# Did my bicycle tire cap vanish? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 12, 2022, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-my-bicycle-tire-cap-vanish/974799 "2022-11-12T14:46:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2022, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-my-bicycle-tire-cap-vanish/974799/81 "2022-12-05T22:52:56Z")
> [@commasense](#): > > I found it! And I wasn’t even looking for it. But it was in the most obvious possible place. Wouldn’t the most obvious place be on your finger? ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2022, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-my-bicycle-tire-cap-vanish/974799/82 "2022-12-06T03:28:02Z")
I know this won’t resolve the mystery, but a solution to the OP’s problem - when you are next at a gas station just go to the area where people put air in their tyres - there are _always_ heaps of valve caps lying about. Today you lose, tomorrow you take advantage of someone else’s loss - it’s the circle of life. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2022, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-my-bicycle-tire-cap-vanish/974799/83 "2022-12-06T04:17:03Z")
> [@commasense](#): > > The freezer. Hah! I just told my boss yesterday to look for his missing wallet there (_his_ freezer, not yours). As it turns out, it was “right next to him on the shelf”, wherever that is. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2022, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-my-bicycle-tire-cap-vanish/974799/84 "2022-12-06T04:20:43Z")
So what do I do with this wallet that was next to my ring? ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2022, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-my-bicycle-tire-cap-vanish/974799/85 "2022-12-06T04:25:06Z")
Put it with the dryer socks until you find a mate? ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2022, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-my-bicycle-tire-cap-vanish/974799/86 "2022-12-06T10:02:14Z")
Presumably your ring finger contracted (due to the chill of the freezer) more than the ring itself, making it easier for it to slip off (especially if it caught on a shelf or package). And that same cold made you less susceptible to feeling that at the time. Good find, and a good tip for the rest of us! And I am interested in how a ring lost in Maryland turned up in South Dakota. ---
**Author:** ![slicedalone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slicedalone/32/12515_2.png) [@slicedalone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slicedalone)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2022, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-my-bicycle-tire-cap-vanish/974799/87 "2022-12-06T10:38:07Z")
OP here. Mystery solved! Or at least deepened. A tire cap turned up on the floor of the entryway closet, into which I take off my shoes. I’m assuming that what happened was 1) the cap fell off into my sneakers and got entangled in the laces, and then 2) fell out of the laces when I took the sneakers off. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2022, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-my-bicycle-tire-cap-vanish/974799/88 "2022-12-31T15:56:29Z")
!!KISMET!! Fellow Dopers! This turned up on my YouTube feed this morning. Actual documentation: ([When you lose the 10mm socket... - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/LQ2XUYmkRmA)) ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2022, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-my-bicycle-tire-cap-vanish/974799/89 "2022-12-31T16:31:56Z")
> [@Folly](#): > > Any cuffs on those pants legs? > [@slicedalone](#): > > I’m assuming that what happened was 1) the cap fell off into my sneakers and got entangled in the laces, and then 2) fell out of the laces when I took the sneakers off. I think the first reply was pretty close if I do say so myself. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2023, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-my-bicycle-tire-cap-vanish/974799/90 "2023-01-08T16:54:48Z")
> [@ZonexandScout](#): > > Buy a new one. It’s the fastest and most reliable way to find something you lost. > **[IMG-3085 hosted at ImgBB](https://ibb.co/JqrdPcs)** > > Image IMG-3085 in Wonder-mutt's images album (From last night’s Chinese take-out dinner.) Now, you’re just scaring me! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-my-bicycle-tire-cap-vanish/974799.md?page=4)