The Absent Minded Depressor.

Now I know everybody has a little giggle about the odd senior moment, but I have to say my friend Al does seem to be visiting me rather a lot lately! Mr Zymer called around again this morning when I was searching for a particular flannel in the airing cupboard. So let me tell you what happened.

I had dried a pile of washing in the tumbler yesterday, did you read about my new tumbler? I’m very pleased with it, OK yes, I know I’m a bit sad, but wait ‘til you hear the rest of this story!

Anyway back to the plot, the washing just needed a little more airing so a few bits I hung on the airer, and some other bits including the towel and flannel I put in the airing cupboard to finish off.

Fast forward to this morning, when I went to take the stuff from the airing cupboard, I folded the towel up but could not find the flannel and, as the airing cupboard was not its usual tidy self, I became convinced the flannel had got hidden in there, well it is a bit Narnia.

So, out the entire contents of the airing cupboard came, a quick clean, well might as well as it was empty, and after checking and refolding every towel in there and yes, I did know that some people think it is a problem that every towel has to be folded in the same way and stacked roll side outwards, for me however it has order and symmetry. Anyway I realised by this time that the said flannel was not to be found, mystery!

Still the cupboard looks great now, top shelf some airing space, hand towels and flannels, but not the missing one, middle shelf bath sheets, bottom shelf bath and pedestal mats, lovely.

So by this time I was fully convinced that the flannel had been abducted by aliens in the night, that being a better answer than that I was really losing the plot (well more than usual) and that Al Zymer was actually moving in with me.

Trying to be grown up, I resigned myself to the fact that the flannel would eventually turn up and moved on, well I may have gone back and stared blankly and appealingly at the airing cupboard a couple more times first.

Later as I was folding up the washing on the airer guess what I found?

Yep, the flannel was never in the airing cupboard, I had put it on the airer!

Still, I have the added benefit of a clean and tidy airing cupboard and my other friend O’Seedy is very pleased.