I must have loved playing hide & seek as a child, so much so that as an adult I have my own version, but it’s not hide and seek it is more like, try to find things that I put somewhere a few days ago or a few weeks ago or even last year and now I can’t remember where I put them. I don’t know if it is unconscious or what but I notice that there are many jobs around the house that are 95% finished, just finished well enough to live with but not complete. When I today decided to complete the kitchen project started over a year ago, I couldn’t find the packets of clips that are needed to put the final panel on the cupboards, I found the box that everything else was in, I found money, I found a packet of batteries that was missing, but no clips. It must be some kind of perverse subconscious pleasure that has me hunting around the garage and the cellar and the attic like a complete raving lunatic getting dusty and sweaty saying “where in the name of Jaysus” and ” For fuck sake” and ” I could have sworn I put that there” . I must like doing this, otherwise I would have found a way to stop it. Or maybe the synapses have become so well worn in this pattern that it happens automatically. It could be genetic……
It’s like the time I overheard two guys in a Cork antique shop on Winthrop Street opposite the Long Valley, (that is the shop was in Cork city not made of cork or selling antique cork) talking about gambling and one auld fella said to the other ” it’s not the winning that drives the gambler, oh no, tis the losing of the money that they like” the other auld fella nodded and repeated back ” tis the losing of the money that they like”
I must love losing stuff and then try to find it a year later, that is why the jobs only get 95% finished so I can put all the tools away and then try to put the pieces back together later. The thing is that I am not so good at finding stuff, so I end up buying new stuff to replace the things I can’t find, then I find them when I’m looking for something else. So the trick must be not to be looking for one thing, then you won’t find it, you must look for everything then surely you will be sucessful. Or else I’ll just have to get more organized.
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