That Moment When...

Yeah you are, but I did spend a 20 minutes looking for my car keys and gave up and rode my bike. Didn't find them for 2 days(i don't get out much) . They were in my freezer . Don't ask.

David, there's a TV commercial currently running which uses exactly the same occurrence to illustrate the onset of Alzheimers. Just sayin'

Whenever I can't find something, I always look in the fridge. ;-)

This is why I bought two. One that stays in my bag everywhere I go with batteries and one that is always on the charger.

Mmmmmm note to self, next time I can't find husband look in the fridge....

Yep...I've done something similar. I was doing a recording session on location. Got there. Started unloading all the gear...and realize I had everything except the computer! doh!


Then there was the time, I got the call on the golf course asking where my car keys were. In my pocket of course....except my buddy had driven me to the golf course and my car was blocking my wife in the driveway! Doh!

I could keep going...

Happens to the best of us!

Matt

A few years ago I returned to England to see my family there. I arrived at the ferry terminal after driving about 150 miles up France and discovered that I had forgotten my passport. I had to drive back to get it. 450 miles in one night after working all day - not recommended.

I left a camera and a couple of lenses in my car overnight - they didn't stay in the car - it's been a few years ago - but I'm pretty careful about not leaving anything in a vehicle overnight - or with the car unlocked.


To get anything in the freezer - you'd have to take something out - we really do need to start using the frozen stuff before it 'expires'.

hhahahahahahahaha Dorothy!

Just last Sunday we took our granddaughter to the zoo with the express purpose of getting pictures of her there. You would not believe the gear I organized - even prepared a larger backpack than usual so there was room for our picnic lunch (concession food is outrageous). Got there and . . . you guessed it. Had everything but the camera. Emptied all the extra lenses and gear out of the backpack so it wouldn't be so heavy and set off to have a great time anyway :)

Prescription sunglasses on top of car. Drove off and didn't know it until I got home from mall. Thought I'd just lost several hundres bucks. Got an email from an unknown guy who saw the glasses case on his way to mall in center of road but figured it was empty. On his way home saw the case was still there in road, stopped and picked up case with glasses in it unharmed. I got them back in an hour.

Now here's the twist. About a few months earlier while on an errand, I witnessed a car turn a corner in front of me while I was sitting at a stop light. When he turned, a brief case came flying off the top of his car. I was able to get to it as the light changed and gathered up the contents, finding some business cards inside with other stuff.. Got the brief case back to a very grateful guy. These two combined incidences made me a true believer in the Law of Increasing Returns which states:

"Anything you do to or for someone will be returned to you many times over in your life time." My glasses were, I'm sure, worth many times more than what was in that brief case!

Bill Tomsa

http.//billtomsa.blogspot.com/

I was out shooting with a 4x5 view camera in a rocky, hilly area of a state park. For those who don't know, you focus a view camera on a ground glass sheet on the back of the camera with a black cloth over your head and the camera so that you can see the dim projected image. You also use a hand-held magnifier (a loupe) so that you can see the fine focus as you make adjustments.

Anyway, I had set the loupe on a nearby boulder, and somehow, it was knocked off (I can be a klutz). It was nowhere to be seen, and without it, I could forget about focusing critically, which is the whole point of lugging around the heavy view camera. It was then that I was struck by a stroke of genius. I found a small rock about the same size and shape as the loupe. I put it on the boulder and then knocked it off. I watched as it bounced and bounded downhill, finally coming to rest right next to the loupe, which had ended its own journey under the edge of a rock. I never would have found it without my little stroke of cleverness, which really saved the day.

Murray---Brilliant!


Bill Tomsa

http://billtomsa.blogspot.com/

So, I called my wife and we managed to meet for me to get my camera and then head downtown where the train was going to be. It was one like I shot a few weeks ago with the second largest rail car in the world. Only difference, it was lovely today and there was (is) a slight chance of getting a shot or two published out of it. Got downtown around nine and luckily the train was still there. In fact, it didn't leave until after 2 pm. I was actually able to go home and start on some slow cooked chicken and rice and mac and cheese and then get back downtown and shoot the breeze with a few other photogs.

Have yet to find my camera in the fridge. But I could see it happening.