About missing stuff (of which I have a great quantity)
I believe someone ought to invent a very tiny mobile phone extension which you could attach to your keys, glasses, wallet/purse, loaned book/cd/tape ……
It wouldn’t need to have any speaking abilities. All it would need was to ring when someone phoned its number. Surely, since it would be such a little piece of technology, it could be smaller than a credit card or even smaller than a sim card? Then whenever you lost any of those small but important things you could just phone them. True, all your other small important things would answer too but this would just add to the surreal delight of phoning your keys (etc etc). I suppose you could have a different number for each one that you attached to things but I think it would be funnier to have a single one so whenever you lost your keys, all your small, precious things would answer, like saying “bingle bingle, I’m here, I’m here!!!”
And wouldn’t it be funny, when you lost your keys, all your friends would be ringing you back saying, “hey I just realised I’ve still got that book/CD/credit card/(what???)/coat you lent me. did you want it back?”
Imagine, if you like, entering a tunnel and seeing far away, the gleam of a distant light. the deep echoing thump of your engine drowns out the sound of the approaching boat
but as you get closer and deeper into the tunnel, the light becomes bigger and brighter and the echoes have an echo
then you notice that as well as the sound of two engines, growing louder all the time, and the brightness of the lights, there’s another sound which gradually clarifies into a third beat, of a …. Rock band???
(There ought to be another photo here but it won’t upload)
Louder and louder, the beat of a different drum drowns out the engines and as you are still being astonished and just able to make out the gesticulating figures, attired in a decidedly anachronistic way,
it booms past you, rattling the roof ,

We had to admit, the tunnel was a very effective amplifier!
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