Old man moment

Tomme boy

Tomme boy

Well-Known Member
Well I have been racking my brain ever since I got my new 357 with where the brass I had stashed went. Well I found it tonite. Right where I put it. Now I have looked at this box probably 100 times. I just passed it over each time I was looking. Now why would I look in a box marked 9mm brass if I was looking for 357 an 38 spec.??????

I remember now. I had just got done loading the last of the brass in that box for my 9mm. I was cleaning up several buckets of other brass that was not sorted yet. So I took all the brass that was 357/38 and threw it in the box to clean and sort later. Well I forgot to write down what was really in the box!

And it was right where I put it so would not forget where I put it. Well anyway, I now have 436 357 and 371 38 spec in separate tumblers right now getting cleaned.
 
Bret4207

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Years back I bought something like 3K rounds of 303 Brit surplus ammo. Couldn't find it anywhere for the longest time. Where was it? Under my duck decoys! How it got there I have no idea. I think sometimes I must just completely zone out. This was near 20 years back, not like I was an old man forgetting things then!
 
glassparman

glassparman

"OK, OK, I'm going as fast as I don't want to go!"
I do that all the time . . . look right at something thinking it's not what I want and then later I find it there!

I swear it is gremlins moving stuff on me!
 
  • Like
Reactions: Ian
CWLONGSHOT

CWLONGSHOT

Well-Known Member
I just was looking for some brass yesterday. Pulled one bug box out it was the large plastic screw top plastic bottles I have been looking for for months. Then a box labeled 9mm brass full of .... 7/30 brass????? Why we do the things we do...
 
Rick H

Rick H

Well-Known Member
Don't feel bad. I worked for a brilliant investigator, with a terrific analytical mind and absolutely the best interviewer/interrogator I ever saw.......he would routinely lose his eyeglasses. He would eventually find them perched on the top of his head. We would let him go on searching for them, opening desk drawers, pouring through file baskets and generally cursing the world around him. Better he unleash his frustrations that way.
 
J

Jeff H

NW Ohio
Don't be so hard on yourself, Tomme.

As we get older, we have that much more crap to sort through. scrutinize, consider, compare in our HEADS, just like in the shop, basement, garage, reloading room,...

Younger folk are so much quicker at coming to conclusions or finding things because they have so much less accumulated to sort through.

In their HEADS, just like in their shop, basement, garage, reloading room,...

At least that's the philosophy I share with my students when they laugh at me for forgetting what I was just talking about.;)
 
Snakeoil

Snakeoil

Well-Known Member
More than once, I have been cleaning up an area in the shop and put stuff away that has been hanging on a nail for 30 years. As I put the stuff in a new spot and out of view so the place looks neater, I always say to myself, "I know I'm not going to remember where I put this when I need it.". And so far, I've been right 100% of the time. :headbang:
 
smokeywolf

smokeywolf

Well-Known Member
Moved 3-1/2 years ago. Been looking for several dozen, maybe as many as 100, 58 cal Minie balls for the past 2 years. I know they got packed as I remember looking at them in a glass jar and thinking, 'better transfer to some other container or I'm going to have glass shards and Minie balls all over the place'.
 
JWFilips

JWFilips

Well-Known Member
I got to write everything down and then hope I don't forget where I left the notes!
I had one of those moments today when I went to my shelves of cast bullets to do an inventory of what I need to start casting. On those shelves are Big Wooden cigar boxes that my photo associate used to bring for me. Perfect storage boxes....Everyone is labeled with the caliber and cast number on them with Yellow tape and a black sharpie. So you can tell at a glance what you have . when the box is on the shelf upside down I know they have to be cast again.
Well looking over the shelves today I notice one of my favorite Cast target bullets The NOE 30 caliber 165 grain Ranch Dog box was missing!
What the #@%&! Ok where is it I can remember taking the last batch of bullets out and it should be on the shelf upside down....but NO!
Looked all over for it ....even came up and complained to my wife! Like she would be responsible :rolleyes:
Look as hard as I can and still nothing! Then I started ripping stuff apart to find it
WELL! I found it on the bottom of my "working bullets" rolling cart! Why I never returned it to the shelf I will never no:headscratch:
 
Snakeoil

Snakeoil

Well-Known Member
Snakeoil said:
More than once, I have been cleaning up an area in the shop and put stuff away that has been hanging on a nail for 30 years. As I put the stuff in a new spot and out of view so the place looks neater, I always say to myself, "I know I'm not going to remember where I put this when I need it.". And so far, I've been right 100% of the time. :headbang:
Click to expand...
Well, it did not take long for this very practice to bite me again. Broke a bolt off with an electric impact wrench. That's a first for me. Bolt must've been made from cheese. So, I have this set of left handed drills with matching bolt extractors on the other end. A Christmas present from years ago from my cousin. I used them this summer after years of staring at them on my bench. They work great. Went to get them for today's bolt and no longer on the bench. Looked everywhere. My only guess is I took them to the lake this summer and they are still up there. But I honestly do not even remember where I used them this summer. Got the bolt out anyway. Drilled the bolt and drove a torx bit into it. Backed right out.
 
S

shuz

Active Member
Im still looking for 2-1/2 lbs of bar tin that I put away after last using tin to make up some Lyman #2.
I don't take any solace in knowing that I' ll find it in the last place I look, either!
 
glassparman

glassparman

"OK, OK, I'm going as fast as I don't want to go!"
I HATE getting rid of things because, you know . . . just as soon as you give it away or throw it out . . . that's right! You WILL need it! LOL
 
Snakeoil

Snakeoil

Well-Known Member
glassparman said:
I HATE getting rid of things because, you know . . . just as soon as you give it away or throw it out . . . that's right! You WILL need it! LOL
Click to expand...
Oh yeah. And that extends to friends as well. More times than I care to remember, I'll be telling someone about something that broke or wore out and I doubt I'll find another only to have the listener or someone overhearing the conversation say, "Gee, I just threw one of those in the trash last week. Nobody wanted it.".
 
Mitty38

Mitty38

Well-Known Member
Trying to remember where I put a white tall kitchen garbage bag of 20 guage shells right now.
I don't have many things that size stored because of lack of space. And getting my storage cleaned out so I have one less payment. I should just trip over it looking. But no.....
 
fiver

fiver

Well-Known Member
man,, i was wonderin why i had so much 220 swift brass.
as i turned the one plastic shoe box around it was clearly labeled as 25-06 brass on the other side.
wonderin where all those cases had gone.

hey,, at least i label stuff.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.