The cluelessness of the Wombat

[speaker_to_customers]

I’m home from a night at work, watching the rerun of last night’s darts championship coverage, and the Wombat & Daughter-Dear have gone into town for last-minute Xmas shopping.

The phone rang a few minutes ago. Wombat: “My watch has fallen off somewhere. When you go to bed could you check it for the watch? I can’t think of anywhere else it could have come off except in bed.”

It’s a cordless phone, it was a gap between darts matches, and so I went straight upstairs and checked the bed. No watch.

“Oh,” said the Wombat. “Where else could it be? It must be near the bed on my side. Unless it came off when I was scraping ice off the car.”

The watch is one I bought her as a birthday present and it’s pretty special. Incredibly slim and rather beautiful. Definitely not something either of us would be happy about losing. I was about to head off outside to look at the space where the car had been when the Wombat said “I’ve found it. Daughter-Dear's just pointed out that I’m wearing it.”

I asked her how she could lose a watch she was wearing.

She replied “I was looking on the wrong wrist.”

Comments

[kazzy-cee.livejournal.com]

*snorfle!!*

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

Ouch!

[cat63.livejournal.com]

I will not mock, as I am something of a Doer Of Daft Things myself.

And besides, I'm still giggling at one of my other LJ friends, who, in a befuddled state of flu, put the laundry on top of her lizard's tank and the lizard's dinner of lettuce in the washing machine....

[gamiila.livejournal.com]

Thank God for that! As you say, it is a lovely watch (I've seen her wearing it in pictures) and it would have been a shame had she really lost it.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I've done things like that, so no mockery here.

[quinara]

I've definitely been known to do the odd 'where are my glasses? ... Oh, I'm wearing them (god, my eyes are taking a long time to wake up today)', so I definitely laugh with instead of at when I say HEE!

[arclevel.livejournal.com]

I do the opposite. I go to remove my glasses to get into bed or the shower, only to find that I'm grasping at my cheekbone and forehead, and maybe *that's* why everything's so blurry!

[quinara]

Oh, that's reassuring when that happens! The other way round is just a bit depressing...

[kathyh]

I've lost my glasses on the end of my nose, so I can't say anything :)

[cal-turner.livejournal.com]

Hee! :D

[gillo]

She is wonderful. She is also very likely to get her revenge by telling us stories about you. ::sits back expectantly. With popcorn::

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

No, no - after all you all know about the cheese that looked like ham, and the amazing discovery that you can turn things over and toast them on both sides under the grill. Not to mention alternative uses for the breadbasket...

And I have to admit that I still didn't actually notice I was wearing it - D-d said, as I spoke on my phone to him, "Mum... You're wearing it!"

[slaymesoftly.livejournal.com]

ah, ah - not mocking the Wombat. I can totally relate and sympathize with the whole thing.

[petzipellepingo.livejournal.com]

Hee!

[ayinhara.livejournal.com]

I could do that too!

[miso-no-tsuki.livejournal.com]

Been there,done that.
When I was in Kyoto with serena_inverse I staggered down to breakfast put my hand out to collect my miso soup and rice balls and noticed I did not have my engagement ring on. *Panicked* Since we are without bilingual guide and I knew damn well my Japanese wasn't anywhere equal to the task of asking the hotel staff about it. The ring has never left my finger except for hospital stays so *uber-panics and flails*.
Daughter suggests going upstairs and looking in room, so up I go.After searching admittedly minuscule floor area and bathroom (also mini-mini-scule) Looks in bag where I put my earrings and stuff at night.There is ring.*collapses with relief*.Apparently I just took it off and stashed it on autopilot the night before. Short term memory? What Short term memory?
And a merry Xmas to you all!

[averageshmoe.livejournal.com]

You are a brave, brave man to post this and thanks for sharing.

[vikingprincess]

I'm sure that if I didn't absolutely require my glasses to see, that sort of thing would happen to me quite often. I lost them on the (two foot square) bathroom counter the other day while applying makeup, and had to have my husband find them for me (because Braille wasn't working - so once I had them, the next step was to clean off the counter!).

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Speaker to Customers relies on his wife under such circumstances... Well usually...

[vikingprincess]

*grin* I have been known to point out to my husband, as he searches for a pencil, that he has one behind each ear already.

[fenchurche.livejournal.com]

ROFL!

Although it sounds like the sort of thing I'd do...

[drakontaskyria.livejournal.com]

We women have our own logic and it's up to men to learn it and understand it - the same way we do theirs! ;-)

[cordykitten]

We are all a prisoner of our habits *g*
At last it wasn't lost.

[desdemonaspace]

Hee! That sounds exactly like something I'd do. Sounds like a lovely watch, too!

[wildecate.livejournal.com]

snicker

Pandora's Boxer

[v-chan-paradise.livejournal.com]

Just a short post to say some people are still longing to see the next book of this fabulous story.
Go on with your great writing!!!

Happy new year!

Re: Pandora's Boxer

[speakr2customrs.livejournal.com]

Thank you, but I'm afraid they'll be disappointed. I've no intention of writing the follow-up. My writing has taken different directions, and I'm no longer interested in doing rewrites of Seasons 5 and 6, and the Season 8 comics have dealt a fatal blow to my Spuffy leanings. The only non-crossover story I'm interested in continuing is 'Came the Thunder'.