gnomi is a Doofus, Knitting Edition

[gnomi]

mabfan and I met for lunch today, and while I was waiting for the T back from lunch, I was sitting on a bench on the platform and knitting. I was finishing up a glove finger, and when the train pulled in, I'd set aside my working needle to draw the tail through the remaining 6 stitches. While I was doing this, the train pulled in, so I got up and got onto the train. As soon as the doors closed, I realized I couldn't remember where I'd put my working needle, and I thought I'd heard something fall as I stood up to get on the train. Eh, I thought, it's a plastic double-pointed out of a set of 5. Not a horrible loss, though annoying, since I just bought those double-pointeds.

I get back to my office, get back to my work. After a bit, I realize I want to go talk to seborn for a moment. I reach up to take off my reading glasses and...

Find the missing needle. Stuck behind my ear. Where it had been for over an hour.

Comments

[farwing.livejournal.com]

*giggles* dude, usually one loses one's glasses that way, not one's knitting needles...

[farwing.livejournal.com]

um...that didn't make much sense, i realize... *is all woolyheaded*

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

*is all woolyheaded*

*knits using the wool from your head. Ooh, farwing-sweater!*

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

I lose my glasses (well, either my reading glasses or my regular glasses while wearing my contacts) by sticking them into my pocket.

[suzvoy.livejournal.com]

Ha! :D

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

:-)

I'm a big dork sometimes.

But I'm a fun dork, which -- at least in my mind -- makes up for some of it.

[suzvoy.livejournal.com]

Hey, nothing wrong with being a dork *g*.

[perpet.livejournal.com]

Feel no pain, my dear. I once spent twenty minutes looking for a pencil that was between my teeth. Behind the ear? I've done that with crochet hooks more than I care to admit. Most recently, last night.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

It's comforting to know it's not just me.

I've misplaced my glasses into my pocket, but in my defense it's only while wearing my contact lenses. Since I'm blind as a bat without my glasses.

[byrne.livejournal.com]

I've done that, minus the train, but plus a dinner out.

*hangs head*

[farwing.livejournal.com]

What kind of restaurant were you at? I am suddenly filled with the image of you knitting pasta...

[byrne.livejournal.com]

Boston Pizza, which I understand has no actual ties to Boston and is a Canadian chain... :P Family style place, think Olive Garden.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Nice to know it's not just me.

I don't usually get to knit while out to dinner. Though as farwing and mabfan can attest, I sometimes eye chopsticks with intent to knit. Especially if there's lo mein involved (though I've never yet gotten to the casting-on-with-lo mein stage).

[tsuki-no-bara.livejournal.com]

bwahahaha! you dork. :D

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Indeed. In spades.

I so need a "dork" icon.

[joecoustic.livejournal.com]

Ah but you see I tend to see this as a lucky habit (action) or they very well may have been left behind. So you were actually very clever! ;)

At first I thought the punch line was going to be that since the needle was in your hair that meant the glasses had fallen - I'm glad that didn't happen!!

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

My reading glasses are cheap CVS-bought ones so I don't feel bad if I lose them. Of course, this tends to guarantee that they don't get lost. :-)

And, yeah, sticking things behind my ears is not such a bad habit if it means I don't just leave things on my lap and then lose them when I stand up (which is what I thought had happened with the needle).

[madfilkentist]

I do things like that all the time. I can lose my glasses while wearing them.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

I'm too nearsighted to lose my glasses while wearing them. It's a binary function -- either I can see or I can't. Other things -- pens, pencils, and, apparently, knitting needles -- are easy for me to lose while they're actually still attached to my person somehow.

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

I do that with pens all the time...

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

I tend to notice pens, since they're usually thicker. This needle has a circumference of 3.5 mm, and was thus completely ignorable until I actually hit it while taking off my reading glasses.

[bluepapercup]

Yeah, I've lost hammers that were attached to my belt the whole time. *sigh*

Countless pens behind the ear, too, and stubs of pencils in shirt pockets.

We're ALL dorks!

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Dorks of the world, Unite! We have nothing to lose but...our pens! Our hammers! Our knitting needles!

:-)

[lisafeld.livejournal.com]

Oh man! How long will it take to get new glasses?

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Actually, I have my glasses. And they're cheap, CVS-purchased reading glasses, since I figure that it's more economical in case I lose them. When I wear my contacts, I need reading glasses for computer work and close work, so that I don't get eyestrain. But how I managed to put on my reading glasses without noticing the knitting needle is a mystery to me.