You might think that after living in large homes (4,000 sq feet) and down sizing in a couple of steps to 300 square feet in a motorhome we would have far less space to lose things. To make it even less likely we have put up hooks for keys and most things have a regular storage place. However Carol does change things up from time to time just to get my attention. But I digress.
As our niece Erica pointed out, the new Jeep is a wonderful collector of lost objects which fall down between the seats and lodge under the passenger seat where they can only be found while sitting in the passenger side rear seat. So now when things go missing and they might be in the car, I get into the passenger side rear seat to see if they have found their way there.
On the motorhome small items seem to slide out of my pocket and find their way into the mechanism of the sofa bed. I always hope they stay on top of the foldout mattress saving me from having to open the bed. Two days ago my pocket knife found its way there. Fortunately, after a cursory look in the places it was supposed to be, there are more than 2, I decided to check the sofa and there it was, whew!
Today presented another test of, well lets just say something got lost that should not have gotten lost and even worse, it wasn’t. I’ll unravel that now. But first, last year we had only one key for the padlock for our shed. I made it a point to always leave the key in the padlock in a particular place when the shed is unlocked. At some point I managed to violate that simple principal and lock the key into the shed. A helpful park member came over with a hand held cutter and proved just how little value that lock was by slicing it open in a couple of minutes, which included getting the cutter out of its box and mounting the battery.
I went to town and bought a new lock, actually the same worthless lock. After all, I’m only trying to out honest people and direct any thieves to a shed with a less formidable latch and lock. As expected this lock came with two keys so we are far less likely to lock both in the shed.
At some point today I went to get one of the keys to check on something in the shed. Neither was there! I went to the shed and found it unlocked and there was a key in the padlock on the shelf where it belongs. Where was the other key? Carol and I took all the keys off the key rack and looked on the floor and in the crevices during which search I turned up a key I didn’t know was missing. I then searched pants pockets and the sofa under the cushions. No key. I remembered seeing a key ring, not related to the missing key, in the car and went to get it, also checking under the passenger seat from the rear passenger side seat, just in case. I brought the key ring into the coach to put it on the rack where it belongs and there was the missing key, hanging on the rack right where it belongs. GeeWiz has a poltergeist and that is my story and I’m sticking with it. Carol is disagreeing with me. She says it was Harvey the Rabbit.
