Last night I lost my purse at the BART station. Good news: ~15 min later before I even realized I didn’t have it someone messaged me on FB telling me they had it and wanted to return it! Other news: it’s really bugging me out that I didn’t even notice it was gone.
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And it’s not like I sat down on a bench and gotten up without it. Evidently it got stuck in the escalator, so I guess that’s how it left my body? And I’m sure I’m in some sense overreacting, but it’s making me question my whole relationship to the physical world.
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Also I’m taking suggestions for classy ways to thank the couple that returned it to me. Having my credit card and ids and stuff back is something I would have paid a bunch of money for, but my guess is that I can do better than offering money?
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At home I put things down without even noticing, but I have rules for where I’m allowed to leave the objects, and the rest of the time I 95% get by on rules for myself about having the objects be physically attached to me and doing checks before changing locations.
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But here I’m just like yep, not covered by my rules. The bag *was* attached to me. And getting off an escalator has never had to count as a location change. So I’m left with my “natural awareness” or whatever and mine seems to be super buggy.
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Can someone who is naturally good at this explain how it feels from the inside? Not like “I have a very successful set of rules for not losing stuff”, and more like “yeah I just don’t lose things”.
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Replying to @diviacaroline
I've lost one object in my two months of backpacking last year. In general, I don't lose stuff. The process is always on. I've wondered if I'd be better off losing things more often. For what it's like from the inside? I'll get back to you, gotta check
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Replying to @mesolude @diviacaroline
Everything goes in the same places always. New stuff is most likely to get lost. If a hand is a designated place, I will drop and forget the thing if I have to take 2-handed actions. I can usually find it later. So BART is fine (only one-handed actions) but most events are not
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Replying to @mesolude @diviacaroline
I went skiing today, and almost lost my shoe it dropped. My tracking process was overloaded with gloves, shoes, skiis, ski poles. If I have to pull out my phone or figure something out? Hahhh.
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I am not sure I can provide introspection on my implicit tracking process that would help you reduce errors in yours. this is fun to talk about anyway!
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