OT Maybe we can have some fun..

Heh - Years ago, I just about fainted when opening the fridge door. Sitting on the bottom shelf like she belonged there was my cute little cat. I can only guess she jumped in earlier when the fridge had been opened for something else. Her fur felt cold, so she was in there for a while. Since I didn't actually "put" her there, I'm not sure if my story qualifies. (giggle)

Shelagh

OK, here goes. Keith had my engagement ring made. It is a green star sapphire, surrounded by emeralds and diamonds. I quite liked it. We had been married about 5 years when I lost it. I searched and searched, and offered a reward and it never turned up. Fast forward about 10 years. I decide to make some Christmas cookies, which I had not made for about 10 years. I take down the shoebox in which I had stored all my cookie cutters, to keep them out of the way, and dump it on the counter. I see something green - and ther is my ring! All I can figure is that I was packing away the cookie cutters as I gave up using them, and the ring slipped off my finger into the box. I am wearing it now.

Higs, Katherine

Whew! What a joy to find your ring after all those years. At least it was safe at home.

I do find things in odd places - hard to blame anyone else now that the kids have all moved out. Usually they end up in the refrigerator or the freezer when not meant to be (no cats though).

My DH would tell you that my problem is not where I put things away but whether I put things away. (He notices my out of place things more frequently than his, of course.) I did get a key board for the kitchen to keep from hunting for my car keys. (They have turned up in laundry baskets, etc in the past.)

I'm sure I've left all sorts of things in strange places, but the worse thing I ever did was when DD1 was about 2.5 yo and DS was about 3 weeks. We went shopping in the village, with him in the pram and she was very good walking nicely holding on to the pram . We went into the Post Office and came out and were halfway home when she suddenly looked up at me and said "Where's the baby?" who was in the pram outside the Post Office, sleeping soundly for one of the few times in his infancy. I was appalled, and ran dragging DD1 and he was still fast asleep. He's grown up to be a very independent young man, perhaps that's why!! Love & higs (hanging head in shame) Christine

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I (silently) accused pupils for have stolen my USB memory stick, after have searched the school "up and down" for it, asked everyone... Found it nearly two years later, in a yarn sack in my stash, at HOME!!! Why it was there is still a mystery! Aud ;-)

I just can imagine how happy you were! When you told this, I suddenly remembered that day I couldn't find MY ring, I had taken it off to do different house work. But I suddenly found the solution, and moulded it out of the dough, just the moment before I should put breads in the owen! I destoyed two breads before I found it, and didn't "tackle" to use the dough for "new" bread! LOL! AUD ;-)

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Well, Christine, don't be ashamed, a man I know came home from holiday in his car, together with his wife. They stopped in a small place an hour's drive from here. HE went in to a grocery shop, and comming out, he saw the bus, same "type" he used every day for work. He rushed on the bus, paied the ticket and forgot his wife sitting in their car, without driving license! ;-)) I must say he was well known to be extreemly absent minded, as very intelligent people can be!

OH! May be you forgot the pram because you are extreemly intelligent,Christine! AUD ;-) Aud

That'll be it Aud, although at the time I put it down to just having had a baby ( who slept very little) Now I put it down to what a friend of mine calls 'post natal amnesia' The youngest just turned 21 and I still have post natal amnesia!! Love & higs Christine

On Thu, 25 May 2006 21:30:13 +0100, Christine in Kent, Garden of England spun a fine yarn

I just popped in to post the mssg. about my sister, and this post just struck my funny bone. Post-natal amnesia, that's hilarious, and I needed that! Hugs, Noreen

Glad to be of service Noreen, and glad to hear DS is recovering nicely. Now to make sure you recover from the anxiety. Love & extra special higs Christine

On Thu, 25 May 2006 21:42:44 +0100, Christine in Kent, Garden of England spun a fine yarn

Nod, nod, nod, thanks Christine. Funny thing ... earlier... when Laura called the first time, I got her to get a feather in her hat with her gramma.... told her to ask my mom if she'd taken her medince... I KNEW my mom would forget over the course of worrying about my sister, and I was right, and Laura, who is NOT my mother's favourite, got a feather in her cap for reminding her. (still the ever dutiful daughter and auntie, I DO without being there, and don't take the credit, LOL!) (but that's what Auntie's are FOR!!!!) Hugs, Noreen

I have a keyboard. Unfortunately, the keys seldom find their way there.

Higs, Kather> Whew! What a joy to find your ring after all those years. At least

LOL I've never left a baby, but I DO have a story.

A friend of mine was born on April 1, 1950. He was the first of his family (14 in all!) to be born in a hospital. At that time, the method of travel in that community at the beginning of April was by dog sled. Well, he was born, and all went fine. THe big day came to bring him home, and everybody gathered to welcome the new baby, and to "wet his head". (This involves drinking to the baby's health. ) After about an hour, someone said, "Where is the baby?" Horrors! They had left him in the dog sled! Fortunately, they were well-fed dogs, or else this could have been a dreadful story, and I would have never met him.

Higs, Kather> I'm sure I've left all sorts of things in strange places, but the

LOL Well, if it had been a Christmas cake, it would have been ok, as that is one of the "favours" that goes in it.

Higs, Katherine

At least our lad wasn't at quite that sort of risk, and I'm sure if he'd woken and started doing what he did best at that point in his life (yelling his socks off!!) someone would have found him and let me know. And I'd never have lived it down! The nurse forgetting the baby: oh dear!! And I bet your friend's Mum was mortified too. The baby must have been well wrapped up too in that weather Love & higs (relieved that it's not just me!!) Christine

Oh, I must say that I love the way you put it. That must be the reason...... "We are all Very Intelligent People !!! "

I feel so much better now. LOL

Diane

Loved all your stories. Made me smile. Thanks.

Diane

I can't think of any stories of my own, but have a couple on my parents.

My mom was taking me to school one morning when I was in elementary school and she drove part of the way with her purse on the top of the car. Another driver finally got her attention about it.

Then one time my dad left a coffee cup sitting on the tongue between the pickup hitch and a cattle trailer and drove about 100 miles (on smooth highway). He discovered it while on a rest stop.

BonnieBlue

Well wrapped and covered in furs.

Higs, Kather> At least our lad wasn't at quite that sort of risk, and I'm sure if