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Title: Weekend compeition
Post by: Andy M on March 30, 2007, 03:30:44 PM
Last Sunday I lost one of the Bonneville's keys. This morning Karen found it.

I'll buy a large Whiskey (or whatever your poison) for anyone who successfully guesses where it was.

No clues except to say the key still works.

Andy
Title: Re: Weekend compeition
Post by: squirrelciv on March 30, 2007, 03:33:43 PM
Washing machine/tumble drier
Title: Re: Weekend compeition
Post by: steveD on March 30, 2007, 03:43:43 PM
In the filter in the washing machine?



Still in the bike?



Inside the lining of your helmet?



Inside one of your gloves?



Stuck to the magnet of a magnetic tank bag?



I Give in!


SteveD
Title: Re: Weekend compeition
Post by: MrFluffy on March 30, 2007, 06:06:57 PM
If your anything like me, I always find keys to vehicles that I have lost a day or two later in the ignition still.
Or if its me van, I find them hanging from the padlock on the rear door hasp :)
Title: Re: Weekend compeition
Post by: Alan Hughes on March 30, 2007, 08:29:51 PM
In your pocket?
Title: Re: Weekend compeition
Post by: pigafetta on March 30, 2007, 08:44:07 PM
In the hoover bag?

In a crock of dog poo?

Trouser turn-up?

Jackdaws nest?

Stuck in your beard?



Dave b
Title: Re: Weekend compeition
Post by: guest27 on March 30, 2007, 11:53:53 PM

In the CAR ignition

In the compost heap

R
Title: Re: Weekend compeition
Post by: squirrelciv on March 31, 2007, 08:14:56 AM
Can I have another go??

In the fire ashes :-) (could be bonfire or rayburn or hearth fire or coal fired boiler, that sort of thing)
Title: Re: Weekend compeition
Post by: steveLL on March 31, 2007, 08:46:52 AM
in the hoover bag?
Title: Re: Weekend compeition
Post by: Andy M on March 31, 2007, 09:18:28 AM
All good guesses so far, but the Whiskey is safe.

The ignition was the second place I looked. Having spent £150 and half a day installing a ground anchor and BFO chain, I now actually prefer the chain lock to the ignition when at home, but it wasn't there either.

The dog poo was also a possibility, but experience tells me the gestation period of a Collie-Alsation cross pupy is more like 24-48 hours, so that idea was out by Wednesday (although we did find the dish cloth- yuck).

I don't have trouser turn up's or a beard, but there is time if they'll trap anything useful.

Pockets are the one thing I'm good at. Years of travelling to dodgy places means I do keep the same thing in the right pocket when I actually use them. In this case failing to use them lost the key.

The washing machine/hoover ideas are closest but no cigar.

Answer tomorrow.

Andy
Title: Re: Weekend compeition
Post by: guest27 on March 31, 2007, 11:10:37 AM
Dishwasher

Coffee perk / filter machine

Fridge

Freezer

R
Title: Re: Weekend compeition
Post by: guest40 on March 31, 2007, 12:00:20 PM
Geeeze the lengths some people will go to to get a free whiskey, hey Rog???

My money is on the clothes dryer

Vacuum Pack the whisky before you send it so it dont leak in the mail
Title: Re: Weekend compeition
Post by: Bill Rutter on March 31, 2007, 12:35:12 PM
In the dog (well my inner usually is!)
Title: Re: Weekend compeition
Post by: pigafetta on March 31, 2007, 10:03:15 PM
In your pipe?

Stuck to the heel of your boot with old chewing gum?

Stuck in the tyre tread of your van?

Dirty clothes basket?

Clean clothes basket?

Down the back of the sofa?

Down behind the radiator?

In the bin?

I give up, I'm getting silly now.


Dave B
Title: Re: Weekend compeition
Post by: guest27 on March 31, 2007, 11:12:49 PM
Things we will do for a whisky / whiskey - depending on it being Scotch or Irish I think.  Mmm well I was looking to trade the whisky for a bike part and so on until I have swapped it out for a working bike.  But then I will just take it apart.

Ohhh nooooooo Its Captain Entropy

R
Title: Re: Weekend compeition
Post by: Steve Lake on April 01, 2007, 07:09:29 AM
well, when i lost my mobile phone last year......i found it in the egg box in the fridge (grandaughter was going through a tidy phase) so thats my second guess
Title: Re: Weekend compeition
Post by: Andy M on April 01, 2007, 09:15:27 AM
The Answer: In the toaster!

How it migrated there is a matter of conjecture, probably involving the effects of gravity from the top of the coffee maker and relatively between objects (ie it has to fall at 45 degrees), but Friday morning my other half decided to have toast. Now the toaster is a novelty job that puts a smiley on the bread. Nothing odd was noticed except for a key shaped mark at one corner and general lack of cooking on one slice. I therefore come home to "the toaster needs fixing". There, in one slot was the Triumph key with nothing worse than a wire mark either side of the plastic part and a charity key fob that's now just a green blob! For a woman who can smell oil on my boots as I come into cloth throwing range you'd have thought burning key fob might have given the game away, but it seems the stuff is odourless and doesn't even alter the taste of toast made with week old supermarket bread.

Andy