A story with a moral

When I first wore contact lenses they were the old fashioned hard ones that lasted indefinitely and were expensive to replace. I became incredibly efficient at searching almost any surface, although mainly carpet, to find them. They didnt just land flat, they would land sideways in the carpet pile, down the edge between carpet and wall, stick to the sides of furniture and jars of make-up. I once fond one in my hair.

The skill has remained with me, although I do not wear contact lenses anymore and whether or at home or staying with family, if anything small gets dropped on the floor I will get called in to find it.

Perhaps it's more than just being right handed?
Below, a load of bull really but a bit of fun too? Which are you Absent?

www.mindbodygreen.com/0-3793/Left-Brain-vs-Right-Brain-Infographic.html

Orca Mostly right-handed but bilingual for some things. Obviously not putting on earrings.

Absent you must be right handed?

Another trick is to walk around in your bare feet , you'll find it then, I did and the earing[?earring] imbedded into my foot - lucky me

I was once on a training course and noticed that an older lady was wearing only one (very big and long, colourful) earring so asked if I could help her to look for the missing one. She replied that no, she hadn't lost the earring, but that she only ever wears one because it prompted people to talk to her. She lived alone and said that over the years she had had some wonderful conversations and actually made new friends because of her 'missing' earring. She turned out to be a very interesting woman.

I find that too. I put it down to my being right-handed.

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?

Elegran!

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.

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.

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!

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

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!

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.

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?

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

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?

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.

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

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

You must have an ample bosom Neiliemoser

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]

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

Absent