Things your spouse needed help finding

OK, looking at the Knock Knock site and finding the find-it board made me wonder.

What is the most obvious, most obnoxious and weirdest thing your med-spouse has lost and needed your help to find? I can't even begin to describe what living with my DH is like, he being the champion of
"I can't find it, it's lost forever, we have to buy a new one etc."

That being said, the strangest thing he ever lost was his head. Really. Not his own head, technically, but a real skeleton head from his Gross Anatomy class. He was bringing it home in a box to study for an exam and lost it on the way. He gets home and doesn't say anything. Then, we are leaving the house to go somewhere and he hands me his cell phone and a phone book and says,
"Can you look up the bus company number and Starbucks in the U district?" So I say,
"what? Have you lost your (fill in the blank of whatever.....) again?"
"Well, I've lost a head."
So I figure Starbucks first 'cause it's just easier.
"Hi, my husband lost a skeleton head in a box, has anyone turned one in?"
Employee, "What!? a real Skeleton Head?!"
Me, "Um yeah."
Another Employee in background,
"A skeleton head? yeah it's under the counter, someone turned it in...."

So, I challenge you...

[Vishenka69]

DH looses something every single day. The funniest thing he ever lost was his dirty underwear. Back in college we rented a house on lake George with some friends. About a week after we got back to the city, the owner emailed me to ask if we left anything behind. I told her that I'll check with everyone. Turned out that DH didn't even realize that he was missing a whole bag of underwear until I asked. The woman was nice enough to mail them to us.

we have a weird balance where the finding thing is concerned. if it is in plain sight (or would be obvious to the normal human), like "where is the swiss cheese" in the fridge - he's useless and cannot find things. He's one of those people who will stand in front of a milk carton and ask where the milk is. He once came home from the grocery and told me they were out of bacon.

but - if it's REALLY lost (a key, a piece of jewelry, a remote control) - he will not stop looking until he finds it -- and does find it.

[rainbabies]

Lost!

the owner emailed me to ask if we left anything behind. I told her that I'll check with everyone. Turned out that DH didn't even realize that he was missing a whole bag of underwear until I asked. The woman was nice enough to mail them to us.

Ewwww! Wow, nice woman. I'm not sure I could have done that! My DH has gotten so bad that I now ask if he actually wants me to help him or does he want to look for it himself to save the embarrassment.

[Gwendolyn]

Although I am sorry to hear you all have the same frustrating spouses, but I can't tell you how delighted I am to know that mine is not completely broken when it comes to this!!

Although I don't think there could possibly be a story to top the lost head, DH would lose it if he could.

The worst is when he loses something that I have never seen in my life and then sends me on a chase to figure out where he might have left it last month because he needs it for conference in an hour!!

Luckily I have gotten pretty good at it, but wow it can be frustrating. That being said I have to admit to a sick sense of satisfaction when I find it and get to do a little gloating victory dance

[planet]

Is this some unspoken prereq to being a doc?? You are talking about my dh too.

[alison]

I'm the messy, scattered, forgetful one. I always misplace things--keys, umbrella, phone (I call it and try to follow the ringing noise). My husband is the one who always tells me "if you put it where it belongs, you won't ever lose it." If it were only that easy... This is coming from a guy who arranges his part of the medicine cabinet with the labels facing him, puts his coat on the same hook on the door, and puts my spices in alphabetical order. I tease him and tell him his need for order is so German! And you know what...? He agrees!
Alison

[SueC]

I can't top your skeleton story, that is pretty darn funny.
My dh loses his wallet frequently (twice in one day, though I've said that on here before, I like to bring it up now and then to razz him). He's lost his driver's license more times than I can count.
The funniest thing he did once was 3 or 4 days in a he kept misplacing different pairs of shoes. He was pretty sure he was taking them off and leaving them on the porch (I don't know why), and had deduced that a homeless man was coming by each night and stealing his shoes. (Not totally inconceivable if you're familiar with the part of town we live in). About a week or so later I was cleaning the house and found each and every pair of shoes that he was missing. Now we often joke about the darn homeless guy that keeps stealing our stuff.

[Vishenka69]

About a week or so later I was cleaning the house and found each and every pair of shoes that he was missing.

Along similar lines, it's a good thing we move every few years, as that's when we find all DH's stuff that's been missing for a while. Regular or even spring cleaning doesn't uncover as much as an actual move.

[DCJenn]

His combat boots.

Yup, the same ones he wears every day...

It's sad really. Because I put them away and he therefore was unable to locate them.

Jenn

[Sheherezade]

Because I put them away and he therefore was unable to locate them.

You put them*away*??! That would never work around here. When ever I put something of his away it is gone forever as far as he's concerned!

My DH doesn't lose things, but he can't find things to save his life. The kids are always asking him to locate something. I'll tell him where to find it. Nada. He simply can't see the item. It's unreal. Somehow, he thinks this makes me the bad guy -- because I can find it. Does that make any sense? Needless to say, the kids come to me directly now.