A seventh sense?

Isn’t this how most wives find what their husbands have missplaced?

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Oh harsh :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: !
men don’t miss place things. These very important ‘things’ are generally left in strategic piles en route from a to b via loads of other strategic places. (Normally from car door to fridge and vica versa).

( I have a ‘box of shame’ (a small metal hinged box) where I permit myself, and where my wife forgives me secreting car keys, keys, broken plugs, oven light bulbs, screws nails and other very useful things)
Oh, I also have several ‘drawers of shame’ full of prize winning conkers and string.

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How interesting @MikeyPotts - my partner has a “folder of doom” where evrything important gets shoved - I often have to search through it for important documents, bills etc. The problem is that the folder fills up quickly and then there is another folder of doom and the first one disappears somewhere


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That made me chuckle as most on the Londoners I know/knew barely didn’t have the sense they were born with, let alone and extra one.

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No, they achieve that by being the person that “tidied up” the object their husband can’t find and “put it somewhere safe”.

That sounds a bit like OH’s filing system. He wants to put everything under ‘I’ for information. :joy:

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Well, next time anyone is sunbathing on a sandy shore it’s time to find out if you have that 7th sense of touch.

I found the 6th sense of touch more interesting. With closed eyes I touched the tip of my nose with each finger, one by one, on both hands, and in slow motion, especially in slow motion, and found the tip of my nose each time. How does the brain guide a finger in the dark to that exact point of the body? It can’t see the finger or the tip of the nose yet performs without fail.

The scientific answer doesn’t satisfy. I prefer to think of it as magical! The brain is a ball of magic created by nature, over millions of years.

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haha - I have that, plus a ‘desk of doom’- I pile it up and like a volcano, if it is important, it will squelch out the side. :slight_smile:

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Proprioception isn’t it? You know where you are which is how you get through doors etc without thinking about it, and why teenagers who suddenly grow are clumsy and always bumping into things, because their navigation systems haven’t kept up with how much room they take up. I think ability to catch a ball or dodge one or catch the parallel bar etc is part of the same thing.

But some people clearly have a defective system and are always bashing into things.

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It’s not my fault, its the car not knowing how long / wide it is :rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

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I know it sounds a bit hard to believe but there must be more to it than meets the eye.

In my working days making maps for developers, we were required to show the location of services, such as gas, electric, water etc. Often there would be no surface clues to their location and any records kept could no always be relied upon.

We used to use two pieces of bent wire, each one inserted into a biro (with ink barrel removed) to serve as handles. As you approached a buried cable or main with the wires pointing forwards, there would become a time when the wires crossed over. If you continued walking, the wires would uncross. The mid distance between crossovers indicated the location of something buried and the distance between crossovers would indicate depth.

Since surveying is very strictly controlled with checks and counter checks we could only show this information if it was labelled "indicative only*. Nevertheless our clients would report the information was surprisingly accurate when they verified it by digging around the services during development.

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A few years ago when our village was stricken with a phone and internet outage (that lasted about six weeks in our case), and BT OpenTrench could not find where the breaks in the cable were by exploratory digging, they eventually resorted to getting in a dowser to find the problem!

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I misread that at first and could wait to find out the nature of the outrage you were subjected to. :grimacing:

Well you are not wrong David - that six weeks without phone was fairly outrageous!

And I am constantly outraged - any small thing can set me off
 :smiley: :smiley:

Mostly UK banks at the moment


A company I once worked for were in trouble briefly, having lost the paper records for their final accounts. Until the office junior suggested looking under F. C’est vrai.

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In our house, Stuart wants things filed under ‘U’ for Useful Information. On the other hand I tend to file under ‘M’ for Miscellaneous. And then we do have another file - ‘P’ for Pending 
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Years ago, I filed a £50 note in a safe place thinking I would remember where I put it. Twenty years later, I still haven’t come across it !

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@Rachel05 this flyer was on my daughter’s car today - enterprising person! I immediately thought of you. There may be someone similar near you.

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Shouldn’t there be a SIRET on that ad ? I think it’s not legal to omit the SIRET or SIREN at least from written advertising. Unless this person is able to operate without one ?

Using Universal Energy.

We are surrounded by it.