When I die, a thousand hair bands will come out of hiding!...

[Phentex]

where do they go to hide? I buy them in packs and only use them when I work out or when I cook. And I usually only take them out when I'm about to take a shower. So they should be in a drawer in the bathroom, right? Well, where ARE THEY? Where do they go? Why do I have to search for them? Have they gone to live with the missing socks and safety pins?

:yoiks:

[Fleshdancer]

1. I'm not alone!!!

I can't figure out where my hair bands go either. No matter how many I buy, I can only find one and I have to spend a good 5 minutes searching for it! Sneaky little suckers.

[Phentex]

11. and for another odd reason...

they come in packs of 17.

Why not 15 or 20?

What is this ponytail holder conspiracy?

:)

[av8rdave]

2. When they come out of hiding....

Gimme back some of my ball point pens, ok?

[Phentex]

12. those houdinis!

I also wanna know where they end up. I wonder how many pens are purchased from sheer loss?

[grace0418]

3. Like Pantera and Twisted Sister?

;)

[NewJeffCT]

4. That was my thought as well

[Tom_Foolery]

5. Same here. n/t

[Arkansas Granny]

6. Me too.

[grace0418]

8. My next thought was "I hope Phentex lives a good long time!"

I don't want to witness hair bands coming out from hiding.

[Phentex]

15. ROFL! Uh...

me too!

Zombie Hair Bands!

[HopeHoops]

7. "Twisted Sister". Hmm. I've got a story for you (1983 actual event)

One of my best friends is a guy I worked with from 1982 - 1985. He's about 10 years older than me (I'm 47). One day I asked him what his favorite band was. He said he didn't really have a favorite, but his LEAST favorite was Twisted Sister. Of course this provided me with a mission. I had to find a poster - the one with the lead singer holding some kind of raw meat on a bone. I looked EVERYWHERE (and this is when the band was "popular") but couldn't find it. Finally, out of desperation, I went into the dreaded K-Tel Records store.

Perhaps you remember the commercials. Some random hand with a hammer smashing an LP on a turntable while the barf-voice announcer (at 2:00 A.M.) screams, "K-TEL RECORDS BREAKS ITS OWN RECORD!......"

If you were nodding off during Creature Feature's presentation of "Creature From the Black Lagoon", that woke your ass up and reminded you how badly you had to pee.

Among other no-talent band posters, there it was - the bone poster. I purchased it. They were about $1.29 back then, not $6.00 like they are now. I put it on the back of the door to his office with masking tape and put a sticky note pad on it with a caption balloon that said "FISH HEAD".

A little background. We had a Prime mini computer in the office. One of the things you could do was send messages to other terminals. He didn't know that I had figured out how to get past security settings to do this on his terminal. Out of nowhere, "FISH HEAD" showed up on his terminal. From the other room, I heard him yell, "FISH HEAD?" It became a running gag.

Anyway, I hadn't heard anything, and being 20 or so I didn't have a lot of patience, but I waited. About three days later he came into the programming pit where a bunch of us coded for about 45 hours a day and smoked at least six packs of cigarettes each and screamed, "YOU SON OF A BITCH!"

He had a serious and important phone call to take from a client. It was the first time he had shut his door since I put up the poster. He sat down, told the receptionist he was ready for the call, and just as the client connected he looked up and saw the poster and the sticky note. I can understand why he might have been a little pissed. It was also pretty obvious who was guilty.

[grace0418]

9. He laughed about it eventually though didn't he? That's pretty damn funny.

Did he totally bust out laughing in the client's ear? LOL!

[HopeHoops]

10. Actually, he had one of those "uh, uh, uh, uh," moments.

I can see why he was pissed, but it wasn't MY fault that he didn't close the door until then. And yes, we laughed about it later. We crashed at his place after my bachelor's party in '87 (Baltimore). He was supposed to go but was sick at the time. We went to Fell's Point and the first bar we stopped at was The Horse You Rode In On. My buddies almost killed me on Tequila right then and there. No, we didn't hit any strip joints.

[Phentex]

14. That's a great story!

As an aside, I remember Creature Feature. I thought it was scary!

[HopeHoops]

31. Yeah, well, as a pre-teen so did I. Now I think the Creature from the Black Lagoon is cute.

[Phentex]

13. LOL! Phen and the Ponytail Holders...

:o

[lildreamer316]

17. That was EXACTLY what I thought.

Took me a sec to get it right.

WINGER!!

[NV Whino]

16. They are mating with mismatched socks

The result ain't gonna be pretty. Live long and prosper.

[Phentex]

24. LOL. Some sort of

stretchy invisible footwear I guess.

[texanwitch]

18. I remember a movie about little people who lived under the floors and took little household things.

Don't remember the name of the movie but it might be true.

Where do all the little things go anyway.

Also things can disappear and appear again.

I found the movie on youtube, it is called The Borrowers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5d1mwwc_QPk

[Phentex]

26. I loved the Borrowers!...

But now I wish they'd move on!

Are they making a rubber raft with these?

[Duer 157099]

19. OMG so that's what those little things all over my bathroom counter are!

I have the opposite problem, I use one but have TONS of them everywhere!

There's a wormhole somewhere that ends in my bathroom. Wait, that sounds wrong.

[Phentex]

29. Yes, it does

sound funky!

I'm glad yours stay around.

[valerief]

20. If they're made of Pyrex and you slap Wesson Oil on them, they've got a cloak

of invisibility. For all you know, they could be everywhere. You just can't see them.

[Phentex]

25. They HAVE to be...

I keep buying them. I wonder if they are made to self-destruct after a certain time...

[Taverner]

21. I do not know where you women's hair bands go

Wife and daugher - always lose hair bands.

Dog eats them I think

Do you have dog?

[Phentex]

27. Two...

but they don't go upstairs.

The big beast will eat anything though.

[Taverner]

32. Dogs = Bears

As far as I'm conerned.

You get a dog, you're getting the friendly pack version. The one that wants to work, mister, for YOU!

You get a cat, you've got a Lion . The one that wants YOU to work, mister, for THEM. But they understand a good cuddle, so its all good.

Dogs and Bears share an ancestor.

[Ineeda]

22. mine are under the furniture with all the other cat toys.

[Phentex]

28. Just dog hair, a few odd pieces of candy, and the

occasional lego under the furniture here. :)

[applegrove]

23. The socks aren't missing.... the lint just got together and formed a sock shape. LOL!

[Phentex]

30. which

my son would wear if he found it.

He wears mismatched socks when he's too lazy to look for the mate.

[applegrove]

34. LOL. If my mom got a run in one stocking she would cut off that leg and save the rest of the

pantyhose. Then she's wait until she had another of the opposite leg pantyhose and wear two pairs of hose together.

[hippywife]

33. I wish ours were in hiding.

My hubs has beautiful silver hair down to his waist and always wears it tied back. They are lying around all over the place! His hair is very straight and fine and mine is thick and curly. When he feels his hairbands has lost their holding power, I use them. :D