Cords and Gremlins

Last week Saturday morning I was looking for a charging cord for an item I occasionally use. I knew the cord was kept in a drawer of a China cabinet we have in the dining room, with several other cords. I think there are gremlins that take the cords when I am searching and put it back for the wife to find. A

A pesky gremlin is the only way for me to explain why I could not find the cord, even though I pulled out all of the cords in the black organizer box and sorted through them, and looked in nearby smaller boxes. It certainly could not be my eyesight.

Varied Charging Cords

This has happened regarding varied items over the years and I have come to realize that the gremlins are wife friendly, but seem to like to pick on me. I am not sure if they are the same as the "ghosts" that my wife claims to here in the walls and the chimney. One time, I heard the noises in the wall and chimney, and even went outside to see if I could see squirrels or other critter types on the roof, but to no avail. They could have jumped off and hid, which is not hard to do with all our plants around the base of the house. Or, they could be between the siding and the insulation, or they could be "ghosts". Who knows.

Of course, there are items I set aside for safe keeping, and cannot recall the safe place. One such item was a bag containing stuff for our rain barrel, in the warmer months it is the hookup for winter, and in the winter the hookup for warmer weather. Or, the time, my wife made some corn hole toss bags, and I stuck them in the basement up between the first floor joists. A nice out of the way spot, if only I could have remembered. I now know to look up when searching for an item. 

All I know when I was looking for that charging cord I looked and looked, and looked again, and to no avail. I then asked the wife if she knew what happened to it, and she said she did not move it. She knew what the cord looked like, grey with more of a cloth exterior than vinyl or rubber. She came over to the drawer, and looked inside and pulled it out. It was so quick, I figured she had brought it with her and I, jokingly, said as much, which really got her goat. She did not take it as jokingly.

This narrows to a few options of what happened First, I did not look sufficiently well; second, that the wife brought it over and placed it in the drawer to pull out; and third, there are gremlins that moved it when I look, but put it back when she looks. I am going with the cords and gremlin theory.