Another first-world tragedy for The Horse. Please send words of sympathy.

@TheHorse (238317)
Walnut Creek, California
December 18, 2020 2:00pm CST
The other day, I scored a carne asada burrito from my favorite local Mexican food place. I asked for two grilled peppers on the side. I ate half of the burrito, and had one of the two peppers with it. It was delicious. As planned, I saved the other hot pepper for my use of the burrito remnants as "leftovers." The other hot pepper disappeared. So both yesterday and today, I had to eat a quarter of a delicious authentic Mexican burrito for lunch WITHOUT the the hot pepper I saved. The gremlins at my house steal my scissors, my guitar picks, my sanding blocks, and even my miniature statue of St. Francis of Assisi (my favorite Saint--and I actually bought it IN Assisi!). But they have never gone after my peppers before. What do your gremlins like to steal? I am so sad, I'm going to provide a link to one of my favorite blues songs, "Every Other Day I Have the Blues." Will you cry along with me?
A real funny parody of the song "Everyday I have the blues. I do not own the music or the photos used in this video. No copyright infringement intended. I do...
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DianneN
@DianneN (254926)
• United States
18 Dec 20
I'm my worst gremlin. Very sad when things disappear.
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The Horse
@TheHorse (238317)
• Walnut Creek, California
18 Dec 20
Do you have my hot pepper? It was grilled!
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The Horse
@TheHorse (238317)
• Walnut Creek, California
19 Dec 20
@DianneN You didn't bribe Kitty, did you? You know she goes crazy for wet foo...(um, never mind). I didn't tell you that.
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DianneN
@DianneN (254926)
• United States
18 Dec 20
@TheHorse Is the Pope Catholic?
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Namelesss
@Namelesss (3364)
• United States
19 Dec 20
Better not steal my peppers. If they do I'm shipping those little criminals to you. LOL Here they steal my scissors. I think I may have scared the little buggers with a pair.
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vanny
@vandana7 (102698)
• India
19 Dec 20
I just thanked god he eats some peppers. Kinda..I thought it was all bland food that he would order if I ever traveled to the US to collect my payment for the songs we upload.
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The Horse
@TheHorse (238317)
• Walnut Creek, California
19 Dec 20
I have something like six pairs of scissors here. And three flashlights. The all laugh and hide when I need them. I can hear them! It's like an evil "cackle."
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Namelesss
@Namelesss (3364)
• United States
19 Dec 20
@vandana7 Well if he don't eat peppers I do, haha.
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Four Walls
@FourWalls (86713)
• United States
19 Dec 20
Did you check the cat’s breath for traces of pepper smell?? My gremlins steal my Hoyt Axton albums. (A joke there, hoping someone gets it.....)
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Four Walls
@FourWalls (86713)
• United States
19 Dec 20
@TheHorse — yep. Jeremiah was a gremlin.....
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The Horse
@TheHorse (238317)
• Walnut Creek, California
19 Dec 20
@FourWalls I'll have to check that out. I just dropped down onto the floor and played Sweet Angelina with the help of my Martin D-18. Hoyt Axton wrote that, didn't he?
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The Horse
@TheHorse (238317)
• Walnut Creek, California
19 Dec 20
And I dream in the morning...wait...a joke?
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (382104)
• Rockingham, Australia
19 Dec 20
Do you suspect Kitty?
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vanny
@vandana7 (102698)
• India
19 Dec 20
Anybody but him..
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The Horse
@TheHorse (238317)
• Walnut Creek, California
19 Dec 20
Her face is too innocent. Never mind that half-a-mouse she left...hmm...
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Kharla Jolly
@kobesbuddy (78833)
• East Tawas, Michigan
18 Dec 20
Last week, the top 1/2 of a mouse was missing! Now, a hot pepper vanished, without a clue, just gone,(bingo) into the wild blue yonder May I please ask, do you have a couple rolaids to spare?
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The Horse
@TheHorse (238317)
• Walnut Creek, California
18 Dec 20
I wonder what will happen next.
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Kharla Jolly
@kobesbuddy (78833)
• East Tawas, Michigan
18 Dec 20
@TheHorse Check your waist-line for any 1/2way marks, make sure there are no deceitful plots being made 1/2 a horse? OH, God forbid!
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The Horse
@TheHorse (238317)
• Walnut Creek, California
18 Dec 20
@kobesbuddy No! I am checking now.
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CarolDM
@CarolDM (203396)
• Nashville, Tennessee
18 Dec 20
I think we all have gremlins from time to time.
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The Horse
@TheHorse (238317)
• Walnut Creek, California
18 Dec 20
I hear mine cackling as I fall asleep. I hope Kitty is not in cahoots with them.
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Kharla Jolly
@kobesbuddy (78833)
• East Tawas, Michigan
18 Dec 20
You are right Carol, they are real:(
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CarolDM
@CarolDM (203396)
• Nashville, Tennessee
18 Dec 20
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Heather Echola
@GardenGerty (169479)
• United States
19 Dec 20
Is it possible you did some "sleep eating"? Everything disappears here, then sometimes reappears. It is as if I have some mystical portal between two worlds.
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The Horse
@TheHorse (238317)
• Walnut Creek, California
19 Dec 20
That's the way I feel sometimes.
BarBaraPrz
@BarBaraPrz (51823)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
18 Dec 20
Gremlins take whatever they feel like taking, whenever they feel like taking stuff, but usually when you're looking for said stuff.
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The Horse
@TheHorse (238317)
• Walnut Creek, California
18 Dec 20
Yes, they know when you're about t look for something.
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marguicha
@marguicha (230350)
• Chile
18 Dec 20
I just lost my favorite pair of earrings. Gremlins?
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marguicha
@marguicha (230350)
• Chile
19 Dec 20
@TheHorse There´s always books online
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The Horse
@TheHorse (238317)
• Walnut Creek, California
19 Dec 20
@marguicha How do you get those into bed with you when you only have a desktop?
The Horse
@TheHorse (238317)
• Walnut Creek, California
18 Dec 20
I think so. I'd help you but Horse Jr. left my Sherlock Holmes book in Germany.
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much2say
@much2say (57760)
• Los Angeles, California
18 Dec 20
Where'd the heck did that last pepper go ? Our gremlins must only have one foot . . . it takes 1/2 a pair of socks - and a lot of 'em!
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DE
@DaddyEvil (174495)
• United States
22 Dec 20
I bought a twelve-pack of new socks a week ago and ran them through the laundry before I folded them and put them into my dresser drawer. One was missing. We still haven't found it. (I put the 'spare' in my bottom dresser drawer for when I wear a hole in one of it's mates. SMH!)
The Horse
@TheHorse (238317)
• Walnut Creek, California
18 Dec 20
That's why I buy only white socks that basically all look the same. The sock gremlins know better than to come here!
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Kayla Tsukino
@kaylachan (84810)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
18 Dec 20
I've had things magically disappear when I need them, then magically reappear when I don't. Never happened with food, though.
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Kayla Tsukino
@kaylachan (84810)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
18 Dec 20
Then I must have had a lot of them growing up. Though I think I can blame the cats and dogs for food disappeearing.@TheHorse
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The Horse
@TheHorse (238317)
• Walnut Creek, California
19 Dec 20
@kaylachan If Kitty ate my hot pepper, I bet she paid the price!
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The Horse
@TheHorse (238317)
• Walnut Creek, California
18 Dec 20
That's how gremlins work.
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Fiacre Banks
@xFiacre (14789)
• Ireland
18 Dec 20
@thehorse Well the best you can hope for is that the culprit discovers that he has a violent allergic reaction to peppers.
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The Horse
@TheHorse (238317)
• Walnut Creek, California
18 Dec 20
Buwaahaahaa! Maybe my gremlin mistook it for a small pickle.
Thelma
@thelme55 (79324)
• Germany
18 Dec 20
It sounds you have a ghost in the house. Sometimes, I am missing some things, too. They appear when I am no longer looking for them.
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The Horse
@TheHorse (238317)
• Walnut Creek, California
18 Dec 20
Exactly. When you need a q-tip, you find your scissors.
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Thelma
@thelme55 (79324)
• Germany
19 Dec 20
@TheHorse That´s right.
Clint Perry
@cperry2 (5608)
• Newport, Oregon
19 Dec 20
For the most part, they don't steal my stuff, they hide it from me. Although I had a stapler on my desk that I had purchased in the 1970s, it disappeared sometime last year. The only gremlin that takes food I think, is my wife.
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DE
@DaddyEvil (174495)
• United States
22 Dec 20
How would your wife feel if I told her you said that, Clint? (You can contribute to my "me" fund to keep me from telling her! )
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DE
@DaddyEvil (174495)
• United States
22 Dec 20
@cperry2 I think I love your wife, sir. *really grinning at you*
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Clint Perry
@cperry2 (5608)
• Newport, Oregon
22 Dec 20
@DaddyEvil If she does her usual, she would roll her eyes and make a coment like "Oh God." Besides, I've told her that before.
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vanny
@vandana7 (102698)
• India
19 Dec 20
One of your Xs did that. I am a detective. I know. She is really mad at ya.
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Shavkat
@Shavkat (141905)
• Philippines
19 Dec 20
It seems my gremlins are so disciplined lately. No stealing from them.
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Anne Marie Guyer
@LeaPea2417 (40032)
• Toccoa, Georgia
19 Dec 20
It may have fallen out of the package it was in and ended up in the back of the fridge.
DE
@DaddyEvil (174495)
• United States
22 Dec 20
Uhm... I mentioned to someone on myLot that things don't usually 'disappear' without some kind of help... or a bit of faulty memory. Here, food 'disappears' when I'm reading a very interesting book. I don't notice I've been eating until the plate is clean and I reach for more of whatever was on the plate. *I always hope I enjoyed whatever it was and there was no possibility of a bug landing on/in my food while I was eating it.*
LindaOH
@LindaOHio (222417)
• United States
19 Dec 20
Shedding tears as I type this. Did you every find your pepper? You just can't get a break. :-)
Arunima Singh
@arunima25 (93194)
• Bangalore, India
19 Dec 20
Nothing delicious stays in my fridge for couple of days. My two daughters are the gremlins here in my house. I am sorry that you had to enjoy it without the pepper.