I'm like an absent-minded professor (without the PhD, that is). I have a very bad habit of losing things. Mr. Lorna calls it "the drop and go" syndrome. I'll be carrying something in my hand (glass of water, car keys, glasses, scissors, pens, pencils, camera, purse, and the list goes on and on and on) and because I'm thinking of something else, I'll set it down on my way to somewhere else . . . and forget where I put it. This means I spend a lot of time looking for stuff.
One of the things I lose the most is reading glasses. Now, if I only had one pair of them, it would be one thing. But I have at LEAST six pairs of them around the house. I keep them any place I like to plop down to read: The dining room, the living room, my office, the bedroom, the enclosed porch, and the family room. You'd think that with six pairs I would always have a pair available.
That would work if I didn't wear them on my travels to the kitchen, to answer the door, or wandering around looking for something else. So I take them off, drop them wherever and keep moving.
To fight the syndrome, instead of becoming much more efficient I've bought four more pair of "cheaters" (reading glasses). I have no idea where I'm going to put them (there are no safe places--I forget where I put stuff, remember), so it's a fair bet that I'll lose these in no time flat, too. (I've found if I have a glasses case in a designated spot (like my office or the porch), I'm better at putting them away.
Guess I'd better go buy some more glasses cases.
How about you? Do you have drop and go syndrome, too?
