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...that's it's no surprise for him to regularly lose important paperwork, if he insists on not using a briefcase, and just carrying his papers round in a bundle under one arm?
Have just taken a harried phone call from MrQueen. He wants me to drop everything, and search the house high & low for some papers, and a bank paying-in book, which he appears to have lost. The Queen household is ruthlessly tidy, and a quick glance ascertains there are no loose papers, or paying-in books in the vicinity.
Mr Queen is utterly confounded that he managed to lose them. He is always confounded that he has managed to lose anything. In the 7 years since we married he has lost:
*Numerous coats and jackets
*A lap-top
*A digital camera
*2 expensive mobile phones
*His passport
*A car (a BMW to be precise).
*Numerous bank cards/wallets.
I point out to him that it's of absolutely no surprise to me that he has managed to mislay some paperwork and a paying-in book, and WTF doesn't he use the rather nice briefcase I bought him for Christmas 3 years ago??? To which he replies that he is 'too busy' to be messing about putting things into briefcases all the time...can someone please explain the logic in his thinking???
Too busy to put paperwork into a briefcase...but not too busy to spend half a day back-tracking and trying to find missing paperwork???
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D78 - welcome to my world...
MrQueen has a fascinating and tempestuous relationship with his passport. He has managed to lose it many times both in this, and other countries. He has spent several hundred pounds getting it re-issued each time.
Another one of his 'Adventures With Passport' anecdotes is when he went on a stag-do to Prague. The rule was that everyone had to travel dressed as Elvis. MrQueen was sporting a fetching white satin jump suit, complete with cape and jewelled belt a la Elvis in his Vegas hey-day.
There was much fun and frivolity at Gtawick, as fellow passengers smiled in bonhomie at the 28 Elvises all enjoying themselves. Not quite so much fun and frivolity when 27 Elvises boarded the plane, leaving VivaLasVegasElvis behind because he'd managed to leave his passport at his brother's en route to the airport.
Cue, one very sad, lonely looking Elvis sitting in departures for a further 11 hours, waiting for the next available seat on a plane to Prague. Also cue fellow passengers no longer looking on in bonhomie, but looking at him askance assuming he was some sort of pitiful Elvis fetishist...
MrQueen has a fascinating and tempestuous relationship with his passport. He has managed to lose it many times both in this, and other countries. He has spent several hundred pounds getting it re-issued each time.
Another one of his 'Adventures With Passport' anecdotes is when he went on a stag-do to Prague. The rule was that everyone had to travel dressed as Elvis. MrQueen was sporting a fetching white satin jump suit, complete with cape and jewelled belt a la Elvis in his Vegas hey-day.
There was much fun and frivolity at Gtawick, as fellow passengers smiled in bonhomie at the 28 Elvises all enjoying themselves. Not quite so much fun and frivolity when 27 Elvises boarded the plane, leaving VivaLasVegasElvis behind because he'd managed to leave his passport at his brother's en route to the airport.
Cue, one very sad, lonely looking Elvis sitting in departures for a further 11 hours, waiting for the next available seat on a plane to Prague. Also cue fellow passengers no longer looking on in bonhomie, but looking at him askance assuming he was some sort of pitiful Elvis fetishist...
LOL at "woman looking" bran!I knew there had to be a name for it!
Lemony -- the key reason my DS2 plays a euphonium rather than, say, a nice little clarinet is that it's very hard to lose something suitcase-sized. Even in this house.
He's lost everything else on your list bar the Oyster cards, though.
He's lost everything else on your list bar the Oyster cards, though.
Bloody hell, I can see DS heading the way of your H, LeQueen....
FIVE Oyster cards since September 08. TWO door keys since September 09. Coats, school ties, school books, socks, blazer (which we got back), school jumpers, the list is endless.
He then has the temerity to shout that he'd given me his Oyster card. Needless to say he got a clip round the ear for being rude to me.
FIVE Oyster cards since September 08. TWO door keys since September 09. Coats, school ties, school books, socks, blazer (which we got back), school jumpers, the list is endless.
He then has the temerity to shout that he'd given me his Oyster card. Needless to say he got a clip round the ear for being rude to me.
Poledra, lifting things is known as "woman looking" in our house. DH doesn't do it, DS knows what it is but would rather I did it for him.
God this is such a funny thread - I cannot believe someone managed to lose a car!! I have one of those DHs who tends to lose things in the house but only because
a) we are all messy, so there are lots of things lying around and
b) lifting said things to look underneath them neve occurs to him....
a) we are all messy, so there are lots of things lying around and
b) lifting said things to look underneath them neve occurs to him....
Glasses are tricksy though.
I moved to Dubai almost a year ago and am now on my 9th pair of sunglasses since arriving.
I moved to Dubai almost a year ago and am now on my 9th pair of sunglasses since arriving.
seven pairs a year!lawks a mercy
ABetaDad - I've got that aspect covered. DS and DD are both adopted so not genetic link to DH, and neither of them are prone to losing things. 
As an added bonus DD looks promising to be a tidier, she'll have plenty to tidy as the rest of us are terminally messy.
stuffitllllama, we buy job lots of glasses for DH when we go to Malaysia as they're so much cheaper there. I reckon he goes through about 7 pairs a year, and he always has a pair or two that are held together with tape or missing an arm as he just drops them in silly places (sofa, kids' beds, on the floor by the shoe rack). Perhaps I should persuade him to have his eyes lasered.
As an added bonus DD looks promising to be a tidier, she'll have plenty to tidy as the rest of us are terminally messy.stuffitllllama, we buy job lots of glasses for DH when we go to Malaysia as they're so much cheaper there. I reckon he goes through about 7 pairs a year, and he always has a pair or two that are held together with tape or missing an arm as he just drops them in silly places (sofa, kids' beds, on the floor by the shoe rack). Perhaps I should persuade him to have his eyes lasered.
bran we do that ..lots of cheap watches and earrings and tbh am not allowed to take an umbrella out any more
lol at" fasinating and tempestuous" relationship with passport
lol at" fasinating and tempestuous" relationship with passport
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