July 5, 2014 · 9:30 pm
- See unidentified thing on floor.
- Look at it.
- Look at it.
- What IS it? Look harder at it.
- Look at it while tilting head.
- WHAT IS IT?
- Bend over to look at it.
- Look at it lookatitLOOKATIT
- Poke it.
- Poke it again.
- WHATISITWHATISITWHATISIT?
- Pick it up.
- Drop it.
- Look for it.
- Look for it lookforitLOOKFORIT
- WHERE IS IT???
- IS IT ON ME???
- Flail uncontrollably.
- See second unidentifiable thing on floor.
- Repeat from Step 2.
Filed under Getchore LEARN on!, La Vida Loca, My Secret Shame(s), Random Thoughts, Reality Bites, SCIENCE!, WTF???, Ye Olde Apartment Complex
Tagged as Canna getta WITNESS?, DON'T JUDGE ME!, OCD for You and Me, Reality Theatre, SCIENCE!, WTF?
hoodyhoo 
I dunno what’s on your floor, or what meds you’re on, so Imma wish you well 🙂
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I still don’t know what it was, but it may be on me. Showers notwithstanding. WHERE DID IT GO???
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I dunno, Hoody! I’m gettin scared now! What if it flies and it’s comin here?!?
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I think it may have opened a portal in the space-time continuum… it WAS here, and now is manifestly NOT here, so… watch your floor, is what I’m saying!
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Imma vacuum quick. Thanks for the heads up!
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And this is exactly why we invented Stick Science.
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I had no readily-available stick, and the object did not appear to be wet and/or alive, so I poked it with my finger. FOR SCIENCE.
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When in doubt, whack it with a magazine first.
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I had observed it for long enough to be mostly sure it wasn’t alive… Of course, now it’s escaped, so I may have been wrong!
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Sounds vaguely like vacuum science – run the vacuum over it – won’t pick up. Do it again – won’t pick up. Pick it up and look at it. Throw it back down in floor, run vacuum over it – won’t pick up. Sigh. Rinse, repeat.
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Again, you see? This is why I’m like this!
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Lint, it was lint.
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I hope it was lint!
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Dear Sweet Mama has it exactly right – it’s just an offshoot of the vacuum thing! However, if I can’t identify something on the floor, I never get to step 12 – that is when I break out the vacuum cleaner to do the job – because if that sucker is alive, I don’t want to find out when it runs up my arm and into my hair!
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But what if it disappears while you’re getting the vacuum? THEN YOU’LL NEVER KNOW!
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Sometimes you just gotta live with the mystery (and hope it can’t crawl back out of the vacuum)!
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And if it DOES crawl back out, hope it’s not too pissed!
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