Where did it go?
Two of us sat in a friend's bedroom sometime in the eighties; stoned, bored and idly throwing a tennis ball to one another. My mate Neil threw the ball to me - I fumbled the catch and the ball bounced off my leg and rolled off somewhere. I got up to retrieve it, looking around my immediate vicinity. No sign of it. So I began looking under things. No sign of it. Then I started moving things. No sign of it. Then Neil joined in. We looked everywhere, two of us scouring every corner of the room, even places where it surely couldn't possibly have reached, but there was absolutely no trace of the damn thing. At this point we both agreed to call off the search, thinking it was bound to turn up at some point. We sat back down, opposite each other on the floor, and there, equidistant between us was the (bright green) tennis ball sitting there in the middle of the (dark maroon) carpet. Baffled to this day.
(Haywood Manley, Fri 14 Oct 2011, 17:24, 7 replies)

I think I can solve this one:
you were both stoned.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Fri 14 Oct 2011, 18:22, closed)

Yeah, but not that stoned.
(Haywood Manley, Fri 14 Oct 2011, 18:42, closed)

Cataracts?
Most likely, if the ball really wasn't between you when you started looking, it had landed on something, then got dislodged when you started moving things around.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Fri 14 Oct 2011, 18:55, closed)

That is the most likely explanation.
(Haywood Manley, Fri 14 Oct 2011, 19:01, closed)

If you say you've got glaucoma rather than cataracts
then you've also got the perfect excuse to get stoned & then lose the ball.
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Sat 15 Oct 2011, 5:51, closed)

You were both fucking idiots.

( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Sat 15 Oct 2011, 17:06, closed)

A fair point
if a tad unwarranted.
(Haywood Manley, Sun 16 Oct 2011, 14:36, closed)