Tools, I just put it down & now farrrk

[crash n bern]

I can find the spanner.  It's right in my hand.  I just have to spend ten minutes staring at it and wondering what I was meant to be doing with it.

[pmc57]

I recently lost a 150mm steel ruler I used nearly every time I was in my workshop, searched everywhere for it but failed every time. After a few months I was flicking through the Suzuki RM workshop manual one evening looking up fork oil quantities and guess what appeared....... give it time and all those misplaced items will be with you again.

[Canam370]

I can find the spanner.  It's right in my hand.  I just have to spend ten minutes staring at it and wondering what I was meant to be doing with it.

That's about the time to admit defeat, lock up the shed and head for bed!

[80-85 husky]

I have a theory that when you put a tool down then go to get it again, your brain puts a cutout shape of that tool in the olfactory centre so when you look at it on the bench, (right where you left it) the shape cancels the vision and you keep looking....finally the cut out fades and you go "Christ its right where I left it!" after doing 20 laps of all the spots it might be.. feel free to own this this theory

[jimson]

80-85 Husky that's a bloody good theory  jimson

[crash n bern]

I can find the spanner.  It's right in my hand.  I just have to spend ten minutes staring at it and wondering what I was meant to be doing with it.

That's about the time to admit defeat, lock up the shed and head for bed!

What..At 10am???

[skypig]

I found my KTM mudguard. (Large/orange)
It was in my girlfriends car - never actually made it home!

Turned my shed upside down looking for it, 6 weeks ago. (I have been OS since.)

[80-85 husky]

beautiful...it has been purchased...tick..it has been picked up...tick ...wtf is it??? (in the courier van)...ha hah love it

[brent j]

I read a theory on tools going missing then turning up again

It's the Martians. They are building a duplicate Earth on their planet (theory didn't go into why) and they are borrowing everything on Earth to make a copy.
That's why things disappear and reappear later in the same obvious place.

They take it, copy it and return it, true story

[80-85 husky]

martians eh? why would they want to copy a 1975 Gemini 80 sprocket circlip? I lost it in 1976 and never saw it again??