Lost Another Tool

[Jim Frye]

Remember the latch hook I misplaced for eight years after we moved and finally found in a box in the shop with a bunch of other unrelated items? Well, I did it again with the fireplace redo. This time it was two tools and they were much larger than the latch hook. I had two old Ryobi laser levels, a single axis and a dual axis models. Now they are in nice zippered semi-hard cases and I "distinctly remembered" the cases being the old Ryobi blue. I had used them when I built the new shop after we moved in, but hadn't needed them since, so I knew I had them and hadn't lent them to anyone. I searched the shop and house to no avail and had committed myself to doing the layout with old fashioned levels. I made one last pass through the shop and stumbled onto a BLACK zippered case in the back of a shelf hiding a BLUE zippered case. Yeah, the laser levels. Maybe I have too many tools, need a better storage system, or a younger brain.

[LCHIEN]

Speaking of lost tools, Quantas mechanics lost a four foot long tool, left inside the engine of an Airbus A380 for three hundred flight hours before they found it. Could have caused serious problem, thankfully no damage done.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/airbus-a3...104816393.html

[twistsol]

First, nobody has too many tools. That just plain isn't a possibility.

My neighbor recently commented that not only do I have a tool for everything, but that I know exactly where they all are and can walk straight to them. After twenty years of concerted effort at being organized, this is true for tools that are put away. If I had a tool in my hand 60 seconds before, there is zero chance that I'll be able to find it within 30 minutes.

[cwsmith]

Jim,

My wife and I go through this "lost" thing all the time! We have a standing joke that somewhere in our house must be room where all this stuff goes, and our son will find it after we pass-on.

One of the most recent things I've misplaced was the charger to my little hand-held chain saw. I looked everywhere imaginal and could not find it. Frustrated I bought a second set, as I like this tool for yardwork. Two week ago I was going though some of my old portable Ham Radio equipment which I stored in a box up in the loft my work shed. Lo and behold, there was the last charger! I couldn't remember looking into that box for years, yet there was the charger, which I only purchased about a year ago!

I still can't figure that one out!

Too much stuff.

I told my wife I'm going to start carrying my daily log book in my back pocket. Good idea she said! Problem now is that I can't remember where I left it!