Most people who know me consider me to be a fairly organised and methodical person. I have routines. I have places things are kept. I usually keep on top of my paperwork.
I just have two achilles heels: keys and purses. They never seem to get put down in their correct homes if I have them, and I’m always losing them – to the point that Akra doesn’t bother trying to help me when I declare them lost, just rolls his eyes at me and lets me get on with the search of desperation.
Anyway, today was fairly normal. I only lost my front door keys once (I’d put them in my coat pocket rather than my jeans pocket while struggling in the front door armed with toddler and new fish for the biorb). Later on this evening, while doing my accounts I went to go find my purse (amazingly actually in my handbag where it belongs – obviously a freak occurrence) and while I was scrabbling around at the bottom of the bag I felt some keys.
Eh? That’s odd. My house keys are on the hook, as are my car keys… what keys are these? I don’t remember putting keys in my bag. I scrabble around some more. These mystery keys appear to be in the lining of the bag. With more investigation I discover that there is a teeny tiny zip hidden in the side of the lining and there’s an actual pocket there that I knew nothing about.
I extract the keys. It takes a few seconds for me to identify them. They’re my mother’s house keys. Now I’m fairly certain that I considered these lost … the move before last. That would be before Akra Jr was born – just over 5 years ago.
Oops.
Oh well, they’re obviously safe there. I put them back. If I forget where they are again, you will remind me, won’t you?
6 responses so far ↓
1 Lisa // 22nd May 2006 at 9:29 pm
I can’t believe you’ve kept the same bag for that long? How have you managed without spilling something sticky or smelly, breaking the zip, having a disastrous biro leak or similar?
2 Pewari // 22nd May 2006 at 9:30 pm
Mainly because since Akra Jr was born I hardly ever go out with a bag, and just chuck stuff into the change bag or the back of the pushchair ;)
3 cassie-b // 23rd May 2006 at 1:09 pm
For me, it’s my glasses. I don’t wear them all the time, so I set them down a lot – in only 3 or 4 places. Except sometimes I don’t set them there at all.
Don is an expert at finding them for me.
Cas
4 Tami // 23rd May 2006 at 1:40 pm
That is amazing!
5 Pewari // 23rd May 2006 at 1:46 pm
You mean that is amazingly brilliant that I found them, right? Not amazingly stupid for losing them for five years…
6 Kaptain Kobold // 24th May 2006 at 11:17 am
“They never seem to get put down in their correct homes if I have them, and I’m always losing them – to the point that Akra doesn’t bother trying to help me when I declare them lost, just rolls his eyes at me and lets me get on with the search of desperation.”
It would appear that Akra and I are kindred spirits in this respect :-)
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