losing ones marbles...

tallyho!

tallyho!

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Dear Sirs and Madams,

I quietly confirm that I have lost a few marbles. Perhaps it's due to my age. Only this afternoon, I got the wrong horse out of the field and had to put it back. Then when I got the right one out of the field, I tried to put the other one's tack on - only realising after seeing the girth was too long. After removing it, I had to trundle up the farm with it all in my pink wheelbarrow someone so kindly bought me for my **th birthday to get the right one out of the tackroom. It took me longer than usual as the lightbulb popped. It's dark in there and full of spiders. I had to climb through a few webs. I though I was late to meet my friend at the corner for usual ride. I called on the mobile phone and she said 'my dear, it's wednesday'. We usually meet on a Thursday. It was very lucky as I had forgotten my hat (no wonder my head was cold) and my gloves were the wrong way round.

Is there a society I can call for help. I'm quite desperate to find my marbles again. I can't cope with just this many.

Yours,

tallyho!

p.s. if you want to console me, I will be in the Hop Pole pub at 8pm. If I can still find it.
 
Dear Tallyho!

I, too, found myself a few months ago removing the wrong horse from the field - my mare's daughter.
Only a few weeks ago, I had to go through every chestnut in the field to find the one I meant to bring in.

I am 21. Please advise??????!!
P.S I shall not be joining you in the pub, as I am currently laid up after lying under a horse yesterday. I shall have a drink at home to our lost marble-ness!

Yours,
KellysHeroes
xx
 
Dear kellysheroes,

Thank the lord!! A marble-less friend!!! I cannot advise re: age. I fear it can affect you at random callous moments.

A shame you can't join me down the Pole. I will have to use the mobile phone to find more of the afflicted... there must be some. And there must be a place these marbles roll away to!!! If only I knew!

Yours,

t!.

p.s. what on earth were you doing under a horse may I ask? It's not a usual place to lay. And what are you drinking I will have some on your behalf at the pub

xx
 
Ladyinred said:
I often start a search for my marbles. Trouble is I always forget what I was searching for.
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Do you do that thing where you walk in a room and think "what did I come here for?". I did that too today. In the tack room. I'm doomed aren't I?
 
I keep a spare set in the drawer for emergencies...

This is not so bad. I had to ask my brother how old I was the other day and it took us half an hour and a bit of help from Mother!

Call it being eccentric - I am pleased to confirm that I am a part of this club and have been for some time...

There was an old lady who gave me my first horses because she could no longer cope with them. We were driving in the car one day when I happened to mention that she may possibly be driving on the wrong side and there happened to be another car traveling in the opposite direction... Not to worry dear there is plenty of room for it to go by on the other side was the reply and sure enough there was!

From that day on I decided that her attitude was fantastic and that I wanted to be eccentric when I grew up too. I haven't grown up yet but I have still managed to join the club!
 
The plot is definitely lost - it was only the other day grandad asked me take the mare from the field behind the house to the paddock across the road before work.
So I skipped along the road with lead rope in hand .. exactly like it would be if there actually was a horse on the end of it! I quickly ran home to fetch the mare :o
It gets worse, I'm only in my late teens :( :L x
 
Paddydou, what is this club called??? I must join this society!!! Maybe I too can have a set of marbles in my drawers!!!!!
 
polopony said:
The plot is definitely lost - it was only the other day grandad asked me take the mare from the field behind the house to the paddock across the road before work.
So I skipped along the road with lead rope in hand .. exactly like it would be if there actually was a horse on the end of it! I quickly ran home to fetch the mare :o
It gets worse, I'm only in my late teens :( :L x
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oooooooppssss!! That is hilarious!!! Makes me feel better actually thanks polopony (although secretly I think I've done something similar). :D:D:D:D

Late teens??? Diagnosis - marble erosion, early onset.
 
So glad to know I am not alone! I went shopping twice last week without my purse, and sent my daughter to school with two pieces of bread instead of the sandwich I found in the bread bin later on!
 
fallenangel123 said:
So glad to know I am not alone! I went shopping twice last week without my purse, and sent my daughter to school with two pieces of bread instead of the sandwich I found in the bread bin later on!
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Classic!! I once sent my OH to work with a plastic box of cheese and put his sarnie back in the fridge. Talking of which - phones deffo don't like being put in fridges. :D
 
tallyho! said:
Maybe I too can have a set of marbles in my drawers!!!!!
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How very uncomfortable!
I keep mine in a jar on the shelf above the sink in my classroom. Unfortunately I cannot get to them atm. It's 1/2 term.
I find that the most inconvenient thing I do without marbles is to drive to a completely different destination than the one I'm supposed to be going to (it's happened more than once, lol!)
I like the sound of the club. Please can I join?
 
Pearlsasinger said:
How very uncomfortable!
I keep mine in a jar on the shelf above the sink in my classroom. Unfortunately I cannot get to them atm. It's 1/2 term.
I find that the most inconvenient thing I do without marbles is to drive to a completely different destination than the one I'm supposed to be going to (it's happened more than once, lol!)
I like the sound of the club. Please can I join?
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I feel a clique coming on.... or is it just another hot flush?
 
tallyho! said:
Dear kellysheroes,

Thank the lord!! A marble-less friend!!! I cannot advise re: age. I fear it can affect you at random callous moments.

A shame you can't join me down the Pole. I will have to use the mobile phone to find more of the afflicted... there must be some. And there must be a place these marbles roll away to!!! If only I knew!

Yours,

t!.

p.s. what on earth were you doing under a horse may I ask? It's not a usual place to lay. And what are you drinking I will have some on your behalf at the pub

xx
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Dear Tallyho!
The mobile phone is indeed a great invention to call more of the afflicted...if only I could find mine!!
I fear our marbles may be in the same place...
And it was not my choice...the horse in question had a bad reaction to a drug and I happened to be in her way...!
I will drink anything except beer...so take your pick!
Yours,
KellysHeroes
xx
 
Dear Tallywho

I can share your misery. If I look at my watch, I always have to look again as I never "register" the time.
Just last week I turned up an hour too early for class.
And I always walk out the door of my home without the car keys.
I have to say that I never make the mistake of bringing in the wrong horse - but as my horse goes out with 2 donkeys, I always double check.

As for walking into a room fogetting what you were looking for - try a tack shop. I knew I had to go to get something, but for the life of me couldnt remember what :o

As for the loosing the marbles, I fear I was never given my 2 marbles at birth.
 
lostmymarbles said:
Welcome to my world...........
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:D

I had a moment of marblelessness (so not a word!) this morning when I tried to combine the coffee maker and the jar of coffee to brew. Did not work too well. Then went out to feed the cows and pony, got all feeds made, and went back to the house. Took me a good few minutes to work out why they were all so vocal still. :rolleyes:
 
tallyho! said:
Paddydou, what is this club called??? I must join this society!!!
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Please let me join too! If I lose any more marbles, I won't have any left at all :eek:

I read the road sign, get to the roundabout and can't remember which exit I was supposed to take.

I'm taking fish oil Omega 3 for memory when I remember to take them :o
 
I am pearlsasingers sister and can confirm her lack of marbles, I can also tell you that we have found a number of random marbles round the yard and in the field, the trouble is we can never be sure who they belong to, her, me or one of the horses, so they just collect up in random jars :D (never considered keeping them in my drawers, will have to give that some thought ) :)
Oh and can I join the club too, as I have taken to going shopping and coming home without the items I went for, but with items we don't actually need :eek: :D
 
I think I should have joined years ago.
I regularly forget what I'm doing, drive home to the wrong house (we've moved alot round the same area) I actually got as far as trying to get in the front door once.
At work there are only 2 keys to the secure room I left mine at home (1.5hr drive away) and locked my car and house keys and the boss's secure key in the room. Getting the room open involved borrowing a car to drive home, begging the estate agent to let me in, getting my key and driving back to work...
Later the same day I went to a friends place managed to walk into the wrong aparment block, hammer (polietly) on the door and get some poor woman out of her bath... :o

And I haven't even reached 5 and 20 yet.

Have I earn't a spot? Or am I automatically demoted to the loony bin?
 
FOUND THEM!:D

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They are all here, replacements of all shapes and sizes can be bought by mail order, although if you are near a visit is worth while, I lived 100m away and it's brilliant. I left my own marbles there for repair about 15 years ago...

http://www.houseofmarbles.com/marble-shop
 
I dont know if Im quite as potty as you guys yet, but Im getting there!
Regularly mix the wrong tea's in the wrong buckets and have to do a pour over of feeds, Ive taken wrong horses to wrong stables (been at my job nearly 3 years now!) and still call one of the geldings 'good girl' on a regular basis!
I drive the wrong way all the time, and have ended up in the local city when wanting to go home before - I have to drive past the turnoff to mine to get to the city!
When I put my car through the carwash, and then nipped into tesco's, I spent several mins panicing that my car had been stolen - and walked past it 3 or 4 times..well, it was clean, of course it wasnt mine!!!
 
I realised mine were lost some years ago when I turned up at a show at stupid o'clock, with 3 immaculate ponies and a fairly clean child... on the wrong day.
How my friends laughed ( all season).:o
So far, things haven't improved.
 
I had a big strop in an airport hire car lot the other day, only to be told that I had gone to a bay belonging to a totally different company and was therefore ineffectually jabbing the keys into the lock of a completely different make and model of car to the one it said on my little slip of paper:o

I then drove all the way up the motorway in 4th gear because I forgot to change up!:eek:

Can I join please?
 
Loving these, they are all so familiar.

Who else does the phoning someone to tell them something.. and promptly forget what you wanted to tell them? I do it all the time.
 
Oh dear - I think I may have to come out of the closet as a marble loser too....... searched multi-storey for car and remembered I had left it at the park and ride....... :o
 
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