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May
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Lost and Found
Filed in Bits & Pieces Fridays
Did you ever lose a favorite toy? Or find something really bizarre? That’s the theme of today’s Bits & Pieces questions, so let’s get to it…
1) Did you ever lose a toy when you were little? What was it? And did you ever find it again?
2) What’s the strangest thing you’ve ever found?
3) Is there an item that belongs to someone in your household that you wish would get lost? What/Why?
4) Do you have any superstitions (like tails-up pennies, etc) related to objects? What?
~Elizabeth
May 21st, 2010 at 10:37 am
This week we found a rusty metal tube in the front yard and a green glass pebble in the drive-way. Very strange…I wish my husband’s ear buds would disappear. Have a lovely weekend!
May 21st, 2010 at 10:48 am
I’ll bite on the second one. Last summer I was walking down a country road, and I found an artificial Christmas tree. It had been dismembered, and its little limbs were scattered in the gravel. Struck me as surreal, it being 90 degrees out, the vegetation dead, and here are blue-green branches. That’ll turn up in a story someday.
I also turned up a sediment-encrusted key in the Gulf of Mexico a few years ago. It sits on my bookshelf, waiting for a rusty lock…
May 21st, 2010 at 11:48 am
I had a book once – All I can remember about it was it was a blue and white reader probably second grade and there was a story about a walk in the park in the dark…
I found a Liberty head dime the summer I was in second grade and we were camping. I lost an ankle bracelet one year and found it the next year when we were camping.
Supersitions? Like not having a Ouiji board (just asking for trouble in my opinion…) I found a saying that all found pennies were wishes for us from heaven (kind of like a glalactical wishing pond) so I pick up all the luck I can get.
Items I wish would get lost? Besides the big Wanted cloth poster hanging in our office?
May 21st, 2010 at 12:07 pm
LOL, Sharon on the ear buds. I’m not a fan of them in teenagers ears, either. Joe, I think the rusty key…and the eventual rusty lock is a story (think YA).
Lynn, I’m with you on avoiding Ouiji boards. No way. And I LOVE the idea of the pennies being wishes for us from heaven. Nice!
here’s mine:
1) I had a Gumby doll (yes, I’m dating myself) I adored when I was little. Took it to the big (and I mean, BIG like a football field or two) town pool one summer. Gumby sank. The bottom of this pool was sand. Gumby disappeared never to be seen again (even after the pool was drained for winter). Sigh.
2) Do story ideas in strange places count?
3) Cell phones at times. I’m not a fan of the constant intrusion of text messaging.
4) My aunt used to have this supersition that surrounded leaving the house without something. Meaning, if she forgot her keys…she had to go in, get them, and then sit for 10 minutes before she’d leave again. I’m not sure I have ones like that but I kind of believe in signs.
May 22nd, 2010 at 1:48 pm
I’m a day late, as usual,lol.
1) When I was little I had a security blanket. It was constantly getting lost and/or hidden by my older cousins.
2) I can’t really think of anything…
3) No, Chris loses enough stuff that he then gets frustrated looking for quite enough, thanks…
4) I kind of believe in signs, too. When I got on the plane to come meet my Chris for the first time, they had a music video playing on the DVD screens. It was “Amazed” by Lonestar, and it turned out to be prophetic…Chris and I were married a year later.
May 24th, 2010 at 8:10 am
Shel, I love “Amazed,” too. Track 6 on their top 16 CD. I play it again and again and again. Neat story, thanks for sharing that!