FRC: The Mystery of the Cheese Chair.

[joe]

Last night I was cooking up “refrigerator pasta,” throwing leftover everything into a skillet to toss with linguini. While the pasta was boiling I went out to the spare refrigerator in the garage for a wedge of Parmesan cheese. Minutes later, grater in hand, I swear I couldn’t find that cheese anywhere. I looked and I looked; I went back out to the garage several times, I cleared the counters, peeked under the table, then started huffing and swearing in exasperation because the linguini was now drained and getting gummy. Finally Jacques found it, outside, sitting innocently on a patio chair.

Usually when I find a lost item in a strange location I slap my forehead and say “Of course, I put it down when the phone rang/the dog got out/the guests knocked etc.,” but this time I have no clue. I remember taking it out of the fridge, but nothing after that. I wasn’t drinking (yet), the phone didn’t ring, the dog was sleeping, Jacques was in the tub, and no one dropped by. All I can figure is that after I left the garage, I simply placed the cheese on the chair and come back inside.

Do I have multiple personality disorder? Is this my first genuine senior moment? Are my loved ones conspiring to make me believe I’m going insane? Who in their right mind would put a piece of Parmesan on the patio and leave it there?

The chair has already been renamed “The Cheese Chair,” and so far, the answer to "Have you seen my_____" has been "Have you looked on The Cheese Chair?" I think it will be a while before I live this one down.

 

[rvb]

don't worry. i think it's just senility.

 

[cheezz]

That is SO incredibly funny... and hits waaaayyyy too close to home smileys/smile.gif

 

[misplaced-in-az]

Welcome to the club!!!!!! LOL

 

[pat-nocal]

LOL, welcome to being 50. ;o)

 

[curious1]

Sounds like a conspirancy to me, I'd take another look at Jacques and that dog, you're far too young

for senior moments.. smileys/wink.gif

 

[barb_b]

You made my night!! We have all been there!! I always seem to lose my wine glass!!

 

[meryl]

Yeah, my husband lost his glasses the other day. How does one look for glasses when one can't see

without them? smileys/smile.gif It took awhile, but luckily, I found them for him. Where? On top of the toilet tank - don't ask.

 

[richard-in-cincy]

Been there done that...The mystery of the chef knife during tonight's dinner...

I chopped an onion, smashed and minced some garlic, and was in the midst of dinner preparation when I reached for my big chef knife again, the one I had just been using and it wasn't there. I looked everywhere, dinner prep came to a stand still, and the knife had just vanished. "Richard, why don't you just get another knife?" said the hungry. So I reach for another knife in the block and there is my chef's knife. I had somehow washed it and put it away without knowing it. I never do that while I'm cooking!!!

 

[colleenmomof2]

And guess where I found my cell phone

I think it was some type of cosmic phenomenon last night - definitely not a series of senior moments!

I had to run after dinner, threw the few perishables into the fridge and dashed to the car. When I arrived at the meeting, I instinctively reached for my phone and it wasn't there. I know I picked it up??? I searched the car. Where did it go??? When I got home, I went from floor to floor calling from another phone and couldn't hear it ringing. Fortunately, dh found it because I had put it in the fridge next to the butter - no signal in the fridge! Colleen

 

[marilynfl]

The question is: did you remember what to do with the cheese once you found it?

 

[rvb]

oh. i thought maybe you had found it in your thumbnail.

 

[richard-in-cincy]

or maybe the fridge wasn't accepting "cold calls?" ; )

 

[dianem]

After searching for weeks for my cordless house phone, it turned up in the trunk of my car.

 

[joe]

LOL, Yes, thankfullly, but it took a while to re-locate the grater. I've found my wine glass

on the roof of the tool shed, my eyeglasses in the compost, my phone in the pantry, and my favorite coffee cup, months later, sitting on the gas meter, (the gasman must have seen it go through so many microbiological stages), but I'm always able to figure out how and why things end up where they do. This time it's MPD for sure

 

[rvb]

boo

(only cause i didn't think of it first.)

 

[lisainla]

I'm glad I'm not the only one to do this - repeatedly!

The worst is when I go to the garage chest freezer to get something, and either leave it or another item I had to move to reach what I wanted sitting on the ajacent workbench for the day.

My DH is usually the one who discovers it and says "Were you planning on making XXX for dinner?" smileys/surprise.gif

 

[luisa_calif]

How about when you take something out of your garage freezer to look for something else & forget to

put the other item(s) back in?

 

[CathyZ]

We need recipes that contain Ginko Biloba. Never seen it as an ingredient but always a first time