Pet peeve I have with my son and misplaced items......drives me nuts
Locust Fork
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I think its just a habit he has, who knows how or WHY he does this......but......anything at all that he cannot find is chalked up to being "stolen" all of the time. Its never missing, misplaced, fell somewhere, or will ever show up again in our lifetime.....its just stolen.
It can be something that is with him one minute and gone the next while HERE at the house, and he will start ranting about how someone stole his whatever it is. He misplaced a red dot around Christmas and insisted it was stolen. He left some holster at his buddies house and didn't realize it, of course it was stolen. He can't find a bipod he had for his AR15, stolen. All of those things turned up eventually.....of course, never admitting anything at all about how nutty he acted when each of these things were gone.
Currently he has a pocket knife that is "stolen" and I'm going to give him heck when it turns up. Grrrrr
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40 yrs ago, stopped by my Dad's on my way to the hardware store to see if he needed anything. He asked what I was getting- told him I needed a mower blade, and a couple of screwdrivers. Puzzled, he said "Don't you have some good screwdrivers?" Said yes, but my 7 yr old was using them- and I found them by hitting them with the lawnmower.
Dad looked at me, smiled, said "You just made me SO happy..." Then I remembered.
If one reads your post carefully, there is a great story there. Thanks.-------------Ray
he needs to find some new friends if they steal that much stuff LOL
as for the lawnmower and tools .. been there and experienced it way too many times .
even got a real nice dent in a truck door thanks to my youngest son and one of his buddies that use to scrap / part out cars and trucks in my back yard . amazing what a piece of steel propelled by a spinning blade can do not to mention how many mower blades I bought .
hind sight I would have been money ahead to just paid them not to tear down the cars with my tools and in my yard
Many years ago when I was still in Indy, my eldest son (about 14 at the time) took every hammer I owned. I found this out years later when he came clean. He and some pals tore down a little gas station. It was at the closed Shank Airport on W 38th St, Indy. They were lucky that they didn't get caught or really hurt as they leveled it. He didn't even bring my hammers back home! And some wonder why I drink beer.
This boy has never had one thing actually stolen from him in his life....its just his "go to" when he can't find something. Its like he cannot imagine a world where he would walk away from an object and not remember where he sat it down or when he truly last saw it. Larry started locking things up to keep the kids out of his tools. He swears its their fault, but he has lost WAY more things himself than they have actually borrowed. I saw him looking for something this morning. I knew better than to ask what it was.....its just best to walk away and hope for the best.