IAmUnoriginal
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Post by IAmUnoriginal on Aug 4, 2016 15:31:17 GMT
My DH and both sons can't find anything. My ODS has been known to call me from exH's house and ask me where something is. At his Dad's. Where I've never lived. And, I find it over the phone more often than not.
It's the same in my office. Both of my bosses are male. Most of the time I like working for them. Then, they "lose" something. I can go in their offices, look around and locate their misplaced file. Last time was "It's not in that pile. I don't put Med Supp policies in that pile." What do you think was about 1/3 of the way down in THAT pile?? In my best fake Jamaican accent "You look like a man." (Picked up from a former boss's wife when he'd have his man eyes in.)
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Post by melanell on Aug 4, 2016 15:35:42 GMT
Oh my gosh---I always say that if I die, no one in my house will ever find a darn thing again.
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Post by femalebusiness on Aug 4, 2016 15:41:06 GMT
Oh my, I can relate! At least several times a day I yell, MOVE SOMETHING, when he is looking for something that he can't find. I always say it's a good thing he is so cute.
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Post by craftsbycarolyn on Aug 4, 2016 15:47:16 GMT
My husband said "Are we out of coffee filters?"
I said, "Surely we can't be. We have a hundred."
He said, "I checked both shelves."
I said, "Move. I'll look."
Hocus Pocus...There they were. Right on the first shelf.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Aug 4, 2016 16:08:44 GMT
OMG. YES. I could describe exactly where something is with relative objects & placement. My husband still would be like, "I don't see it." Why aren't there more female fighter pilots? I feel like we'd hit our targets every time. Men can't find shit! Ha ha ha! In our house, DH has for many years called me "The Finder" because somehow I can manage to turn up within minutes the exact thing he has spent hours looking for on his own. No matter what it is, whose it is, where it is, or who had it last. Sometimes I don't even know what it is and have to ask for a physical description of the lost item--and then I promptly find it. The mostly unsaid joke around here is that if I'm the finder, does that make him the loser? Thank God the man is cute and has many other redeeming qualities!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2016 16:33:17 GMT
This reminded me of another story. I'm out running errands, likely not to return home for another hour or so when DH calls me. Our conversation goes like this: DH - this is a long shot but do you know where we put this thing? (I can't even remember what it was now) Me - basement, second storage shelf, next to the A/C's. It should be in one of the two boxes there. *DH goes and look* DH - holy shit, how do you do that? I didn't want to tell him that I was looking through the same box for something else and remembered that I saw what he was looking for a few days prior to that.
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Mystie
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Post by Mystie on Aug 4, 2016 16:57:21 GMT
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Mystie
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Post by Mystie on Aug 4, 2016 16:58:30 GMT
This reminded me of another story. I'm out running errands, likely not to return home for another hour or so when DH calls me. Our conversation goes like this: DH - this is a long shot but do you know where we put this thing? (I can't even remember what it was now) Me - basement, second storage shelf, next to the A/C's. It should be in one of the two boxes there. *DH goes and look* DH - holy shit, how do you do that? I didn't want to tell him that I was looking through the same box for something else and remembered that I saw what he was looking for a few days prior to that. Hell no, you don't tell him that! You want to keep him in awe of your powers. Save
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Post by peasapie on Aug 4, 2016 17:01:11 GMT
Oh my god, I think we are married to the same man. Things are right in FRONT of him on the table, and he gets up to rummage through the refrigerator to look for them. How is it possible not to see them? We go through this all the time.
Yet, if the blinds are one cm off being precisely closed, he will notice.
And yes, I love him dearly and say this with the greatest fondness and appreciation. Still...
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Post by 950nancy on Aug 4, 2016 17:23:40 GMT
I might be the man in our house. However I don't go asking anyone where I left things and I search for things until I find them. When we were first married, my husband bought me a clapper. If I lost my keys, I could clap in a certain rhythm and they would beep. I feel like I know this is a shortcoming of mine so I am really good at putting most things where they belong. Maybe that is what make me a woman.
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Shel
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Post by Shel on Aug 4, 2016 17:34:00 GMT
We call it wearing kid goggles in our house. Although that's really a misnomer since my DH wears them more than my kids.
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MsKnit
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Post by MsKnit on Aug 4, 2016 18:05:32 GMT
OMG. YES. I could describe exactly where something is with relative objects & placement. My husband still would be like, "I don't see it." Why aren't there more female fighter pilots? I feel like we'd hit our targets every time. Men can't find shit! LOL! This is so true. The thing that gets me is when he wants to know where his stuff is. Him: "Where's my belt?" Me: "Why would I know where your belt is? I don't wear it." Then, I find his belt within 2 minutes. Thankfully, the boy has the ability to find his things. I don't know how, with the condition of his room. Also, in the kitchen, he will ask me if we have ______? I'll tell him where said thing would be found. He can locate it because he actually moves things. I'm afraid he will grow out of it, though. He certainly outgrew being neat and orderly.
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Post by stefdesign on Aug 5, 2016 0:02:16 GMT
My husband's quirk has nothing to do with losing/ finding things. I'm actually often the one who can't see things right in front of my nose. My husband is quite tidy, and actually a better housekeeper than I. And a great cook. I am grateful every day. But he has this weird quirk of only making HIS side of the bed. Who does that? I've never only made my half of the bed when I make it. In all fairness, he doesn't do it all the time, when I was working and he stayed home, he made the whole bed. But now that I'm home during the day a lot more, he does this. Guess he wants me to do my share!
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eleezybeth
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Post by eleezybeth on Aug 5, 2016 0:34:01 GMT
OMG! Nobody can find anything in this house! DH is by far the worst. I will get EXACT directions - nope. Not there! I take six steps and viola it appears out of thin air. I'm magical!
My anger boils when he has lost something - lets say his keys. He has had them within the last 12 hours. He "knows" where he last had them. So please explain to me why he is digging through boxes we haven't touched in 3 years? Cause you know they'd be in there...... BOOM! How to make me lose my mind.
He can't find me in a crowd either. I won't even move and he can't find me.
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Post by cmhs on Aug 5, 2016 0:58:47 GMT
DH is the same and when he asks where something is, he follows up with, "and don't say it's right there" because I guess I say that a lot.
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Post by femalebusiness on Aug 5, 2016 1:29:11 GMT
I'm mean. My husband is always setting his glasses down on surfaces that they kind of dissappear/blend in or someplace really weird like on the top of the refrigerator. When I see them I start playing, Do you know where your glasses are? Then I giggle like a loon while I watch him look for them and beg me to tell him where they are. I can get him to promise me all kinds of neat things to tell him where they are.
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breetheflea
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Post by breetheflea on Aug 5, 2016 1:52:18 GMT
DH has this backpack he takes to work. I can't count the number of times he's lost some work thing (nametag, thumb drive etc)and SWEARS the kids took it, it's not in his backpack. I go to the backpack dump it out and voila there is the missing _____.
He also frequently can't find his hat, belt, keys, wallet, clothing, shoes, barbecue tongs, the salt, and don't get me started on the tools I have to go find in his garage....
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Post by llinin on Aug 5, 2016 1:58:54 GMT
My husband loses stuff, and then asks me "Where did you put my work keys?" like I intentionally hide his shit. He called me a few weeks ago to tell me I had taken his keys to another state with me, I assured him I didn't, so he wanted to know what I did with them. When I got home, they were in his drawer, about 2 inches away from where they were supposed to be.
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Post by Spongemom Scrappants on Aug 5, 2016 2:36:34 GMT
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Post by sillyrabbit on Aug 5, 2016 2:43:40 GMT
My DH suffers from this ailment as well. He says that my vagina is a magical device...it can find things and other cool stuff. My DSs seem to have inherited this trait. Their motto is something isn't lost until Mom can't find it.
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Post by scrapqueen01 on Aug 5, 2016 2:56:02 GMT
I often wonder how my husband was ever able to live alone before we were married.
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Post by refugeepea on Aug 5, 2016 3:10:13 GMT
Uhmmmm....I think my husband may have that complaint about me. That would be me too. Have you seen my keys? Have you seen my purse? I blame it on me being in charge of other people in the house more than him. Or maybe it's something with the name Maryann (I'm a MaryAnn).
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Post by darkchami on Aug 5, 2016 4:59:17 GMT
I have a slightly different issue. My husband will yell from upstairs and ask me to bring him xyz. Me: Where is it? DH: On the island. Me: No it isn't. DH: Look on the table. Me: Nope DH now annoyed: Well check on the counter. Me: I can't find it. DH: (long pause). Nevermind. It's in my pocket.
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Grom Pea
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Post by Grom Pea on Aug 5, 2016 5:30:54 GMT
Dh constantly loses his wallet and then claims he cannot drive us, last time I said it probably fell out in the car while I was driving us somewhere. I was right so I made him drive home. He's also infamous for looking somewhere several times and then when I look it's right there but under a piece of paper or something. Why don't they every move stuff when they look?
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Post by AussieMeg on Aug 5, 2016 5:40:01 GMT
Well this is a very timely thread, let me tell you!!! My story of silliness has nothing to do with an inability to find things though..... I just spoke to DSO on the phone. Apparently he was playing football in the driveway at work - as you do - and he kicked the football into a colleague's car, smashing the windscreen. The windscreen repair guy is there now replacing it. There goes $400 out of our holiday account.
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Post by scrappintoee on Aug 5, 2016 7:56:16 GMT
Ugh...I've gotten to the point of instead of getting annoyed after giving him DETAILED information, it's easier just to go into whichever room he's in and find it for him! Somewhat related---- On a family trip to Hawaii years ago, my Dad's glasses slipped off in the ocean. We all frantically searched and searched. By some miracle, I was able to FIND THEM, almost buried in the sand by then----Dad and my family STILL marvel about that! Since then, I enjoy searching for and locating hard-to-find /valuable things. It's very rewarding to find something that has lots of sentimental and/ or monetary value to someone! ------but NOT things like the mayo which is CLEARLY behind the milk, etc !!!!!!!!!
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Post by corinne11 on Aug 5, 2016 8:24:11 GMT
In our house we use the phrase, " Are you looking with your boys eyes???" I can walk in and find whatever is missing either by sight, moving things or using logical thinking - "where else could it be?" Corinne
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Post by gar on Aug 5, 2016 8:40:36 GMT
Hahahaha. So true. Our joke I'd "it's behind the mayonnaise " since it is often something in the fridge Ours is "Next to the butter!"
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Post by gar on Aug 5, 2016 8:42:20 GMT
Well this is a very timely thread, let me tell you!!! My story of silliness has nothing to do with an inability to find things though..... I just spoke to DSO on the phone. Apparently he was playing football in the driveway at work - as you do - and he kicked the football into a colleague's car, smashing the windscreen. The windscreen repair guy is there now replacing it. There goes $400 out of our holiday account. Oh no! Did you tear him off a strip?
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Post by patin on Aug 5, 2016 9:07:00 GMT
My DH says, "Bring your Homing Device in here, I can't find..." But since menopause, mine seems to work about 50% of the time.
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