Am I the only scatterbrained imbecile who leaves things in vehicles when checking seats? Seriously, sometimes I wonder about my brain capacity. Why is it that I can memorize nitty-gritty, minute technical details relating to all facets of child passenger safety but I can’t remember where I put my camera? Or my sunglasses? Or my LATCH Manual?
Just this past weekend I had my camera at a check event and it was [seemingly] there one moment and gone the next. I thought maybe I put it down on the table and someone walked off with it. However, after a few phone calls that evening to parents whose vehicles I had been in – we found it. Duh!
In the past I’ve managed to leave my sunglasses behind twice, my LATCH Manual at least twice and once I even left my entire purse in someone’s backseat! Luckily they hadn’t gone too far by the time I realized my mistake and called them on their cell to come back. Even the other times, I’ve always been able to retrieve the misplaced items but sheesh! Enough already! What’s wrong with me?
For the record, I’ve always been like this – even as a child. I was the kid who lost her lunchbox practically every week. Gloves, hats and umbrellas never stood a chance around me and after a while my mom just gave up on replacing those items. Even a single shoe would frequently disappear in my house and I’d spend 30 minutes or more trying to locate one shoe when the other one was right by the door where it should be.
So, am I the only one in this boat? More importantly, is there any hope for me?
My husband just laughs because everything gets left. It always makes it’s way back to me, but there is not telling how many times we have had to go back to restaurants, changing room, stores and job sites. I have 3 pairs of sunglasses in my truck so I always have a back up pair for when I leave one of the others.
LOL…are you a little ADD by chance? I do the same thing, I constantly loose things or forget things that most people would remember. I blame it on ADD!
Oh no, I have a good one. I do seat checks at a retail store. I went downstairs to help a family, realized I needed pool noodles out of my car, got my keys and showed them the install.
When it was time to leave work and head home. . .no Keys. Guess where they were? In the customer’s backseat. . .ACK! They did come back and give them to me. . .thankfully!
Wow! I usually drop my stuff OUTSIDE of the parents’ cars, because I KNOW I would leave something. 😉
At least you only lost your camera. This morning I lost my van. Yep, in the gym parking lot. Being a creature of habit, I normally park in the same area, but I didn’t see my van there this morning, so I just started walking down my backup aisle and it wasn’t there either. Boy, I felt like a fool when it was there where I normally park it :O. Gah. I figured that was the clue I needed to come home and take a nap, lol!
I left my favorite sunglasses in someone’s car before. It must be something about getting older 🙁 .
I’m a little bit of a scatterbrain, so I’ve been known to take important steps not to lose my things. Like, for instance, take my sunglasses off and put them in the vehicle seat (nice and close so I don’t lose track of them, right?) so I could see to install better. And promptly put my knee on them and break them. Sigh.
I lost my LATCH manual at the last event I did; fortunately the people in charge had another copy they let me have. :p