A story with a moral

What are you like ??


Daisy !!!!!

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Put the crevice tool on your vacuum cleaner and stretch the toe of an old pair of tights or pop socks over it. That way, the earring won't be sucked up into the dust container. I hope - heard this tip but haven't tried it.

Thanks for the tip, Daisy. I read somewhere that if you say out loud whatever it is you've lost, you find it quicker. Makes you look like an idiot if there are other people around, but I'm beginning to think it works. Another good tip is, if you've lost part of a child's toy (works well with Lego, for example) if you take your shoes off and walk around for a while you'll soon find it.

The best bit of finding something lost that I know was when I was on holiday as a child with my parents in Italy. Another hotel guest came out of the sea and told us that she had just lost one of her contact lenses. My mother was just about to go into the water for a swim and said, "I'll keep an eye open for it". Everyone laughed – to my chagrin because children don't like people mocking their mothers, do they? Well, they had to eat their words or swallow their laughter because when she came out of the water, she presented the woman with her contact lens. I have no idea how she found it. I swear that witchcraft runs in out family.

Lily - Ouch! that sounds like the fruits of painful experience.

Absent

daisy Are you sure it not lodged on your clothing? Or fallen down your cleavage. I have had a similar experience.

Another good tip Daisyanswerdo is to tape some Sellotape ( other sticky tapes are available ha ha) to the bottom of the crevice tool with the sticky side out. Hey presto, fluff, hair, all sorts of rubbish and hopefully the earring !

Good luck. [ smile]

You must have an ample bosom Neiliemoser

Nelliemoser - I have had several instances of earring stud thingies drop down my cleavage! I think you'd feel a whole earring though...

Not an ample bosom. Just a large enough bra to stop the modest bit of bosom that is there, from reaching my navel.

AS it happens I was out with my camera last winter and as the batteries were going and don't work well in the cold, I stuck the spare lithium battery in my bra to keep it warm for when it was needed.
It was still there when I went to bed.

Since this thread has morphed into a bosom discussion, will I get a serious answer to my serious question about what happened to augmented bosoms when gravity kicked in?

lilyG I assume your "augmented bosom" question was on a different thread or I really have lost the plot.

I would like to add an aside to this bosomy thread to say that I have found my earring, by lying flat on the floor and waving a ruler around under my chest of drawers. That is, 'chest of drawers' as in wooden article of furniture - what is going on here?

Glad you have found your earring Daisyanswerdo. It's so annoying when you lose one of the pair. I tend to hang on to its lonely partner in case the missing one turns up, cluttering up the top tray in the jewellery box. then, eventually, it gets slung.

While staying with my brother I was putting in my earrings in the morning when I dropped the stud, hunted everywhere for it, down on all fours running my hand across the carpet - nothing. Looked again in the evening before going to bed, again nothing. When I got into bed I said a quiet prayer to my late DH asking him to help me find it. The next morning getting out of bed I immediately stepped on it!

Wasn't there a fashion for unmatching earrings recently? If not you could always start one.

Talking of which, Elegran, I went to a cricket match with exOH and both DSs a long time ago. They kept telling me that I was wearing odd earrings which I ignored as they frequently pulled a fast one by saying, 'Where's your other earring?' falling about laughing when I put my hands up to my ears to find that both earrings were there. So I was surprised - when I went to the ladies room and looked in the mirror - to find that I was indeed wearing one dark blue and one dark green stud!

Been there done that! Two totally different ones. No one appeared to notice though! Which makes me wonder why I bothered in the first place.

Earrings are mostly seen from the side - so if you kept your face turned sideways you could have a tiny gold stud on one side and a chandelier in the other.

Elegran!

On the subject of earrings, I have noticed that while I have no problem putting on the left one, I have to have a minimum of two goes – sometimes far more – with the right one. Why should this be when I had my ears pierced at the age of seventeen and should be well practised by now?