Ok, I'm officially old or I have lost my mind!

[briarcreekguy]

So on Thursday, I came in from work and decided that I would do some work on the AR. I gathered up some parts, got my barrel wrench out of the box and headed out to the shop. When I came back into the house an hour or so later, I was going to put the wrench back in the box, which also had a carbine length gas tube stored in it, and I can't find the box! Now I live alone, and the dogs were outside, so they couldn't have moved it. I have turned the house upside down and looked everyplace that I might have placed the box. I'm about to lose my mind, I can't remember moving the box, and I'm at a loss. Do any of you guys have a trick for finding something you've misplaced? I hate to buy another gas tube, as I know that one will turn up just as soon as I place the order.

 

[Fyrtwuck]

Every house has a black hole that things hide in. You'll find it when you're not looking for it.

 

[twoguns?]

Start looking for something else.....(its in your pocket....;/)

 

[soonertodd]

It's always in the last place you look

 

[Sanford]

Check the refrigerator.

 

[ronny]

My method is to just forget it (Ha! I made a pun!) and then, one day when you least expect it, there it will be. And, you'll say, "there that thing is". "Now what was I gonna do with it". Works every time.

PS. I've done it a lot; I know whereof I speak.

 

[rhart]

Find a quiet place and get comfortable. Turn the lights down low and clear your mind. Now take a nap, but before you do tell your subconscious mind to remember where the box is. It helps to have a pencil and paper close by to write it down when it comes to you in case you fall back asleep.

 

[securitysix]

Check the refrigerator.

That was actually what I thought.

I also wonder if the OP accidentally carried the box to the shop and then took the wrench and parts out of it rather than leaving the box in the house and taking just the parts with him.

 

[druryj]

Every house has a black hole that things hide in. You'll find it when you're not looking for it.

I know where it is! It's the same place the missing socks go when they disapper from the laundry.

 

[rickm]

its laying in the last place that you laid it down at.