There is literally no way that X-acto knife could have escaped. So how did it?
Perhaps we need some background:
Ivan’s remnants were giving our area a solid soaking, complete with tornado warnings that have me trapped in my work building trying to subdue agitated college students who want to go outside. At 1, with the tornado watch past, I walk home. I carefully pack my cutout work and X-acto knife into my bag, in a compartment that it cannot fall out of and the rain cannot penetrate.
It is a monsoon out there. Streets I have to walk across are flooded a foot deep. Rain is blowing in so many directions that my umbrella is useless. Idiots in SUVs are plowing through the flooded streets, splashing me all over at least four times. I’m running on pure luck at this point, as my glasses are fogged over and I’m useless without them. After 30 minutes of this drenching (three times my usual commute), I get home with my pants barely clinging to my hips for all the weight of the water, drop my clothing in the bathtub, and in my robe unpack my bag that I may dry my stuff out.
Okay, so I knew all my books would be soggy. A lot of my notes are destroyed. Guess that bag isn’t as waterproof as Jansport said. But thankfully, in the back section, my cutwork is OK. Except one thing- my X-acto knife is gone. The same knife I packed into the section half an hour ago. In the section which is intact, in the intact but soggy bag which was not opened in the interim.
How did it disappear? And where on Earth could it have gone? Every inch of my bags was checked. I’m at a loss as to what the smeg happened to it.
This ever happen to you guys? Did you ever find your stuff if it did?
I once lost a necklace at the gym, or so I thought. I had carefully put it in a zippered side pocket in my gym bag, but when I got home, it was gone. I must have searched that bag and that pocket 3 or 4 times. A couple of months later, I found the necklace in the pocket. Very, very weird.
Were you at all distracted when you were packing up? Maybe you only thought you packed it?
Wherever your X-acto knife is, it’s right next to my Leatherman Micra, which keeps disappearing. And a library book that I brought home and never took out of the house, but now I can’t find it. I’ve looked everywhere it could be, and it’s just not here. Gremlins, maybe? I don’t know. I think someone moves things when I’m not looking.
I’m reminded of the time I was pulling off the keys on my computer keyboard to clean all the crud out. I pulled up the escape key, which went flying up into the air… and, as far as I can tell, never came back down again. Aparrently, it escaped. I never found it.
You’ve just experienced what I refer to as the parallel universe, sort of a bizarro file of life: The Land of Lost Left Sox.
Your knife is there, along with the stuff mentioned by other dopers. The rent check that you know you mailed but the landlord never got is there. The tiny screw that you dropped when fixing your glasses is there. Of course, there is also a boatload of left sox there, too.
Very few things come back from TLOLLS-that is how the sock demons want it to be. If they are feeling benevolent, the returned item will either be hiding in plain view, or will be in a totally bizarre location, ex: the cap to the toothpaste which you dropped and spent 15 minutes looking for in the bathroom returns, but is in the freezer, next to the strawberry vanilla.
I’ve had that happen with my CDs before. I put them in my light blue CD case, on my nightstand, by my must-read pile, which is near my bed. I check my case later and my CDs are gone. After 20 minutes of looking around my room I check my brother’s CD player. There is my CD. Maybe my brother stole your X-acto knife and all the other doper’s things. I bet he has a secret room filled to the top with left socks. Damn him and his secret room.
