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    I was working at a motorcycle shop as a mechanic adjusting a carb with a special screwdriver. I blip the throttle a couple of times and go to tweak the idle air screw a bit and can't find my screwdriver. I search the bench the bike is on and then my toolbox but it's gone.I search the bike to see if I had laid it somewhere on the bike but no luck. Next I go to the sales counter to see if someone had borrowed it while I wasn't looking. I asked if anyone had seen my screwdriver and the secretary asked if it was the one in my hand. Sure enough I had been searching for about ten minutes for what I had been holding in my left hand. I would like to say it was from old age but I was about 20 at the time. Now if I don't put tools back where they belong, they are lost until I stumble on them.

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    It seems that I can remember where I originally put something but if I use it and move it then it is much harder to remember where I moved it.
    I also am losing the ability to remember how to reassemble something I just took apart.
    It is one thing to forget to take something out of the microwave and another to remember what the microwave is used for.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rbuck351 View Post
    I would like to say it was from old age but I was about 20 at the time. Now if I don't put tools back where they belong, they are lost until I stumble on them.
    Was this back in the 60's?
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    Have you ever lost your cell phone while talking on it? Ask me how I know that feeling.

    I seem to hide more stuff from myself than is humanly possible.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Idaho45guy View Post
    10mm cases were right in front of me in the red Caseguard 50-round boxes. I swore I had put them in a red 100-round box and then emptied it into a red plastic Folger's coffee can. Nope.
    This is me.

    It's obvious that our eyes are ignoring things that don't look right. I "lost" some brass that was right there in front of me for days, in a black box. My eyes/brain were looking for a green box.

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    Yeah, it was in the 60s, but I was never into the hippie stuff. Motorcycle racing, sky diving and reloading/shooting were my interests and mind bending stuff didn't mix well with any of those.

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    I guess we all misplace things occasionally. I have tried to form better habits, or establish a routine to help with this problem. I empty my pockets at the same place everytime to keep from loosing my keys. I put my hand tools that I use in the loading room in the same place overtime. Ect, ect!!! It helps.

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    For me it’s not a memory problem, it’s not paying attention to what I do with things. I first noticed this at 18 when I started working on a street rod. Almost 50 years later it’s neither worse nor better but I have learned to PAY ATTENTION to where I set things down if not in their “home” place.
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    I don't recall ever having memory problems.
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    Mal Paso means Bad Pass, just so you know.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mal Paso View Post
    I don't recall ever having memory problems.
    Should this be in purple?
    A vote for anyone other then the conservative candidates is a vote for the liberal candidates.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sasquatch-1 View Post
    Should this be in purple?
    Not if you are saying it with a straight face.
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    Mal Paso means Bad Pass, just so you know.

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    I was doing some work @ the house recently and Misplaced my Hammer. By the time i found the Hammer I lost , I found 5 others I misplaces a while ago.
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    Just found my favorite safety glasses. They were at the bottom of the pile of tools I had been using to hang Christmas lights over the weekend.
    Sometimes life taps you on the shoulder and reminds you it's a one way street. Jim Morris

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    If anyone should find my mind please PM me.

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    I thought buying multiples of things would help, nope. Somewhere I have about half a dozen of those telescoping rods with a magnet on the end. I dropped a socket down in the engine compartment of the truck yesterday, saw where it was and needed one of those magnets to retrieve it, I know there's at least 3 of them in the shop...somewhere. Tried the one that normally is stuck to the gun safe, not there either! Go to the tool cart, nope! Finally the wife produced one with a broken shaft just long enough to get the socket. I don't lay these things down somewhere, they're always stuck to something metal where they're obvious. I guess I'll have to tie bright orange ribbons to them!
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    I try To Wear everything I think I.m going to Misplace .
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    I've learned that buying multiples of things doesn't mean you'll find one when you need it.
    Liberalism is a cult divorced from reality.

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    I personally do not lose things.
    I am sure that it is either gremlins or the neighbor kids.

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    Years ago I was changed to online time sheets, really bad software, so the boss hired a student worker to follow me around and keep the little boxes all filled in. In exchange I taught my millenial how to walk twenty miles of stairs (tracked by their iphones) every day. These kids are out of shape.

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    Faulty memory leads to losing things. I took a skinner peep off a rifle and could swear I put it in a ziplock bag in the rifle box. Nope, not there. That leaves me to search through a huge amount of stuff that is poorly organized. I may accidentally find it one day but for now it may as well be on the moon.

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