Bizarre Happenings in My Kitchen ~ Very Tiny True Story
About 10 days ago, I picked my camera up off of my kitchen table, but I had carelessly left the battery hatch open. All 4 batteries went to the floor. Well, it sounded like they all did. I reached over to get them, and even got my *reachy-grabby* stick to get one that fell and rolled, and went way under my kitchen table. I found 3 without any problem. The fourth one was nowhere to be found. I turned over every paper, scissors, pen, external hard drive etc. on my table. No sign of it. I thought maybe it rolled under the refrigerator. I got a flat stick and probed under there...NOTHING! I was getting very frustrated because it could not have just disappeared into thin air. I tried not to think about it for awhile, but I was obsessing about where it might have fallen. I re-looked several times in all the places I had already tried. There was even a tiny pair of bronzed baby shoes on my table, because I had photographed them for a project. I said to myself, "Self, you don't suppose the 4th one could have fallen into the opening in one of the baby shoes?" I looked and again, nothing! I even went through every speck of trash out of my wastebasket to see if that was where it fell.
Again and again, I looked to no avail and then tried to think about other things. This went on several times a day for about 8 days. I was getting more and more resolved to the idea that, if I wanted a spare set of 4 camera batteries, I would have to buy a new set. But I held off for awhile. I was watching a TV show the other night and reached way up high in one cupboard to get some Pringles BBQ flavor potato chips to snack on. I had already had some out of the can previously. I sat in my chair with the can in my lap, and was paying attention to the show. I rather mindlessly reached in to get some chips. The opening was not very big for adult sized hands, and I wasn't going by looking but by feeling. I got a few chips and felt a sort of cylindrical shaped thing. I thought at first maybe it was one of those tiny little cylinders that help absorb moisture. I quickly realized it was longer than one of those and it was cool to touch and felt heavier than one of those. I wasn't totally sure if they would put one of those in a food product anyway. I pulled it out, realizing within seconds that it was my battery I had been looking for all week. I must say I was a bit shocked to find it in my potato chip can. I hadn't even remembered snacking on them the week before. I guess the can was open when the batteries fell, and when I put the lid on and put them away in the cupboard, I certainly didn't look nor notice the battery had fallen in there. And all the times I looked for it, it never dawned on me that it was in something I had removed from the scene not long after it fell.
THE END
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Tenuous Link: really barbecued >> not really barbecued (just BBQ flavor)
Bizarre Happenings in My Kitchen ~ Very Tiny True Story
About 10 days ago, I picked my camera up off of my kitchen table, but I had carelessly left the battery hatch open. All 4 batteries went to the floor. Well, it sounded like they all did. I reached over to get them, and even got my *reachy-grabby* stick to get one that fell and rolled, and went way under my kitchen table. I found 3 without any problem. The fourth one was nowhere to be found. I turned over every paper, scissors, pen, external hard drive etc. on my table. No sign of it. I thought maybe it rolled under the refrigerator. I got a flat stick and probed under there...NOTHING! I was getting very frustrated because it could not have just disappeared into thin air. I tried not to think about it for awhile, but I was obsessing about where it might have fallen. I re-looked several times in all the places I had already tried. There was even a tiny pair of bronzed baby shoes on my table, because I had photographed them for a project. I said to myself, "Self, you don't suppose the 4th one could have fallen into the opening in one of the baby shoes?" I looked and again, nothing! I even went through every speck of trash out of my wastebasket to see if that was where it fell.
Again and again, I looked to no avail and then tried to think about other things. This went on several times a day for about 8 days. I was getting more and more resolved to the idea that, if I wanted a spare set of 4 camera batteries, I would have to buy a new set. But I held off for awhile. I was watching a TV show the other night and reached way up high in one cupboard to get some Pringles BBQ flavor potato chips to snack on. I had already had some out of the can previously. I sat in my chair with the can in my lap, and was paying attention to the show. I rather mindlessly reached in to get some chips. The opening was not very big for adult sized hands, and I wasn't going by looking but by feeling. I got a few chips and felt a sort of cylindrical shaped thing. I thought at first maybe it was one of those tiny little cylinders that help absorb moisture. I quickly realized it was longer than one of those and it was cool to touch and felt heavier than one of those. I wasn't totally sure if they would put one of those in a food product anyway. I pulled it out, realizing within seconds that it was my battery I had been looking for all week. I must say I was a bit shocked to find it in my potato chip can. I hadn't even remembered snacking on them the week before. I guess the can was open when the batteries fell, and when I put the lid on and put them away in the cupboard, I certainly didn't look nor notice the battery had fallen in there. And all the times I looked for it, it never dawned on me that it was in something I had removed from the scene not long after it fell.
THE END
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Tenuous Link: really barbecued >> not really barbecued (just BBQ flavor)