Why do things Disappear.

Sithdarth · 06-10-2004, 11:34 AM

This is a problem that has been vexing my for a while. From socks to cds to whole books. Things just seem to disappear around me never to be found again. Hell I even moved and completely took apart my room and still didn't find some things that had gone missing. Recently I went looking for my JavaScript book and couldn't find it. I turned my room upside down and a few other places to boot. You know what I found, two CO2 Cartridges and my pocket knife that I had packed away and forgotten. I know that book was in my room last time I saw it. Now it just seems to have vanished. Anyone else have this problem and any theories on where the stuff goes?

cellar_door · 06-10-2004, 12:01 PM

that happened to me i discovered that i went sleepwalking and was putting them
1) out the window
2)right in the back of a cupboard that its realy hard to get at (i have to stand on my bed and nearly throw things to get in it if there aint no seat to stand on)
3)under a pile of clothes in my wardrobe
4)on other floors in the halls

just an idea

Fifthfiend · 06-10-2004, 12:17 PM

Spontaneous fractures in the fabric of reality.

CDs'll just fall right through those, I tell you.

Sithdarth · 06-10-2004, 12:17 PM

My window has a screen on it so thats out.

I have no cupboard in my room I do have a closet that I checked.

I picked everything off the floor in both my closet and my room wasn't there.

I checked pretty much every room in the house the rooms I haven't checked it wouldn't be in. Plus I'm pretty sure I don't sleepwalk.

Its completely strange. I have lost two MTG decks to this as well. They just sort of disappeared on day after I put them up. Pens and pencil seem to fall prey to this pretty quickly too. Sometimes I'll find things much later but usually if I spend as much time looking as I did for that book then its gone for good. Its like I have my on personal Bermuda Triangle. Perhasp one day I'll fall prey to this as well. At least then I'll know where everything went.

Martyr · 06-10-2004, 12:27 PM

Do you have a sister?

Sisters will often walk into your room without permission. If they see something interesting, like a book, for example, they may take it to the couch to read and then leve it under the cushions...

Not that you'll get anything out of them if you ask. No tortue can make them talk. (Because hey really have no clue. Once the book isn't in front of them, it has ceased to exist. Much like you when you are not in your room.)

Toastburner B · 06-10-2004, 12:34 PM

My friend had an answer to this. According to him, all questions along the lines of "Why does this happen?" have one answer:

Spite.

Why do things dissappear? Spite. Why do I sleep walk? Spite. Why does Toastburner B keep posting stupid things? Spite.

See?

Sithdarth · 06-10-2004, 12:47 PM

I have a sister but see hates the music I listen to and the books I read. The only reason she ever comes into my room is to steal my PS2, Xbox, or Gamecube. Other than that she leaves my stuff alone.

Perhasp evil aliens are taking random stuff from my room and observing my reactions. If I ever find out that it was there are going to be some pretty big green splatters on a few walls. Although I like the fractures in reality ideal. Now if only I could use that to extract usefull items from other realities.

cellar_door · 06-10-2004, 12:53 PM

well if you dont sleepwalk there is only one answer god is bord, hes bord and he hates you. really what else is there for the big guy to do

IHateMakingNames · 06-10-2004, 12:57 PM

Or, you remember wrong and you took it somewhere else.

Sithdarth · 06-10-2004, 01:02 PM

Thats just it though. I don't remember wrong. My shorterm memory is pretty much nonexsitant but my longterm memory is flawless when it comes to useless info like where I set something down last. Of course if I moved it sometime in the last week than I have no ideal where it went. Anyways I took that into consideration and turned the whole house upside down. Every room except my parents bed room and my sisters. This is not a new problem, many things have simply vanished on me like socks in the dryer. It would be funny if it weren't so damn annoying.

06-10-2004, 11:34 AM	#1
Sithdarth Friendly Neighborhood Quantum Hobo Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Outside the M-brane look'n in Posts: 5,403	Why do things Disappear. This is a problem that has been vexing my for a while. From socks to cds to whole books. Things just seem to disappear around me never to be found again. Hell I even moved and completely took apart my room and still didn't find some things that had gone missing. Recently I went looking for my JavaScript book and couldn't find it. I turned my room upside down and a few other places to boot. You know what I found, two CO2 Cartridges and my pocket knife that I had packed away and forgotten. I know that book was in my room last time I saw it. Now it just seems to have vanished. Anyone else have this problem and any theories on where the stuff goes?

06-10-2004, 12:01 PM	#2
cellar_door wishes he was bob dylan Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: scotland Posts: 85	that happened to me i discovered that i went sleepwalking and was putting them 1) out the window 2)right in the back of a cupboard that its realy hard to get at (i have to stand on my bed and nearly throw things to get in it if there aint no seat to stand on) 3)under a pile of clothes in my wardrobe 4)on other floors in the halls just an idea __________________ theres beauty in everything its up to you to look hard enough cellar door

06-10-2004, 12:17 PM	#3
Fifthfiend for all seasons Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 19,409	Spontaneous fractures in the fabric of reality. CDs'll just fall right through those, I tell you. __________________ check out my buttspresso

06-10-2004, 12:27 PM	#5
Martyr Whatever Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Around. Here, there... Posts: 838	Do you have a sister? Sisters will often walk into your room without permission. If they see something interesting, like a book, for example, they may take it to the couch to read and then leve it under the cushions... Not that you'll get anything out of them if you ask. No tortue can make them talk. (Because hey really have no clue. Once the book isn't in front of them, it has ceased to exist. Much like you when you are not in your room.) __________________ Behold the Nightmare

06-10-2004, 12:53 PM	#8
cellar_door wishes he was bob dylan Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: scotland Posts: 85	well if you dont sleepwalk there is only one answer god is bord, hes bord and he hates you. really what else is there for the big guy to do __________________ theres beauty in everything its up to you to look hard enough cellar door

06-10-2004, 12:34 PM	#6
Toastburner B Toasty has left the building Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Hiding...because I don't want to die. Posts: 3,936	My friend had an answer to this. According to him, all questions along the lines of "Why does this happen?" have one answer: Spite. Why do things dissappear? Spite. Why do I sleep walk? Spite. Why does Toastburner B keep posting stupid things? Spite. See?

06-10-2004, 12:47 PM	#7
Sithdarth Friendly Neighborhood Quantum Hobo Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Outside the M-brane look'n in Posts: 5,403	I have a sister but see hates the music I listen to and the books I read. The only reason she ever comes into my room is to steal my PS2, Xbox, or Gamecube. Other than that she leaves my stuff alone. Perhasp evil aliens are taking random stuff from my room and observing my reactions. If I ever find out that it was there are going to be some pretty big green splatters on a few walls. Although I like the fractures in reality ideal. Now if only I could use that to extract usefull items from other realities.

06-10-2004, 12:57 PM	#9
IHateMakingNames Awwwwh Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 12,119	Or, you remember wrong and you took it somewhere else. __________________ "If I'm reincarnated, I want to be Musashi again!" - Musashi, Brave Fencer Musashi

06-10-2004, 01:02 PM	#10
Sithdarth Friendly Neighborhood Quantum Hobo Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Outside the M-brane look'n in Posts: 5,403	Thats just it though. I don't remember wrong. My shorterm memory is pretty much nonexsitant but my longterm memory is flawless when it comes to useless info like where I set something down last. Of course if I moved it sometime in the last week than I have no ideal where it went. Anyways I took that into consideration and turned the whole house upside down. Every room except my parents bed room and my sisters. This is not a new problem, many things have simply vanished on me like socks in the dryer. It would be funny if it weren't so damn annoying.