The Household Gremlins are at it again

[puppetmaker]

We have a house of stuff. We don’t pretend otherwise.

We also have cats, which can make some stuff vanish. Especially since Inky is our knock-it-on-the-floor cat. She actually tried to push this laptop off of the table it was on and figured out that was a bad thing to try plus no leverage.

And I am thinking that the wee folk have had a hand in the latest spate of objects vanishing because they are gone beyond gone. Vanished off the face of the earth kind of gone until they reappear just as mysteriously.

There was a book or short story that I read a very long time ago where little people redrew the world right before you looked. And sometimes they wouldn’t get to quite right until you came back to that point and wonder how the object you had be looking for was right there.

Or it’s the Doctor’s fault. That’s Caroline’s theory at least.

It can be very frustrating when it can take an extra half hour to find the object that one is seeking. I had a glasses incident the other day where it took be 45 minutes to figure out where they were. Peter said I should just get a chain and hang them around my neck. Just might do that so I don’t have to waste almost an hour looking for them.

Then there is the times when I go to where I always put something like a screwdriver and it is not there and no one knows were it is because no one has touched it.

But there is also the feeling of relief as I find that object in time and frustration when I don’t find it in time but replace it only to find the first one. This is how I came to own about half a dozen scissors.

But there is also the finding of the cool stuff that has been hidden. I honestly don’t know how much comic book art we have here but it is a lot. And signed books, we have a lot of signed books.

So I am hoping that the wee folk take a break and let me find what I need to find to get things done over the next couple of days.

I am grateful for things that stay in place.

Comments

[dagonell.livejournal.com]

My wife once misplaced something and left a dime where she thought she had it last 'to placate the elves'. A couple of days later, she found a quarter nearby. I told her they've figured out how e-bay works. :)

[wonderbink.livejournal.com]

I was once working on a comic book project (nothing came of it) and one of the ideas I had was little gremlins who borrow things from people's houses. The thing would get warm when it was being looked for, and the gremlin would rush to put it back. It would put it back somewhere where there were no witnesses, which is why things turn up in strange places or show up where you swear you looked before.

I kept the notion for future use, and added a superstition that if you clapped twice and said "give it back!" the thing would turn up.

Weirdly enough, I tried this and it works.

[readinggeek451]

I'll have to try that one.