String Theory

[Escher]

So, the other day my wife puts the Saran Wrap on the counter-top after wrapping a bowl, and puts the bowl in the fridge.

She turns around and the Saran Wrap is gone.

It's not on the counter.
It's not on the floor.
It didn't fall into the drawer.
She didn't put it in the fridge by mistake.
The boys don't have it.
It's not on, in, under, behind, over, between or beside any object in the kitchen.

I know she's not hallucinating, because there is a freshly wrapped bowl of jello-cubes in the fridge.

My wife goes continues looking for it, and after a few dull minutes, I realize she is going insane in the search.

So I join in, thinking a fresh set of eyes will help.
No, it's not under the sink (playplace of the boys). It's not in the trash (I even dug) It's not even in other rooms of the house, mysteriously transported.

It is gone.

We hold out, believing in the laws of science that clearly state matter can neither be created nor destroyed.

It's been two weeks, the Saran Wrap is still gone.

And it's not like it's a tiny object, either.

So we are watching tv, and come upon this explanation. String Theory. Now, I won't go into the nitty-gritty details, but one of the tenets of the theory basically suggests that it is entirely possible that two solid objects pass entirely through each other. However unlikely that all the vibrating molecules of each object line up _just_so_ there is the possibility it could happen.

I postulate that our Saran Wrap may have conclusively proven the validity of String Theory by passing entirely through our kitchen cabinet, floor, and the better part of the earth. Even now, there is a Saran Wrap wedged some 14 miles down into the earth's mantle.

That is all.

[mbrogier]

it explains all the socks...

Did you consider the black hole theory??

[colleency]

MMM....jello cubes.

Maybe you could send Buckaroo Banzai to retrieve it for you.

[Kahlico]

This happens to sticky notes at work.

The first place I look is on my rear end.

I doubt that's where your box of saran wrap is.

[Schmee]

Do you have an animal that could have taken off with it?

I do stuff like that all time though, usually turns out that I put it away without even realizing I did it. Makes me feel like I'm going buggy sometimes! :eek:

[jtoepfert100]

This happens to sticky notes at work.

The first place I look is on my rear end.

I doubt that's where your box of saran wrap is.


ROFL! :D

Kahlico - your posts always make me smile throughout the day. Thanks!

[faygs]

I once drove myself crazy looking for a pencil that I had used just a few minutes earlier. Then I found it...I was holding it the whole time. Not one of my finest moments!

[Arete]

There was a Twilight Zone episode (the original series) that explained this. Basically, there are these blue men (think adult sized smurfs) that are responsible for assembling the "set" of reality from one second to the next. But sometimes, they screw up and forget to put one of the props in place. So usually, they just put it someplace else, and hope that you'll just think that you moved it and forgot. But sometimes... they really screw up and the people notice... and then, what to do without people figuring out what's going on? Better to just leave it out of the set for good and let people think that someone else lost it...

[Gilgamesh37]

I just did this last week with a ballpoint pen. Nothing expensive and not a big deal, except that I knew I had just had it right there on my desk. Spent the afternoon wondering which of my co-workers had made off with it.

Next day a colleague at another location emails me to say that she received the Fed Ex box I sent containing X, Y & Z. And "Hey, are you missing a blue ballpoint pen? There was one in the Fed Ex box.....:

[Kahlico]

ROFL! :D

Kahlico - your posts always make me smile throughout the day. Thanks!

:D :D :D :D :D :D :D

I aim to please!

[Kathy B]

I did something similar with a letter once. I was going crazy trying to find it because I had just had it in my hand! I told DH what happened and less than 2 minutes later he handed it to me! He told me where it was, and I couldn't even imagine why I had put it there.

I said "How did you find it?"

He said, "Easy. I just made myself think like you do!" :o


As for your Saran wrap, Escher, you just need my DD to come over. That child can find ANYTHING (as long as it isn't hers)! She truly has a built in detector of some kind. Offer her a reward of chocolate, and she will turn it up twice as fast. :p She's pretty handy to have around.

[Wendy w]

it explains all the socks...

Did you consider the black hole theory??

I thought of socks the 1st thing. It's so funny how you and I think alike sometimes. :p ;)

[Gecko]

Did you happen to check the freezer? Have have found some unusual missing items in ours - the strangest being one of my DD's toothbrushes.

[mom2garret]

OMG! Too Funny! I was going to say freezer also. Many things have been found that were not even food related. Also, I sometimes just throw things out then find them when looking in the last stupidest place I could think of: THE TRASH!. :o
Jodi

[Kay Henderson]

I did something similar with a letter once. I was going crazy trying to find it because I had just had it in my hand! I told DH what happened and less than 2 minutes later he handed it to me! He told me where it was, and I couldn't even imagine why I had put it there.

I said "How did you find it?"

He said, "Easy. I just made myself think like you do!" :o


As for your Saran wrap, Escher, you just need my DD to come over. That child can find ANYTHING (as long as it isn't hers)! She truly has a built in detector of some kind. Offer her a reward of chocolate, and she will turn it up twice as fast. :p She's pretty handy to have around.

Kathy, your story reminds me of an incident that happened to me some years ago. One morning I couldn't find my keys. I finally had to have a neighbor take me to work.

When I got home, my DH said, "I know where your keys are, but I'm just going to let you look for them."

"Well!" I said in a huff. "I'm not going to waste my time looking for a stupid set of keys! I'm going to get myself a diet Pepsi!"

I went into the kitchen, opened the cabinet door to get a glass, and there were the keys! That was my exact pattern every day, and my husband knew I wouldn't be searching very long.

Kay

[colleency]

I once ran into the house to look up a phone number. Then I couldn't leave, because my keys were missing.

Eventually we found them inside the phone book, which I had closed and put away.

[stacy7272]

I once drove myself crazy looking for a pencil that I had used just a few minutes earlier. Then I found it...I was holding it the whole time. Not one of my finest moments!
ROTFLMAO!!! This brought tears to my eyes!

DH can't find anything! Whenever he's looking for something I say, "Did you look right in front of your face?" :rolleyes: :D

[mbrogier]

ROTFLMAO!!! This brought tears to my eyes!

DH can't find anything! Whenever he's looking for something I say, "Did you look right in front of your face?" :rolleyes: :D

That's called "man eyes". Someone on a bb (I think this one) gave me that phrase. I use it on Rob all the time. :D

Wendy, it's the parrots. :p bird people are a totally different set of people.

[Blissful_in_TX]

Ahhhhh.....now I know what happened to my fancy foil cake board wrap. I've been looking for that darn thing since April. Maybe the String Theory is especially pertinent to food wrap related things?? :D

[AD]

My mother must have ideal properties to facilitate the string theory. She'll be the first to admit that she would lose her head if it weren't attached. I would say she spends over an hour of EACH DAY rummaging through bags, drawers, and closets for all kinds of things.

[mbrogier]

I just bought some BE cosmetics. I put them on in the bathroom and took the $11 bottle of lipgloss downstairs to the kitchen so I would take it with me to dinner. GONE. I've looked everywhere. I finally find the perfect color of lipstick and it slips into an alternate universe. Great. :rolleyes:

[Peweh]

I'm a firm believer in ghosts. DH and I moved last year into a house built in 1833 and encountered all these high-jinks we attributed to ghosts. We guess they were testing us then decided they liked us and have laid off ever since.

I remember it was HOT and I was looking for a hair clip to get the hair off my neck and couldn't find ANY even though I had 3 or 4 of them. I looked under beds, etc. The next day I woke up and there were 3 on the table next to my side of the bed. Said to DH did you put those there? NO.........

Also I had bought DH tickets to a concert which was coming up, I saw the tickets in a box I was unpacking in the office. The concert was the next day and I was asking DH if he could find a friend to go with him instead of me, I had all this unpacking to do... he couldn't, and this little snarl ensued and he asked what time the concert was. I went up to get the tickets I had just seen the day before and they were nowhere to be found. We dumped every box in that office out and rifled through every book and never found the tickets, to this day! The ghosts took pity on us!

[CL addict]

The Abominable Snowman is at this very moment wrapping HIS jello cubes with your Saran Wrap......

This thread is cracking me up! Thanks, everyone, for your great stories and theories! :)

Jeanette

[little_bopeep]

ROTFLMAO!!! This brought tears to my eyes!

DH can't find anything! Whenever he's looking for something I say, "Did you look right in front of your face?" :rolleyes: :D

Ours is: "I've been looking for that forever! Where'd you find it?"
"It was right next to the snakebite kit."