The Hunt

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Yesterday I embarked on a hunting expedition. I hunted here and I hunted there. I hunted everywhere. Well, not really, but you have to admit that sounds good. Yesterday I decided to get my outdoor electrical cord out and plug my car in since the forecast called for temperatures dropping down into the teens (-7º to -12º C). I went out to my storage shed and unlocked it. I looked where I usually hang the cord and it wasn’t there. So I moved things around and still could not find my cord. I stood there wondering how someone broke in and stoled the cord. There was no signs of a break-in. And equally as important, why did they only take the cord and nothing else? Then I thought maybe I had left it on the porch where the outside electrical outlet was. I knew if I left it there it was most definitely stolen because I had seen it on the porch all summer. But I looked for it there anyway. No cord. I stood there cussing myself out for being so stupid to leave the cord where someone could steal it. I had never had anything stolen off my porch before but there was always a first time. Now I had to go buy a new cord. Slightly irritating since the cord I had was only about two years old. But then that’s the way things go. As I was walking down the stairs off the porch, a thought occurred to me. I vaguely remembered putting the cord in the trunk of my car. I went to my car and popped the trunk. Sure enough there it was. Then it all came back to me. In early spring when I no longer needed to plug my car in I decided I had better get the cord off the porch before it got stolen. I was rushing out the door going somewhere and decided to throw the cord in the trunk and put it up when I got home. By the time I had gotten home I had forgotten all about it. I had been in and out of the trunk, putting groceries in and taking them out and whatnot, all summer but I never paid any attention to the cord. So the hunt was over and the item found. There is no since in asking if you have ever misplaced something because I know we all do at one time or another (unless you’re one of those people who remembers every thing that has happened on each and every day of your life).