The search had some beneficial side effects, however. In a corner, tucked neatly between a laptop bag and a stack of books, was a crumpled shopping bag from Gander Mountain that was a little heavy when picked up, due to the unopened 17-rd M&P 9 magazine and the 525-rd carton of Federal .22LR contained inside. Huzzah! That's about like finding a forgotten $100 bill in an old coat pocket these days...
Books. Bikes. Boomsticks.
“I only regret that I have but one face to palm for my country.”
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Buried treasure...
In the tradition of Albert Einstein, I managed to probably throw away with the junk mail misplace my monthly stipend check. I tore through the house yesterday, searching all the likely locations to no avail before doing the one thing that is sure to make it turn up again: Call the issuer and have them put a stop payment on it and mail me a new one.
The search had some beneficial side effects, however. In a corner, tucked neatly between a laptop bag and a stack of books, was a crumpled shopping bag from Gander Mountain that was a little heavy when picked up, due to the unopened 17-rd M&P 9 magazine and the 525-rd carton of Federal .22LR contained inside. Huzzah! That's about like finding a forgotten $100 bill in an old coat pocket these days...
The search had some beneficial side effects, however. In a corner, tucked neatly between a laptop bag and a stack of books, was a crumpled shopping bag from Gander Mountain that was a little heavy when picked up, due to the unopened 17-rd M&P 9 magazine and the 525-rd carton of Federal .22LR contained inside. Huzzah! That's about like finding a forgotten $100 bill in an old coat pocket these days...
It's sad that, at current prices, that's not even the slightest bit of hyperbole there.
ReplyDeleteI did something like that a couple of months ago.
ReplyDeleteWas digging around in my gun room, and found what I thought was an empty .30cal can that was VERY heavy for being empty. It contained a brick of .22, a box of .45, and two boxes of 9mm. I gave future self a present from past self! Thanks past self!
Well, aside from the fact that the $100 bill would weight significantly less than those.
ReplyDeleteBought a 94/14 Swede using a Postal money order. Guy called and said he'd received it. Called back some time later and asked if I still had the tracking number as he had thrown out the check by accident. I had thrown the receipt away by then and when I talked to the post office they couldn't help as I'd paid with cash and had no way to track it. I didn't know what to say to the guy. :(
ReplyDeleteAs both Spider Robinson and Steve Moffat have pointed out, we're all time travelers with but the one forward gear and no reverse.
ReplyDeleteI've SO done that. Shifting through a box of stuff that was set aside looking for... something... and finding a shopping bag with ammo or some other this or that that I had picked up because gun stuff.
ReplyDeleteNobody who knows me would be surprised, I've always been a bit scatterbrained.
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I actually did that with $100. When going to a gun show, I divide my money up into different pockets. It's amazing how much of a discount you can get if the seller thinks that he's getting all of your cash, not knowing that you have a few hundred more in other pockets. One cold late fall evening, I "found" $100 in the pocket of a coat that I hadn't worn since an early spring gun show.
ReplyDeleteI recently lost my new Hi-Standard Sentinel and turned the place upside down. It took about four hours to fight through the ravages of senility and check the range box.
ReplyDeleteBut I never lose checks any more. Untouched by human hands, they go directly to the bank. This is an act of social responsbility, easing the burden on the IRS and other dedicated public servants assigned to supervise my monetary habits.
I sorta did that the other day.
ReplyDeleteWas sorting for sale some empty 223 brass, which I'd been saving for a while.
I've got a crate which, another life ago, I split with a buddy when we bought CETME's (and...how I wish I'd kept that beast), and used to hold 5, 200 round battle packs of 7.62 Nato. It turned into where I set my casings, some neatly replaced into their boxes, and some just sorta dumped.
Two of the 5, 50 round "bulk pack" from Winchester felt a tad heavy. They were full.
Score! 100 rounds I'd forgotten! Or...stashed for a future rainy day.
Sorry can not relate as I have never misplaced a single thing in my life.
ReplyDeleteI have had a large amount of items stolen or moved by underware gnomes. That happens almost daily.
Gerry
Lost track of a 1911 for an embarrassingly long time. Found it in a zip-lock baggie, disassembled, in a box of old carburetors in the basement. Still unexplained.
ReplyDeleteMore than that, actually. At least in our neck of the woods up by Cleveland. At last week's Medina Fun Show, .22LR was going for $100 a Brick to START, and an M+P Magazine? Fudgettaboutit!
ReplyDeleteIf those paragons of public decency in the US House and Senate get their way, Kyle and Jim could be made into felons for not reporting their missing guns in 24 hours. That is common sense gun law. /sarc
ReplyDeleteYou sure you didn't lose it in order to talk to someone of the opposite sex like Bruce Willis in RED? :)
ReplyDeleteCongrats on finding the other misplaced goodies. Sounds like a celebratory range trip is in order.
Oh and add me to those who have misplaced a firearm.
ReplyDeleteMy NAA Guardian broke its extractor the first and only time I fired Blazer aluminum case ammo in it.
I set it aside to send back to NAA later and then let life distract me for awhile.
When I went back to actually send it I couldn't remember where I put it.
This went on for months until I found it tucked in a closet while looking for something else.
Since you obviously don't need that 17 round M&P mag I'll gladly take it off your hands for what you paid for it. Hey, I'll even pay for postage!
ReplyDeleteJimBob
Look mommy a spambot.
ReplyDeleteJust keep moving and don't make eye contact.
Joe
A few years ago I turned my apartment inside-out looking for a shoulder rig for a 1911. Didn't find it, but did find an 870 that I didn't remember having. Finally came up with where it came from about six months later.
ReplyDeleteReturning home after a late night cross-state drive, I went straight to bed...... woke the next AM to find my Carry gun was not in the safe ...... last place I remeber taking it off was ...... Truckstop bathroom 150 miles away!!!!!!! OH CRAP OH CRAP OH CRAP!!!!!!!!1111111!!!!! After a few days of sulking and self loathing over the loss of a $1K gun, I went into my reloading room and there it sat on the bench in it's holster, right where i'd left it ...... Dunno why I took it off there, don't remeber even going in there.
ReplyDeleteAs for finding a 17 round magazine you forgot about ...... What about all the instant felons in Colorado that find such a "present from thier past self", six months from now?
Colorado is now well and truly screwed: all the fredom loving people are leaving, or planning on leaving ASAP. Colorado will become another Blue State bastion..... :,,(,
...like another California, only closer.
"That's about like finding a forgotten $100 bill in an old coat pocket these days... "
ReplyDeleteNo, it's more like leaving a $20 bill in that pocket and finding a $100 bill.
Nice offset, and hope the stipend shows up soonest!
ReplyDeleteI know the feeling. I was digging around looking for some Mini-14 clips I knew I had, and I found 5-25 round 10/22 extended magazines I had bought at least 10 years ago and forgotten. Still were in their factory wrapping.
ReplyDeleteCame here looking for the "direct deposit" comment. Was not disappointed.
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty sure I tossed my favorite Spyderco out with the trash one night while car camping in Yellowstone.
Bummer. Had to make due with the Leatherman for the rest of the trip.
-SM
I thought I lost KelTec P32 12x while on a trip to see Tam, but it was probably stolen by the woman Byron hired to clean his house. (You never saw a green P32, did you?)
ReplyDeleteJohn
I was once going through my 7mm mag ammo getting ready for a hunt trip. Found a box that was so light it felt empty...Almost threw it in the trash. Good thing I looked inside, as it had 40-$20's rolled up in the place of ammo !! Forgot about that $800 bucks that I had stashed ten years earlier as part of another hunt trip. Rewarded myself with 40 box's of 7mm...worth a bit more than $20 each now I'd say.
ReplyDeleteSpud, I'll bet you WERE happy.
ReplyDeleteBut not as happy as this guy
Memory's starting to go; I don't do things like this anymore. I think...
Wife-[ attempting to help]; Where's the last place you had it .
ReplyDeleteMe-IF I KNEW THAT I'D JUST GO THERE AND PICK IT UP...
I do that almost every day. Fortunately not with a check yet.
ReplyDeleteI take whatever small comfort I can in A.A. Milne's statement, “One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.”
I like days like that.......
ReplyDeleteI recently found a complete AR15 lower I forgot I had