camaro was in the shop. After driving the Camry for over a week, I went out one day after work, and when I pressed the remote, a car behind me beeped.
That’s weird I thought, so I did it a few more times, and every time the car behind me beeped. It finally dawned on me that I’m standing in front of a Honda, and I probably want the Toyota behind me.
@stolicat lmao. Did not see the closer coming.
I always keep checking where it “should” be when I can’t find something. You would think I could look there once and move on but nope. Maybe it might reappear?
It drives me crazy when I misplace or carefully put away so it will not get lost stuff. I find it hard to blame age since I have been doing it so long. It sort of works now with people who have not known me forever.
@speediedelivery BIL gave me and SWMBO a set of Tiles for Christmas… yep, you guessed it. I lost them before I could pair them to the phone. (At least i have a bunch of tracker pixels if I can find the batteries…)
@speediedelivery going to see said BIL next weekend… finally remembered where I stashed the tile kit (2mates 2 slims) he gave us. Now if I can just keep up with them until I get the app installed and actually put a slim in my wallet and a mate on my keys…
@chienfou I have found stuff that I put carefully away, searched for and then put somewhere else so it would not happen again. No such luck.
At the moment I am looking for a particular photo. I remember taking it and then… nothing. Out of town family here for a couple days I want to share it with. At this point it is unlikely to be found before they leave. Not a huge problem but really irritating me. I was sure I knew where it was.
@speediedelivery
YW
It’s always in the last place you look.
@mike808 Now if we could only figure out how to look in the last place first.
@Kidsandliz @mike808 If you keep looking afterwards, then perhaps there is a problem.
@mike808 Like, when you drop a glass, it’s always on the last bounce that it breaks.
@phendrick years ago my grandmother was changing the light bulb in her kitchen ceiling fixture.
As she unscrewed the bulb, it slipped from her fingers. It hit the floor, bounced up onto the counter, shattered her coffee pot, and landed on the counter unscathed.
@djslack @phendrick
@blaineg wut?
The best is when you look all over, only to realize it’s been in your hand the whole time.
@Limewater
Yes, looking for something that’s in my hand at the time is also part of my personal special expertise.
What a fool
@ELUNO
Indeed.
For the record (full disclosure):
Am also an expert at losing my glasses and being unable to find them …
while I am wearing them and looking thru the lenses at the time.
@f00l
*footnote
The correction is v slight (each eye). The glasses are lightweight.
No doubt these factors make it easier for me to forget I have them on. Since things look while wearing glasses just about exactly as things look while not wearing them.
@f00l
Just the other my absent minded guy who is constently loosing everything he touches or even looks at, asked me if ive seen his glasses. Mind you he is blind as a bat without them! I look up and they are on his head! Not even on top of his head but on his face, like sitting on his nose looking right through the lenses!! How air headed was that! One of his most truly absent minded blonded moments for sure!!! Lmbo…
@f00l I very often find myself wishing that I had worn my sunglasses [w/ corrective lenses] while I am wearing them, only to wonder a short time later why it is getting so dark out so early.
@f00l I once spent several minutes tearing around the house, Looking for my glasses, “I’m gonna be late for work, where are my glasses?!”
Finally find 'em, put them on, and suddenly can’t see SHIT.
Take 'em off, clear as a bell…WTF??
I was Wearing my Contacts.
Too focused on FINDING MY DAMN GLASSES to notice I could see fine…
My sitto, (grandmother in Lebanese) had a wonderful true story. One day when she was cooking her diamond fell out of the setting in her first engagement ring.
After hours and hours, days and days of turning the kitchen and house upside down looking for the stone she NEVER gave up or lost hope. 
Instead she prayed to Saint Anthony, patren Saint of finding lost things. 
It was several years later, 3 to be exact, after many endless cleaning sprees when she opened the refrigerator door and saw a sparkly something on the floor. Low and behold it was her diamond!! 
How cool is that!! 
@Lynnerizer
That’s a great story. And she got her engagement diamond back.
Win all around!
@Lynnerizer That whole story just for a refrigerator pun? Very nice.
It’s not just age. This is my then 16 year old grandson. “Have you seen my goggles?”
@blaineg
Cracks me up every time.
My 16yo son asks me “Where is my inheritance?”
At least you didn’t ask someone where your phone is while holding it to your face and conversing with someone else. Why no, of course I’ve never done such a silly thing as that, whatever would make you think such a thing??
I have called my husband to ask him to call my phone because I can’t find it. Yes, the phone that I was using to ask him that question. I’ve done this more than once. He sometimes plays along and will call me right back asking if I found it.
Proof this is the standard operating procedure:
Here is a post from 2016 and @carl669’s dumber than me topic:
https://meh.com/forum/topics/are-you-dumber-than-me
@f00l but he clearly said it was not just Texas it was the Texas DMV. So. What are you going to do.
I am getting to an age where if I put something away where I won’t forget it I may as well throw it out since I will never see it again…
It’s just a glitch, nothing to worry about.