Men/women, finding stuff, the poll

[nursey]

The best result I find is screaming about the place that said item has vanished, then sit down and go back to where I first looked in a frenzy and find it. Or delegate to a calmer person with same result. Never fails.

 

[Ms T]

In our house there is "the boy look". Which means looking for something for about five seconds before declaring it lost.

 

[geekpenguin]

I tend to be pretty fastidious when it comes to putting things away - in my room, I have a particular place for everything (and yes, that does occasionally include the floor ) but at least I know where it should be when I come to find it later. It's the rest of the house that like to hide things away where I can't find them again and then they have the cheek to say *I* lost it when they were the ones that moved it in the first place.

I've extended my need for a place for everything to the rest of the house recently, and it gets really annoying when people move things, either out of a need to get on my nerves, or because they have their 'own places' for things that I am not aware of...

 

[wtfftw]

He doesn't really look for anything. Just cuts straight to asking which will invoke sods law and the 'lost' item right in front of him or is sod is on holiday I'll know exactly where said item is even though I haven't touched it.

I don't lose anything, even if someone has moved it within a foot of where it was.

(it's like my really rubbish special talent. I wish I could sing but instead I can even find items in other peoples houses).

 

[Cloo]

Once we have shelves sorted in our front room, I'm thinking of instituting a 'Where the Fuck?' box... if I have to put something away from the sofa/floor etc, it goes into the 'Where the Fuck?' box. Problem solved!

Yeah, right.

 

[High Voltage]

I am a bloke, I "look" for something immediately in front of me and can't see it.

Then ask Mrs Volts "where the fuck is XXXXXXX"

and she says.

"What this?>??" and immediately picks XXXXXXX up and hands to me..


Still I earn more than her . . . . now!!

 

[Cloo]

Still I earn more than her . . . . now!!

Well, there aren't any roles, high paid or otherwise, for people who are good at finding keys, wallets, mobile phones and, uhm, trousers.

 

[wtfftw]

Once we have shelves sorted in our front room, I'm thinking of instituting a 'Where the Fuck?' box... if I have to put something away from the sofa/floor etc, it goes into the 'Where the Fuck?' box. Problem solved!

Yeah, right.

We tried a pockets box. Basically a tupperware box for him to empty pockets into rather than everywhere else and losing everything. Now the box is just full of crap and the pocket contents are being 'lost' as I type. It was good while it lasted...

 

[Cloo]

We tried a pockets box. Basically a tupperware box for him to empty pockets into rather than everywhere else and losing everything. Now the box is just full of crap and the pocket contents are being 'lost' as I type. It was good while it lasted...

Why this strange inability to leave stuff in the same place with some people (largely men, IME)?

 

[panpete]

I'm a woman, I look in what seems to be the obvious place and find it

but what I thinks obvious isn't necessarily.

I'm forever losing stuff and searching and bitching (even if alone).
A few years ago, I made myself a rule, spend five minutes searching, then if no joy, stop the search.
This is because I have wasted a big chunk of my life, looking for mis-laid articles.
The new rule has saved me a suprisigly significant amount of time.

 

[maya]

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[maya]

(???) (double post)

 

[Cloo]

Someone told me today that it's because men can't 'scan' as well as women - if you say 'It's on the shelf', man looks at the shelf 'No, can't see it!' and woman scans the shelf and finds it.

Any evolutionary reason for that? I might have assumed men would better at scanning.