The vanishing brush
This one happened to my parents when they were just married. They were cleaning their flat, my dad dusting in the living room while my mom was vacuum cleaning in the kitchen. She had just used the little add-on brush you use to reach the small areas of floor between cupboards etc, and placed it on the kitchen table. When she wanted to use it again, the brush was no longer where she’d left it My parents were the only people in the flat, they didn’t have any pets and anyway the kitchen was too small for anyone to reach the brush without physically touching my mom.

Cue much searching, throughout the whole flat, in all the likely and unlikely places, but the brush had simply vanished.

Two years later, some soup got spilled on the cooker (one of those old fashioned stand-alone things) and managed to seep through the side of the backplane into the interior of the cooker. Because rotting soup inside a cooker isn’t a nice thing to have in an otherwise clean kitchen, my parents wanted to clean the insides of the cooker. This required the moving of the cooker and the unscrewing of 8 rusty screws.

After 10 minutes, the backplane finally came off. Inside the cooker they found the offending soup, as well as the brush they’d lost 2 years previously. How it could have ended up inside a locked metal cooker whose only entrance was facing a wall, remains a mystery to this day.

If there was a pun to it, you’d be even less inclined to believe me…


*by the way: ~pop!~ *
(Poezestrepe, Wed 9 Jul 2008, 20:20, Reply)