Where,s my seatpin?

[cyclop]

Ok,who,s been in my garage and hidden the seatpin from my 60yr old frame I,m building up ? Reward offered ....help yourself to any spare part for long dead bikes from my spares stash.

[PT1029]

Shouldn't this be in Heath and Fitness, thread title "Where's my memory"?!

[Audax67]

Have you looked under your apostrophe?

[ncutler]

Have you looked under your apostrophe?

It's not an apostrophe, it's a comma. If you held it upside down it might look like an apostrophe.

[cycle tramp]

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[Nicholas]

Have you looked under your apostrophe?

Classic!

[AndyK]

It's where you left it. Third shelf down, on the left, in that cardboard box with the oily fingerprints all over it, underneath the thing and the other thing.

You're welcome.

[rjb]

Peer down the seat tube.

[cycleruk]

Check the fridge. That's where things have been found recently.

[Brik]

It's not an apostrophe, it's a comma.

I think it was an apostrophe but it's drooped a little, something that can happen with age, so I'm told.

[Jdsk]

I remember hearing this once in an Emergency Department.

Jonathan

[rjb]

I remember hearing this once in an Emergency Department.

Jonathan

No that was the phone.

[peetee]

It’s where you looked the first time. You just didn’t look hard enough.

[cyclop]

I give up ! Transferred everything back onto my old Mercian....only took 30mins(I,d left the front/rear mechs on)The joys of simplicity.

[531colin]

This may not help you, although I found it vaguely comforting;
My P clips turned up just now, they were in exactly the box I remembered, its just that I couldn't see the box because it was behind another box on a low shelf.

The natural history of this (at least in my case) is that the first thing I do is to look in all the obvious places, and when I can't find it I go round looking again and again in all the obvious places, getting crosses and crosser because I still can't find it.
I normally "lose" something which I had in my hand recently, anything from a few minutes to a few days, and the answer is always that I have just laid it down somewhere random, instead of putting it away, or at least putting it somewhere obvious.....in this case values for "obvious" include in with other similar things, in with other parts from the same job, or just on the bench.

I now have to accept that in some cases I can't find it because i have used it for another purpose, but I have forgotten what I used it for.

I try to be systematic, for example all my odd stems, seatposts and associated shims are in the same box, even the spare seatpost and stem for the bike which has been passed from one grandchild to another, the spare parts needed to "grow" it a bit.