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02/15/12, 01:43 PM
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Weird. Very weird.
I came downstairs this morning, into the kitchen, and noticed something on the floor. My floor is pale grey tile, and this was very noticeable. I thought, at first, it was a twig or something that the dogs had tracked in. I picked it up, thinking to toss it in the garbage...
It was a bobby pin. A black bobby pin.
No one here uses bobby pins. I've not seen anyone with a bobby pin in their hair for years, and there it was, sitting on the floor in the middle of my kitchen.
And I am absolutely certain it wasn't there the night before.
How weird is that?
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02/15/12, 01:45 PM
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dogs musta tracked it in?
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02/15/12, 01:51 PM
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Boy, that would really get me to thinking. Have you had visitors in the last day or two who could have dropped one? Spooky
What's really off the wall, I haven't seen or heard of anyone putting their hair up in pincurls for years, didn't even know if 'they' sold bobby pins anymore. My buddy cut my hair for me yesterday and I was wondering how my new do would look in pincurls, went to town and found bobby pins! But....no, it wasn't me in your kitchen, honest, I haven't tried 'em yet.
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02/15/12, 01:52 PM
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That's not only weird, it's kind of creepy and scary. Years ago I bought a used, very high end vaccum cleaner. It worked great, but clogged easily. When I tore it apart to find out why, I found two bobby pins in there.
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02/15/12, 01:53 PM
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I saw one in the kitchen floor the other day, too! I have VERY short hair and don't use them.
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02/15/12, 01:56 PM
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I wouldn't think anything of it, because around here something is always dragged out into the middle of the floor. And, yea, we do have bobby pins.
I'd think it either got knocked down or dragged out from under a cabinet.
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02/15/12, 01:57 PM
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When my daughter was young
She found a very small wedding ring on the floor of her room. None of us had ever seen it before.
Maybe prior owners are coming back to visit..
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I saw them on the ground all the time when I'd go out walking in the burbs...maybe someone tracked it in on their shoe?
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02/15/12, 02:14 PM
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If, as I do, you live in a very old house often times I will find odd things also. i think that with the old floors and with the kitchen having a wooden ceiling that is actually the attic floor..that things find their ways through cracks. Larger items..well...if you have visitors ..just ask them to do a little housework while they visit. The smell of pipe and cigar smoke is smelled in this old house sometimes...but don't let it bother me anymore..kind of comforting.
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02/15/12, 02:24 PM
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I saw them on the ground all the time when I'd go out walking in the burbs...maybe someone tracked it in on their shoe?
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This is what I was going to suggest. Have folks check their shoes, maybe they have sticky shoes and the bobby pin got picked up. Or maybe it got stuck just right in someone's tread.
I have found weird things when I clean out cupboards or sweep behind hard to reach places... old outdated coupons, stuff like that. But never anything right in the middle of the floor. It would weird me out a little, too.
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02/15/12, 02:34 PM
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Bobby pins seem to be enjoying a comeback. My oldest daughter didn't use them but youngest daughter does. They come in all different hair shades now so maybe you just didn't notice them in someone's dark hair. You can't really see them in my daughter's hair. She uses them in place of a barrette.
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02/15/12, 02:39 PM
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02/15/12, 02:46 PM
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Non of my business, but do you know where your husband was last night??
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02/15/12, 02:55 PM
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Do you have a cat?
When we had a house cat it was always fishing strange stuff out nooks and crannies. Like glass from under the stove.
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Bobby pins are very common right now....I find tons when cleaning at the health club where I work. They can get stuck to shoes and tracked around a fair amount.
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Ghostly visit!!!
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02/15/12, 03:16 PM
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We use bobby pins all the time. No idea about the strange appearance though!
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02/15/12, 03:30 PM
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dogs musta tracked it in?
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That's what I thought, when I thought it was a twig. But we live in the middle of nowhere, and the dogs never go anyplace. I'd have thought it possible if it were an old-looking pin, but it looks brand new -- I don't think it could have been outside and tracked in by the dogs, as it was new and clean.
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Originally Posted by mary,tx
I wouldn't think anything of it, because around here something is always dragged out into the middle of the floor. And, yea, we do have bobby pins.
I'd think it either got knocked down or dragged out from under a cabinet.
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We gutted and installed this kitchen when we moved in here, or I might have thought that, too. And it was right in the middle of the room!
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Originally Posted by uncle Will in In.
Non of my business, but do you know where your husband was last night??
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He knows I'd skin him and use him for bait. 
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Do you have a cat?
When we had a house cat it was always fishing strange stuff out nooks and crannies. Like glass from under the stove.
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No cat. Two monstrous dogs, though!
I think it must have been on DH's shoe from work, if you ladies are correct and younger women are now using them again. He was the only one through the kitchen between my going to bed and my getting up the next morning. He wears shoes with a deep tread that one might easily have gotten stuck in.
The alternative is that Winnie -- the lady who lived in this house before us and whose children we bought the property from -- has decided to say "hi". Which I don't mind at all -- by all reports, she was exactly the type of woman I would have gotten along with wonderfully!
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02/15/12, 04:40 PM
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02/15/12, 04:41 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by uncle Will in In.
Non of my business, but do you know where your husband was last night??
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