Stuff moves

Some of the sun glasses found in the search.

We were together one rainy afternoon, when I reached for a bowl and noticed the shelf was tilting. One of the plastic holders had fallen and disappeared. It would be reasonable to assume the plastic thing would be somewhere near. It was not. No problem, I thought, I have a sack of those doo-dahs which have been in the same place for 30 years. Naturally I went right to that sack and repaired the tilting shelf. Ok, so actually in my search I found 50 or so partly burned candles, 4 bouncy balls, a yo-yo, an old calculator, 2,440 crayons, old phone books, two holders for plastic bags, gum, lemon Halls, balloons, a Manor Bread fruit cake tin, 5 pairs of sun glasses, 6 pairs of reading glasses, a compass, a hole punch and then I found some real junk. However, no plastic shelf holders. I know they are around here, but right now the shelf still tilts.

How can these things happen all the time. I really do not believe someone sneaks into my house to confound me by moving my possessions, that would just be too silly to contemplate. Therefore my conclusion is that stuff moves on its own. Gloves, glasses, ear-ring backs, phones, finger-nail clippers, keys---all hide when you need them. Then they sneak back into place so you will find the former needed item sometime when you are looking for something quite different. So my shelf will remain tilted until a future date when I am desparately needing a comb or paperclip, and instead I will find the sack of plastic shelf doo-hickeys right where they should have been all along. As I said, "stuff moves".