Over the last two years I have lost four gloves. However I have only lost the right hand glove on each occasion. It is infuriating to say the least. In each case I kept the remaining glove. Statistically each time one loses a glove there is a 50% chance of losing either glove. However after 4 attempts I cannot believe that it is the right hand glove in each case. I shall now throw the blue ones away but I shall keep the leather gloves on the grounds that next time....... An irony is that prior to these losses I've always worn my gloves out and thrown them away - never lost them.
How strange. I have never lost a glove, but I am always losing odd socks. My washing machine must eat them.
ReplyDeleteI haven't lost a sock for a while, JayCee, but I'd rather lose them than leather gloves!
DeleteI would think that if you are Right handed then you might take off the glove to get keys out of pocket, money out of wallet etc and could drop the glove that way. But you are correct in assuming it's Sod's Law that you can't make a pair.
ReplyDeleteHowever, throw them away and the other hand will reappear. Lesley
Lesley, I know that on one occasion with the leather gloves I took them off as I got out of the car and presumably dropped it although it wasn't there when I returned a short while later but on the other occasion I cannot even hazard a guess as to how it disappeared but it was when I was in or getting out of the car. I've just ordered a new pair of leather gloves so I'll see if I can get more than one winter out of this pair.
DeleteOn losing the right hand glove? Apart from being charmingly strange it clearly demonstrates a Special Skill and perhaps you should be proud of it 🤣
ReplyDeleteDoes Singular Glove Misplacement have a special "World" day?
Or else it is exactly everything which Lesley said . . .
Jayne, it's a Special Skill I'd rather not have! By the way have you seen/read "Days Like These" by Brian Bilston?
DeleteAha! I think you have a subliminal desire to become left-handed, Graham; sinister is the word if I am not mistaken, with all its evil connotations. The dark side is being revealed. Time to get thyself to a shrink perhaps!
ReplyDeleteDavid, I don't think that a shrink would want to peer into the nether reaches of what passes for my mind! I recall a QC giving a speech at the House of Debates when I was at Uni. He gave the speech in Latin and all I can recall is that he marched up and down to "Sinister, dexter, sinister, dexter". Most of my Latin has gone with the mists of time.
DeleteI suppose whoever said that above about taking off the right glove more often is likely to be right. I can't recall losing a glove recently but I do think I probably take off my right one more because that's the one I need to take off to take photos!
ReplyDeleteMonica, I'm sure that you and Lesley are probably correct about taking the right hand glove off more.
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ReplyDeleteBeing right handed, it is more likely the right glove will be removed and put somewhere when a bare hand is needed. It makes sense the right glove will go missing.
Socks get sucked into the outside of the washing drum. A repair man showed me that.
Maywyn, your common sense removes the mystery but you're probably correct! So that's what happens to socks! I'll know where to look if I lose any.
DeleteHow strange. I have just written a post about lost gloves, too, but it won't be published just yet. There's no logic, as far as I can see.
ReplyDeleteJablog, I shall keep an eye out for your post.
DeleteGraham, you might need those glove clips that I used to put on the mittens of my children when they were little so they wouldn't lose them! That way you can slip it off but it is still attached to your sleeve! :)
ReplyDeleteEllen, I'd forgotten about the fact that my Mum attached a cord to my mittens as a child and fed it through the sleeves of my coat. Perhaps I should do that now.
DeleteI often wear only the left glove, e.g. for cutting up prunings, and use tools such as secateurs bare right-handed. So statistically it would seem that the right is more at risk of loss.
ReplyDeleteIndeed, Tasker, that makes sense.
DeleteHow funny. Or not.
ReplyDeleteOnce upon a time I lost a pair of leather gloves given to me by my mother. I had taken them off in the car, put them in my lap, arrived in the dark. Got out of car. Bingo. Sugar. Years later my youngest sister knitted some silver grey Cashmere gloves for me. I lost one. I retraced all my steps. To no avail. I was gutted. So gutted I eventually parted with the other one as well as it was too much of a painful reminder. This is some fifteen years or so ago. I still haven't told her. Though do live in hope that if I did she'd knit me another pair.
Last year I foolishly bought a pair of yellow leather gloves. On returning home I realised that they are exactly the same hue as my Marigolds (rubber - the ones you use for washing up). Great. Sunk money. At least I won't lose either the right or the left.
Anyway, good to see you on the page again, Graham. Don't get lost.
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PS Just remembered that in the olden days kids' gloves were held together on a thread weaved through the sleeves and the back of your coat! Genius.
Thanks, Ursula. I've just written that that's what my Mum did with my mittens when I was a child ie attach the gloves by a thread through my sleeves. Good common sense.
DeleteYou should soon be receiving offers of mutually beneficial glove swapping from those who have lost their left hand gloves.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Andrew. Perhaps I could start a lost glove bank.
DeleteHow very peculiar!
ReplyDeleteThe story of my life, Debby.
DeleteIf only you could lose a left just once!
ReplyDeleteWell, perhaps next time, Kylie.
DeleteIf we are right handed and going to do something we take the right hand glove off. Then we forget it and leave it someplace.
ReplyDeleteAs always, Red, your logic and common sense are perfect.
DeleteI wear two silver rings; both on the same finger (see yesterday's photo). One was found inside a glove that my wife was throwing out, she just happened to feel something lumpy inside. It turned out to be a simple ring that my youngest had bought in Morocco to celebrate an eclipse that he'd gone to witness. I feel that it brings me luck.
ReplyDeleteI'd noticed the rings, Cro. Perhaps I should wear a ring to bring me some glove luck.
DeleteI keep hearing/reading that people lose socks in the washing; I must admit that this has never happened to me. The only washing that I ever lost was not really lost - someone nicked undies from my clothes horse at the place I used to live before I bought this flat; there were six flats in the house and a common room in the basement for washing machines etc.
ReplyDeleteMeike, I'd be looking at my neighbours for ever wondering which one was the undies nicker.
DeleteYou should consider surgery on your right hand - moving your thumb to the other side. In this way you will be able to use two left-handed gloves to make a pair. Just a thought.
ReplyDeleteOn reflection, YP, I've decided that a new pair of leather gloves will be less expensive and I don't want to bother the NHS at the moment. It's busy.
DeleteThat is very annoying. I wonder where you left them. X
ReplyDeleteJules, I thought I knew where I dropped one but it wasn't there when I returned a short while later.
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