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Posted: 8/5/2005 5:15:28 AM EDT
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Tape measures - last night I didn't need one and I saw at least two laying around - but boy - the second I need to check something...
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Posted: 8/5/2005 5:23:23 AM EDT
[#2]
They are with your socks.
ByteTheBullet (-: |
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Posted: 8/5/2005 5:28:50 AM EDT
[#3]
A friggin' pair of scissors. There are probably a half dozen in the house, but it seems like my wife hides them from me.
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Posted: 8/5/2005 5:30:23 AM EDT
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You will never find the screwdriver that you need, you always find the opposite (want phillips, get blade).
So here's what I do, I look for a phillips but keep saying to myself, I need a flat head screwdriver. Voila, I get a phillips.  I blame the mind-reading invisible stealth gremlins.
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Posted: 8/5/2005 5:31:35 AM EDT
[#5]
Allen wrench the right size.
Bike tire prying tool thingy. Finger nail clippers. |
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Posted: 8/5/2005 5:50:33 AM EDT
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The list is long of things I can't find.
Let's just say: If I need it, I can't find it. If I don't need it, I have tons of it/them laying around. |
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Posted: 8/5/2005 5:59:58 AM EDT
[#7]
I have the same problem with my work tools, its like the philips screwdrivers just get up and walk away.
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Posted: 8/5/2005 6:01:15 AM EDT
[#8]
I rarely watch TV. but when i do i can't find the remote
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Posted: 8/5/2005 6:13:21 AM EDT
[#9]
Its good to know I am not alone, I can never find the damn phillips head screwdriver either. All this time I thought it was me.
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Posted: 8/5/2005 6:17:46 AM EDT
[#10]
Finger nail clippers
I have bought > 20 of them and can never find one. 
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Posted: 8/5/2005 6:22:23 AM EDT
[#11]
I can never find a hammer when I need one.
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Posted: 8/5/2005 6:24:41 AM EDT
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Posted: 8/5/2005 6:25:16 AM EDT
[#13]
That is why I wear my tool belt 24/7. Even in the shower incase the knob is loose or something
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Posted: 8/5/2005 6:34:02 AM EDT
[#14]
Damn! No more opening canned beer, you'd have to have bottles and an opener only! 
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Posted: 8/5/2005 6:58:14 AM EDT
[#15]
For me it was the opposite when I used to smoke. I always had a lighter on me. I went years without buying lighters and I always had one. Everytime I pulled it out I wondered where it came from and asked all my buddies and no one claimed it.
as far as missing stuff? I will join you on the mysterious phillips mystery. I had a tool box drawer ful of flatheads I never bought, but for the dozen or so phillips, I can only find one and thats after about 20 minutes of searching. |
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Posted: 8/5/2005 7:12:08 AM EDT
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We may be on to something here. Can it be coincidence ALL of us can never find a phillips head??? Interstingly, this is only true of screw drivers with handles. Phillips screw bits (for my drill driver) are relatively easy to find. HHHHmmmmmmmm............. more investigation is needed. |
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Posted: 8/5/2005 7:19:30 AM EDT
[#17]
keys to my American Tourister suitcase. Couldn't find them last time I took a trip so made one out of a paper clip
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Posted: 8/5/2005 7:22:08 AM EDT
[#18]
I'm always tripping over rolls of duct tape until I need some. Then they're all gone.
hmmmmm. |
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Posted: 8/5/2005 7:37:06 AM EDT
[#19]
Torx bits
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Posted: 8/5/2005 7:48:27 AM EDT
[#20]
You could do what I do, and use the phillips screw driver to stir the tools around
in your toolbox looking for the phillips screw driver. Eventually you realize that it is in your hand. GM |
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Posted: 8/5/2005 7:55:26 AM EDT
[#21]
When I'm d-loading music:
I can find all the songs by a particular artist I don't want, but it takes 3 million tries to get the one I want. Then I might go back to the same artist, find the songs I wanted the last time, but not the song I want THIS TIME! |
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Posted: 8/5/2005 7:56:50 AM EDT
[#22]
a winning lottery ticket
every time they call off the numbers I can never seem to find a winning one laying around. |
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Posted: 8/5/2005 7:57:47 AM EDT
[#23]
They are all in my tool chest. Cuz I sure as hell cant ever fine a standard screw driver!
CH |
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Posted: 8/5/2005 8:00:01 AM EDT
[#24]
Pens,pencils. I've TIDE THEM TO THINGS SO THEY WON"T GET LOST!!!! And they still do.
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Posted: 8/5/2005 8:03:52 AM EDT
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Every time I blow my nose or something I got TP, but when I have to take a sh*t I dont' have any.
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Posted: 8/5/2005 8:52:23 AM EDT
[#26]
The correct Allen wrench!!!!
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Posted: 8/5/2005 9:37:26 AM EDT
[#27]
Buy the set that is all held together with a handle thingy. That way, WHEN you lose it, the problem won't be that you can't find the correct one. It'll be that you can't find ANY allen wrench.  
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Posted: 8/5/2005 9:43:28 AM EDT
[#28]
I can't ever seem to find any $$$ in my checking account.
I keep putting paychecks in, and I don't recall writing any checks. . . . Damn this site. . . . Oh well, its only $$$
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Posted: 8/5/2005 9:48:35 AM EDT
[#29]
You mean a flat head screwdriver? 
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Posted: 8/5/2005 12:05:17 PM EDT
[#30]
hmmm... I must have all your philips heads lol...I can NEVER find a flat blade when I need one. Well, that was until I bought a set of Brownell's bits and a handle...they all sit neatly in a drawer in their little holder, and I'm ANAL about putting them back when I'm done. The hollow ground blades are the bomb for gun work. |
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Posted: 8/5/2005 12:46:12 PM EDT
[#31]
McUzi's curse on you must be working. |
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Posted: 8/5/2005 1:00:25 PM EDT
[#32]
a Sharpie that still has ink in it
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Posted: 8/5/2005 2:08:52 PM EDT
[#33]
Teflon tape. For sealing pipe threads. Over the years I've never emptied a spool, but I always have to go buy a new one everytime I need the stuff.
ACDC's "Back in Black" album. The current cassette tape is the first one I've ever wore out on my own. It's also the third tape I've bought. <quote>"Back in Black"....America's most stolen album. </quote> Bumblebee Bob circa 1986 |
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Posted: 8/5/2005 6:43:45 PM EDT
[#34]
You havent been around long enuf to know about that..... WHO are you....REALLY????  |
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Posted: 8/5/2005 6:45:59 PM EDT
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My laundry. I buy new clothes constantly and I'm lucky if I get to wear them once. Generally, I never see them again.
I've been looking for my t-shirt with a Jericho 941 on the front to wear to the gun show tomorow, but no such luck. I got to wear that shirt twice when it was brand new and never saw it again. |
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Posted: 8/5/2005 6:54:22 PM EDT
[#36]
Not missing something but along the same lines...
If you go to plug in something like a polarized AC plug or a D type connector or an RJ-11/RJ-45 type plug you THINK that you'd have a 50-50 chance of getting the plug and the receptacle aligned wouldn't you? I almost ALWAYS miss it on the first try. We're not talking about 60-40 or 70-30 we're talking like 99-01. This has been consistant for me as long as I can remember. 
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Posted: 8/5/2005 6:56:09 PM EDT
[#37]
The Phillips are on the right, the straight blades on the left. The blades face each other in the middle.
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Posted: 8/5/2005 7:28:20 PM EDT
[#38]
Me too!!!!!!!!! In ANY given 50-50 odds thing, 90% of the time it'll work out the WRONG way for me. |
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Posted: 8/6/2005 9:36:20 AM EDT
[#39]
Have you found mysterious pebbles suddenly appearing in your shoes while you walk? |
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Posted: 8/6/2005 9:38:19 AM EDT
[#40]
HUGE +1 |
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Posted: 8/6/2005 2:41:22 PM EDT
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Not so much with the teflon tape for me, but electrical tape, duct tape & silicone gasket sealer. I have never used a whole tube of "blue goo" gasket sealer. If I assume I have some left before working on the car the tube I find is dried into a solid lump.  If I buy a new tube along with whatever auto parts I'm getting for the project I'll find a previously purchased & unopened tube when I get out my tools. But I can never find the unopened tube unless I have already purchased it's replacement.+1 on nail clippers, tape measures & scissors also. Coat hangers.....I cannot recall ever buying hangers but they seem to just appear in closets. I think the sock fairies leave them as payment for the socks they steal. |
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Posted: 8/6/2005 2:43:56 PM EDT
[#42]
It's a parable. The screw drivers are symbolic of the defferant times of your life. When you where single you were flat. Now that you are married you have a crossed head(the wife) and are getting screwed. SGatr15 |
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Posted: 8/6/2005 6:04:08 PM EDT
[#43]
I was never any good at riddles. |
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Posted: 8/6/2005 6:09:47 PM EDT
[#44]
I used my ninja skills to steal all of your tools. But I might be willing to sell them back to you on the EE...
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