In terms of not being able to locate important items… The worst thing is when I can’t remember where I put my glasses, and wear my contacts (and then it’s the opposite – need to wear contacts but can’t find them)..

I used to be kryptonite around electronic goods, and could do strange things to computer hard-drives without leaving the word processing programme. Computers regularly would have funny reactions (I once went through 4 hard drives in a year on a work computer), yet somehow the electronic goods world and mine have now reached a good working relationship, and this no longer happens with such frequency.

Also sunglasses never last more than a few months with me. Most often I step on them. I don’t know why they’re on the floor – I’m not that untidy – but there you go.

@Fex: I have heard of melting menstrual cups before, but flames! Well done!

annimal, this family owns approximated fifteen tape measures of various sizes. At any given time it will take at least twenty minutes to find one.

After going through a pair of sunglasses every two months for twenty years or so, my mother was given a two hundred dollar pair by my father, to see if that raised her consciousness enough that she stopped losing them. It tripled the amount of time she kept track of them. Which is still a pretty big loss.

I’m fine with in-ground outdoor plants, but indoor plants are doomed when they move through our door. And decorative planters die an ignoble death as fast outdoors as they do indoors.

The flaming menstrual cup: It’s an embarassingly simple story. I put the pot on the stovetop to boil, and forgot about it until I smelled smoke (50 minutes later or so). Those things give off a good six inches of flame! This might be another good reason to invest in a microwave (and a non-glass bowl…)