h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Oh, Smudger, that is so familiar to me. I do not LOSE things, I mislay them, and sometimes can't se them even when I am looking at them. You expressed the feelings so very well.

Some time ago I had a dream (I never normally dream) that I had lost my handbag, and you know how ladies are with their handbags, but do you know it took me a couple of hours after waking up to get it too sink in that it was a nightmare and not real.

The panicky sick feeling took most of the day to shake off

So glad you found your phone, that would have been a bit of a disaster!

Good to see you writing again.

Websailor

Hello Smudger and you too Websailor, yes I know the feeling exactly! The few times I lost my car keys ... but always found them again. The feeling of thinking I'd lost my ID booklet. I found that again as well. But the time that my car was actually stolen was the worst.

An excellent description of a common human predicament,
well told and inspiring many sympathetic memories.

The most significant point here for me was the act of
sitting down on the ground in a final kind of defeat
only to have this unlikely (and possibly unseemly) act
be the cause of your liberation.

I'm not just saying as many people do, that things are
always found in the last place you look - though there
is a perfect balance of realism and cynical humour in
that saying - but rather that it often happens for me
that only when I exhaust myself sufficiently in a search
and my body tells me to relax that it also puts me into
a posture or position which allows the eye to finally see
via a new perspective, a trick of the light or an unlikely
angle of approach.

The subconscious mind is a wonderful thing!
We must learn to trust it more instead of wearing
ourselves out with rational or methodical procedures.

~jwf~

Well said, jfw - I must remember that, if I can remember where I have put the thought

Websailor

Thanks for all your posts folks, much appreciated.

My wife once bought me one of them key rings, that make a noise, telling you where the item is, when you clap you hands.

It was a great wee thing, until the battery ran out.....and I lost it., thanks again folks, its good to be back again.

Smudger.

Hello, sorry I'm late. What a marvellous piece of writing this is smudger.I think making your audience connect so easily with what you are writing is a real skill, and you have executed it perfectly. Reminds me of the time I nearly lostmy mother's car.

Ah! thanks for that, much appreciated.

That gives the incentive to keep going, as that was my first Snippet in ages?

I was going to give some lame excuse, like I've been too busy looking after Mk2, but the truth is, I've been lazy!

If I knew that folk like yourself really enjoyed them, I would have made more effort, so after reading your post, I will do just that, thanks for the vote of confidence

Smudger.

In case I haven't said this recently:

Smudger Snippets are great!

We at really appreciate stories like these.

Smudger, keep writing!

I am feeling guilt now Smudger, because I haven't written for ages. Can't seem to get motivated with all the things going on in my life. I don't even have your excuse any more!

I genuinely do enjoy your snippets so please carry on.

Websailor

Thanks for your posts folk, they have really motivated me to get writing again.


Smudger.