Have you seen my glasses? [Found]

[DaveC426913]

I used to hate that adage. I once was looking for something and, though I eventually found it, I kept looking anyway, just to put the lie to that saying.

 

[JT Smith]

It's such a common thing. I put away something a couple of months ago and can't remember where I put it. I've looked at all the places it should be and it's not there. Did I throw it out by accident or hide it from myself? My guess is that it will turn up eventually but I'll probably have to buy a new one before that happens.

For some things it's worth having a backup. Glasses can break as well be misplaced.

 

[davidjoe]

I am completely stumped. We all are.

On Friday night, I came in from the backyard, checked the clock to see that it was 12:45, took my meds, did my ablutions and went to bed. I took off my glasses and put them on my night table, as I always do.

In the morning, my grandchildren (five and two) came in and had a pillow party, which involves jumping on the bed and rooting around in all the drawers.

When I got up, my glasses were nowhere to be found. The five year old swears she did not hide them. I believe her (she knows how to read a room).. The two year old is too young to interrogate.

I know I had them on when I came inside the night before - because otherwise I would not have been able to read the time on the clock. I only went to my meds cupboard and the bathroom before bed. I am almost certain I had them in bed, else I would not have been able to see the TV.

When I got up, I dd my ablutions before going back or my glasses, and that's when they weren't there.

Over two hours, six of us tore the bedroom apart, then the whole house. We checked everywhere at least six times. Every drawer, nook, cupboard, bin, under every table, in every piece of furniture, toybox, the recycling box, the garbage and even the floor vents.

I've torn the room apart. They're just not in there.
The only reason we suspect the to-year-old at all is because it's the only other possible answer. We have a pretty clear idea where he got to and where he didn't and we;ve checked them all - and everywhere else as well.

So there are only two possibilities: either

• they are still in the room, near the bed, or
• the 2-year-old moved them

But 2-year-old don't hide things; they pick things up, and then see another shiny thing, and drop the thing they're holding. It' nowhere a 2yo would drop an object.

And besides, we've searched every possible place anyway.


I'm desparate. I'm looking for fresh ideas where/how to look in a way we haven't already tried.

I didn’t read every post. The grandkids are the difference in your normal routine, right?

Is it possible that your glasses got broken in the pillow party, or perhaps they were taken and played with, and as a result got damaged?

As a kiddo, if I damaged something that was hard to explain, the thought would have occurred to me to put it where the damage wouldn’t be seen.

Edit, glad you found them!

 

[DaveC426913]

Is it possible that your glasses got broken in the pillow party, or perhaps they were taken and played with, and as a result got damaged?

I know you saw the outcome but , to address your question: we had considered the kids.

The 2yo is too young for that kind of trickery, and the 5yo was quite sincere and concerned and we were all satisfied that she was telling the truth and ruled her out.

Glad we did - and assured her so. She has a lifetime ahead of her of the potential for being wrongly accused (especially having a younger sibling); we don't need to plant that seed of neurosis before its time.

 

[Jonathan Scott]

We have a family saying that works almost every time:

If you can't find something, look in the first place again, only harder.