Losing Things

Its a sign of advanced wisdom. (Notice, I didn't say age) and it has been happening often lately. My glasses, keys, phone and this morning my hat. A number of years ago, George Carlin did a bit on losing things. If you haven't seen it, do yourself a favor and watch it on YouTube.

This morning I was going on a bike ride and I couldn't find my hat. I looked in the car, in the garage, upstairs, back in the car. As I went through the frustrating motions, an old family joke came to mind. Years ago we lost a dust-buster and after that when ever we couldn't find something, we would jokingly say, "Maybe its by the dust-buster" 

We had received the dust-buster as a premium for reaching a parts sales quota from Ford. We received many premiums over the years. In 1978, we receive a porta phone. It was about ten inches long and had a clip to hang it on my belt. Since I wore about ten hats at the dealership, it was handy for me. Customers were curious about it as most had never seen one. Often, they would want to call their home to see how it worked. Many would say they wanted one so that they wouldn't have to pay a phone bill. They didn't realize that it had to be plugged into a phone line. 

We had used the dust buster around the dealership for a year or so before it disappeared. It had a charge base and that was also missing , so some one must have needed it more than us.

This morning, after having gone up and down stairs several times. I Found my hat. It was under some pillows on the coach. The dust-buster wasn't there.