When Things Just Disappear

Have you ever had an item to just disappear? A great example is socks, you know you wash pairs of socks, but somehow, some way, there will always be a sock missing when the load is done. What happens to that one stray sock? I have wondered about that for years, and till this day I still do not have an answer.

Well the other night as I was going through my nightly routine of getting the kids ready for bed, getting things ready for the next work day, starting my bath and taking a minute to breathe, I went to look for my satin bonnet to put on my hair. I checked where it should be; with my other hair care products, but the bonnet wasn’t there. So I stopped a minute to think and realized that I may have left it in my bedroom that morning when I got up, so I went there to look and it wasn’t on my dresser, or the nightstand or any other obvious place.

So I walked around the house thinking about where I may have placed it while I was getting ready for work, but the satin bonnet was nowhere to be found. So then I began aimlessly walking around and looking in the same places I had already checked, just because I knew I must have overlooked it the first time. Second time around..still no bonnet. By this time I am quite frustrated because I know that I had the bonnet on last night and had to have taken it off this morning being that I didn’t wear it to work. I may be a little blitzed in the morning before my coffee, but not that blitzed to not know that I am walking around with a bonnet on my head.

So I stood there for a moment and decided that maybe if I went on with the other things I had to do before bedtime it would come to me where I put the bonnet.

An hour later after I had finished my nightly routine, I still had no clue as to where the bonnet could be. By this time I was seriously beginning to wonder if someone stole it. I know that sounds ridiculous, but what other explanation could there be for a satin bonnet going missing. And yes, as I contemplated that notion it did seem pretty unrealistic and ridiculous, but it must have gone somewhere and I definitely hadn’t misplaced it.

That night I roamed around the house, turning back covers, pulling back chairs, looking behind doors and in closets, hoping that the satin bonnet would turn up, but it didn’t. I was utterly bamboozled. How in the heck did a perfectly good, hardly used satin bonnet just disappear without a trace? The only other two people in my home are my two sons ages 8 years old and 10 months old and I knew neither of them would have taken it.

I went to bed, head bare and wondering how on God’s green earth did that bonnet just walk away like that.

The next day, I come home from work, go to my bedroom to get my house shoes and out of the corner of my eye I notice a black, shimmery, satiny object halfway underneath the bed. Before I even went to look, I knew it was the bonnet, but I also knew that someone must have placed it there since last night, because I looked there, twice as a matter of fact.  I knew that thought, just as the previous nights thoughts that someone had stolen the bonnet were ridiculous, but hey you have to have some kind of explanation when things just disappear.