I’ve noticed that there are certain types of items that I never seem to have to purchase. They just appear. No matter how many of these objects I lose, discard, or give away, there will always be more lying around somewhere.
- Pens
- Mugs
- T-Shirts
- Mouse Pads
This has to do, I think, with the way in which organizations have a tendency to produce cheap paraphernalia in a vain attempt to render into things tangible, their intangible existence.
Comments
Neil T. - January 15, 2005 5:54 pm
Your house sounds like mine.
DarlingNiki - January 16, 2005 12:21 pm
How funny... and true! And now with restrictions on textile exports from the east, they'll be producing even more, cheaper merchandise! Gah!
DarlingNiki - January 16, 2005 12:23 pm
Correction: I meant to write
"... now with LIFTED restrictions on textile exports from the east ..."
Toby - January 17, 2005 12:42 am
Add one more to your list - the hangers that you get from the dry cleaners.
Willem - January 17, 2005 4:32 am
I always have to buy new mechanical pencils because they keep disappearing.
Things on the other side of the globe must be in reverse.
jankowski - January 17, 2005 10:56 am
Perhaps there is a bizzaro-world somewhere where the people are constantly in want of mugs, pens, t-shirts and mousepads -- but who have a never-ending supply of pants, good tv shows, toilet paper, etc.
Pete Prodoehl - January 17, 2005 12:50 pm
The first rule of the mugs is, you don't talk about the mugs...
And as for the pens, I'll have to assume the pens that used to be in my house are now in your house, because we can never find any!
ashley graham - January 19, 2005 7:36 pm
i've had a pretty good history of discovering (and subsequently loosing) lighters. just when i loose one, another appears.
Red Baron - January 20, 2005 1:22 am
Here's a list of items around my house, that mysteriously seem to just appear out of nowhere: 1) Snoopy Mousepads ; 2) Red Baron Mugs ; 3) Snoopy T-Shirts ; 4) Snoopy Pens
The only thing I'd really disagree with, is the idea that Snoopy leads an intangible existence! Not to me, he doesn't.