[time-nuts] OT loosing things

[Steve Rooke]

While repairing my LCD monitor, I took off my glasses so as to be able
to see better close up as I'm VERY short sighted and even the
vari-focals my optician prescribes can no longer get me close enough
to solder properly. Without them on, I can focus VERY close but the
range is VERY short, being just a few inches. So I completed the work
involving a few stages without putting the glasses back on just to
save time but, when I went to grope around and try to find them, I
could not. So where did I put the blessed things, and after a period
of serious extended "looking" around, blind panic started to set in.
What the dickens had I done with them! So I ended up shuffling out of
the workshop, through the house, stumbling over the dogs, and up to
the bedroom to, eventually, find my spare pair. On my return to the
workshop I still could not find the glasses looked everywhere. A cup
of tea ensued and I took a less panicky search only to find they had
fallen down the back of some gear, or maybe it was the fairies at the
bottom of my garden which had done it. I concluded that in my
"blinded" state of putting them down in the first place, I had
obviously chosen an poor "safe" place.

After this I got to thinking and wondered if there is perhaps
something darker happening here. My current theory is that there is
something called a Lost Wormhole which moves around randomly and
removes items from there current place, setting them down in some
completely different dimension. So the chances of loosing something
increases in proportion to the time that the item is left somewhere
due to the increased probability of it being "borrowed" by the LW.
Now, all is not lost as the LW is a two way pipe and so eventually
your lost item will be dropped back somewhere in your vicinity but
probably not where you thought you had left it. To my mind, this seems
to fit my experience of the way the World seems to work and I'm sure
there is some law here.

For the humour challenged, this message is :) rated.

Please feel free to comment on my theory but perhaps this should be via PM.

Thank you for your time,
Steve

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Steve Rooke - ZL3TUV & G8KVD
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
- Einstein