Where did I put my shorts?

[conuly]

Serious question, everybody.

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Comments

[dine]

are they on the closet floor?

under the bed?

taken away by the dog and hidden someplace impossible?

[conuly]

No closet. Looked under bed but will look again. My shorts are bigger than my dog so tht seems unlikely.

[jtthomas]

Might the dog have tugged them under your bed?

[conuly]

Not a bad thought, but no, that wasn't it.

[delight]

I am definitely also suspect that a dog could be responsible for the missing shorts.

And as someone who is very fair skinned but also Latina, I sympathize with the folks in that metafilter thread and the original article to some extent. I have strongly Latin American features, but my coloring tends to wash away people's perceptions of me as nonwhite; it turns into a really weird experience, because fellow Latin@ recognize me as one of the group but anyone who is not Latin@ thinks I'm not either (unless they're looking at a black and white photo). It's not just white people making the assumption that I must be white. I have never stopped to unpack this but I HAVE noticed it.

[hilarita]

I dunno, but I just ordered some more shorts because all mine are AWOL too.

[conuly]

Mmm, but the bank card is in the shorts, so.

[chanter1944]

... In the drawer? 😇

[conuly]

Can we be serious please?

[chanter1944]

Sorry. :(

[conuly]

I was being facetious :)

[conuly]

/s

[redsixwing]

Try the refrigerator? (Sensible suggestions have been made, so I'm filling gaps.

...and my roommate may once have left keys in the refrigerator, so.)

[conuly]

I once left the bank card in the fridge. Today I know I left it... in those shorts.

[dewline]

The deep freezer. Or the dryer.

[conuly]

No, but thanks.

[brokenallbroken]

They don't happen to be the same color as the bedding or a piece of furniture, do they?

[conuly]

They're denim, so they're the same color as all my other denim shorts.

[brokenallbroken]

So they're not chameleon-ing on the bed. Okay.

[adrian_turtle]

Between the washing machine and the wall.
Mixed in with Ana's clothes?

[gatheringrivers]

I found a pair of mine on a stack of boxes near the door to the basement. But then the last couple weeks have been "naked is wearing too damn much" levels of hot with the HVAC broken. :(

[conuly]

I feel ya.

[greghousesgf]

I wish the art tutor article had been longer than a few lines.

[conuly]

It is. Did the comics not load?

[greghousesgf]

the comics did load but they were very short

[kengr]

They’re Haunted by ‘Ghost Warrants’ Years After Their Arrests

Even worse are the cases where typos or some other error result in the warrant having someone else's info.

So the warrant which was for John Smith shows up when you enter Jack Smith's info.

The folks this happens to often have letters from the department that the original warrant is from describing the error and telling the arresting department who to call to confirm the letter.

A big source of these errors is that the national system sends out these warrants and in case of errors or other things usually sends out corrections or cancellations.

But the local departments (even state police!) often are set up so that warrants from the national system get added to their database, but the corrections and withdrawals *aren't*.

[conuly]

But the local departments (even state police!) often are set up so that warrants from the national system get added to their database, but the corrections and withdrawals *aren't*.

There ought to be a law that they have to pay out every time they catch somebody they weren't supposed to. That'll learn 'em.

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

Frivolous answer: "Ubo, O ubo est sububo?" is dog-Latin for "Where, O where is my underwear?". Lingua canem sola bonum lingua est. Your dogs might know where your shorts are.

[conuly]

Why does everybody think my dogs took my shorts? They're more interested in snuggling in my blankets than my clothing.

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

I don't say they took them; merely that they may know where they are. Where were they, anyway? Gym bag, laundry basket, dryer or dresser drawer?

[conuly]

Shoved into a corner of my room.

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

See, I bet your dogs knew that, especially if you'd worn the shorts already.

[conuly]

Yeah, but there are no ways of making them talk.

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

That's why you ask in dog-Latin!