#1192 – Flush
Posted on January 5, 2011 at 12:00 am by Chris
Chapter: Comics
I remember being a kid and being frustrated when there would be some object that I couldn’t find. I know it’s somewhere in the house! Why can’t it just yell out and tell me where it is? I now own things that can do that. My son dropped the iPod a few weeks ago and it slid under a table without anyone knowing. Instead of searching in all the wrong places for it I simply went to a website and made the iPod yell out and tell us where it was. Now if only 99% of the other things in my house had that feature.
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Talking houses are not so new. I read once that on his death bed, one of the things Oscar Wilde said was: “This wallpaper is killing me. One of us has to go.” Come to think of it, that’s not talking, but let’s be thankful that so far only the ROOMBAS are going around and doing things for us.
I need a wallet and a set of car/house keys that’ll do the same thing as your kid’s iPod.
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When I was little, my mum lost her engagement ring. Don’t ask me how. And then, 3 months later, I was playing with a giant travel-bag (we were moving at the time) and out it fell.
Everything lost will turn up sooner or later. Apart from my sister’s hat, which she managed to lose while looking over the edge of a tiger/liger exhibit (they weren’t banned back then, obviously).
~Gwid
The biggest rule to finding lost things: stop looking for them. You always find something you lost when you’re looking for another lost item.
The rule in our house was that anything lost would show up as soon as you replaced it.
infra: Same here. The day you replace something – BING! It pops up int eh place you already checked 300 times.
@ Noir: so does my husband. And his glasses. And his sunglasses. And the remote. Come to think of it, everything he owns needs to be able to yell out like Chris’ son’s ipod.
I read a book a while back (I think by Cory Doctrow?) that had a nice solution. Some kind of tiny RF transmitters were sprayed onto anything that you might lose. When you did, you went to your computer and told it to tell you where in the house the item was. Now if only we had tiny RF transmitters.
I always find that I look in ridiculous places while looking for lost objects. Places where it is impossible to be, like looking for your keys behind books and under rugs. Well, they’ve gotta be SOMEWHERE, right?
~Yuki~
remember key chains you could whistle and they would respond? not great for hide and seek.
Ew
I rarely lose things like I used to. I wish I could find my missing plastic Care Bear figurine. (It was of Share Bear, “after SARS”)