As a family with 6 boys in rural Ohio we had so many amusing things happen I had to record them. This is the 11th in the series.
Disappearing Things …………
In our house things had a way of disappearing; dish towels were secretly used to clean auto parts, dogs, muddy tennis shoes and some things I don’t want to know about …… then they vanished from the earth. Some of the boys were always building models and when they ran out of glue (every week) they would heat a steak knife and melt plastic parts together, so steak knives were very scarce. When I finally found all those blackened knives stashed under beds or stuffed inside bio-hazard dirty socks they were beyond salvaging.
Screwdrivers disappeared like ice in July and scissors were used instead. I never had scissors with points until all six left home. Out in the “wilderness” of Ohio they built a Fort. They dragged out a lamp (why did they need a lamp with no electricity?) a LazyBoy and various kitchen items. At that time I had to resort to flipping hamburgers with an ice scraper and draining macaroni with a pool skimmer. I’m sure the Fort held all those shirts they didnt like, the heirloom cup I never found, all 2200 dish towels and maybe Scotts gas powered helicopter. One day when he wasn’t home it went up, up and away ……. never to return.