one sheet to the wind
kelly | 24 September 2008 - 8:40pm
UPDATE:
RzDrms found the fitted sheet! I am not even kidding. Read the comments. She is a GENIUS! Or she's got cameras set up in our house....which, whatever, I don't even care. She found the fitted sheet! BEHOLD THE POWER OF THE INTERNET, people.
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We have lost a fitted sheet. I know. That seems impossible. I mean, it's not like it ever leaves the house, not like we take our own sheets to hotels or something. And yet, this household is less one fitted sheet.
It's a little embarrassing, really. A bit like losing...I don't know, a boat sail? A parachute? Rob has looked everywhere, and I have looked everywhere. Yes, even behind the dryer. Even behind and under the drawer where we store the sheets. Even under the bed. Even in the shower, although really why the hell would it be there?
Usually when something is lost we blame the cats. Because what else are they good for? In this case, they would each have had to grab a corner of the sheet in their teeth and scooted, together, to a secret hiding place.
So far this is our best theory. Because how else does a person lose a fitted fucking sheet?
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Wow...that's really really really weird. Man, just...yeah, weird. I definitely wouldn't blame the last people to stay overnight in your house. I'm just saying...
did you use it while painting something, like the kitchen, as a dropcloth, and forget that you threw it away/accidentally threw it away? did the floor installation guys steal it? did you take it to use on a picnic, like as a tablecloth? did it disappear near where you actually fold the clothes? did someone who maybe watched your house (your brother?) while you were out of town (on one of the many, fabulous times that you've travelled recently) take it as a practical joke to mess with your mind (maybe s/he soiled it whilst watching your house and is embarrassed)?
this is intriguing. how in the world does someone loose a fitting sheet?! ;)
bam!!!
i bet five dollars i know where it is...it just occurred to me. i bet you put it over a previous fitted sheet on a bed (yours, the guestbed, etc.) and forgot to take the unwashed/old one off.
Dave Barry used to say that the washer ate his socks. Could it be that these new, larger washers eat sheets???
RZ!! Holy shit! I just went upstairs to the guest bedroom and looked under the current set of sheets, and guess what I found?! THE FITTED SHEET!!!
So here's what happened... Doreen and Apollo came to stay a few weeks ago. It had been quite awhile since we'd had overnight guests, and I couldn't remember if our guest bed was a double or a queen. So I put one of our queen fitted sheets on it to determine the size. Days later when I went to actually make the bed, I must not have noticed the fitted sheet (obviously) and just put the mattress cover and the sheets on overtop. So the missing fitted sheet was under the mattress cover, which explains why I didn't find my fitted sheet when I stripped their bed after they left.
You are BRILLIANT. Brilliant! And your $5 is totally in the mail.
i rock the friggin' cashbah!!! booyaaah!
seriously, it completely and totally hit me like a ton of bricks at my desk! really! i mean, how do two (totally cute!) smart young folks like kelly and rob lose a fitted sheet (i can actually spell in this comment versus one of my previous comments)?! how?!
so i said, self, how can a person, two persons, LOSE A FITTED SHEET?! the only way to do that is to leave the old one on the bed. there's no other explanation. have you MET those two? they are organized (see: kelly's fridge magnets, kelly's itineraries when she goes on trips, kelly's and rob's cute wardrobes, the organized bathroom cabinets AND closets...etc.).
PLUS! doreen hinted she'd slept over. either she and apollo were VERY EMBARRASSED about their stay over...or you double-sheeted your guestbed.
i rock. booyaaah, wills. shove it. ;)
(p.s. plus, it's totally something i would do. but whatev.)
[p.p.s. i am CRACKING UP at the thought of you discovering the missing fitted sheet. please do not look for hidden cameras. i am just a freak of nature (others will agree).]
That is hilarious! I never would have thought of that. EVER! Hey, Rz! My mom washed her curtains once and never did find one of the valances. Any thoughts?
Isn't the internet awesome. You can find all kinds of things on the internet including fitted sheets in your own house.
Shove it Raz. :)
Well now I know who to ask for help next time I lose something! :)
kranki: ::channelling into my obviously non-humble brain looking for your mom's valance::
methinks the missing valance became static-clung to either the back of one of the curtains (same pattern/color, hence, virtually undetectable) and is hanging there to this day OR it's static-clung to something else (a regular top bedsheet that's now folded away in the linen closet). or it fell behind/underneath the couch/chair near where the curtains hang and is collecting dust as i type.
or kelly's cats went over and stole it. but i'm stickin' with the static cling theory.