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Originally Posted by editec  Who (or what?) keeps stealing my silverware?
When I was first married I had silver-plate table setting ware for 12.
Now I'm struggling to find a spoon.
Where'd it all go?
Pre-Christian Czechs believed their world was inhabited by fairies and spirits which hid stuff, soured the milk, moved furniture so that you'd bump into it at night, and generally messed with people in small ways just for yucks.
I'm convinced they must be right.
Now I KNOW that evil spirits kill my lawnmowers every year.
I KNOW that the unseen world is taking my spoons and forks (but not knives?! Sup wid dat?).
I know perfectly well these devilish imps hide my glasses, smoke my cigarettes, and leave the lights on, too.
There is no rational explaination for these ongoing phenomena other than spirits.
My short term memory is perfect, I'm a reasonably careful person, yet STILL these apostates from hell plauge me with their death by a thousand petty annoyances routine.
Oh yea, two more things...they also leave wet towels on the bathroom floor, and they steal socks from the wash cycle. |
You make some very good points. Obviously, they have time to get into my silverware drawer as well, and I figure they must be amputees since they only steal one sock at a time. 
You did however leave out the part where they run about the house arbitrarily turning on lights in unhabited rooms just to watch the meter move. Since no one else in the house has a clue how they got turned on, it HAS to be them.
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Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft,
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