Ballade of Lost Objects

[flemmings]

I would like my cell phone case back, but that's been gone for over a year. I would like my velcro leg bandage back because I had it last week. I think it's in the blue shopping bag but I can't find that either. I would like my hedge clippers back; possibly the s-i-l has them, but I think I guarded them more carefully last year.

I do not want the skunks back but there they were- or it was- permeating last night's clammy muggy night air. Skunk smells very much like marijuana, did you know? It's also possible that skunk will deter raccoons: a high price to pay, but I'll take skunk over raccoon any day of the week.

Comments

[incandescens]

Things. Things wander. Things get themselves lost. Blasted things.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

The malice of inanimate objects is only too much attested.

[incandescens]

Including by MR James...

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

(shudders)

[incandescens]

Sorry, couldn't get that one out of my head. Apologies.

[heliopausa.livejournal.com]

I didn't know about skunks and marijuana, but have filed the knowledge in case it comes in handy. Like Sherlock Holmes.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

It has to be after the skunk smell has faded a bit because there's no mistaking it in the first fine careless spray.