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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LOL HOLY moley I was scared just looking at the photos and wondering WHAT in the world was coming at you.
I do hope it was at least a GOOD beat.
The last photo sorta looks like a dental xray. LOL Or maybe that’s just my sympathy pains for all you had to go through last week…..which I hope isn’t repeating itself!
Yep, not just rattling the roof Mel but also the teeth. It was a very good (if echoey) beat and there was LOTS of it! Our crew were divided between the “if they want to play loud music why don’t they go and do it somewhere else?
” camp and the “ooh what fun can we play too? 
” kind.
Lemme know when you invent that very tiny mobile phone extension, please?
*sigh*
*sigh* too.
A friend who knows lots about mobile phone technology told me today that it couldn’t be much smaller than a regular mob because it would need space for batteries and it would cost around £60 to produce. I think it’s time those R&D people went back to their drawing boards.
Mini-Teen is always losing her mobile phone – we ring it, but never hear it as she forgets to charge it, so it’s always out of battery!
but I’m liking your idea lots – think you could patent that!!!
super uber cool photos of the tunnel experience. . .
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Youngest always vanished in mid phone call for the same reason. And her batteries were constantly getting burnt out. On the other hand, she was frequently given old (but well maintained) phones by her boyfriends who seemed to be constantly buying new phones – possibly so they could give her their old ones!
I would lose (have lost) the mobile on which to phone all the other lost items and also I wouldn’t remember the number. **thinks** I would need a waterproof watch that did the ringing! I never take my watch off It’s the only thing I know the location of, I just can’t tell the time because I’ve lost my glasses
I’m getting my eyes tested today ziggi. Then when I get some new glasses I’ll be able to find everything again. Including my glasses.
Howdy!
Just a quick hello unrelated to your post entirely. (waves!)
*waves* and big hugs Shot. Lovely to see you
xxx