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12-31-2018, 05:38 PM
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oh where do they go ... ?
So, just sittin' and strummin' - killing a little time before heading out for the evening, and I fumble my pick ... hear it bounce a couple times on the tile floor and decide I want to keep using that one, so rather than grab another I set my guitar on its stand and go after it ... but ... it's gone.
Ok, grab my phone, hit the built-in flashlight and start to look in earnest ... gone. Translucent amber Dunlop Ultex Jazz III XL ... dark grey tile floor ... should show up pretty well. Nope. So now it's a thing and I go get a proper flashlight and hit the lights in the kitchen to boot and even wielding a respectable 700 lumens isn't disclosing this thing's hiding place ... Move the dog dish, the trash can, the chair, the table ... the rest of the chairs ... nada, zip, zilch ... ... the chairs, guitar and stand are now out of the room, I'm on all fours under the table, trusty torch in hand and the dogs think I've lost my mind because I'm now talking to this elusive bit of plastic ... and not in a particularly kind way I assure you ... and when did crawling around on my hands and knees start hurting so darn much ... ? finally, with a sigh of surrender, I gather myself up ... put the room back in order ... painfully aware that I have been washed clean of any "mojo" I may have mustered in the first place; I grab another pick and begin to write a ballad ... an ode, if you will ... my bittersweet tale of the vortex that swallowed my mojo ...  ...
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12-31-2018, 06:22 PM
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It's amazing how a pick can just disappear like that. Same thing used to happen when I'd hit the ball to my dog ... you'd follow it with your eyes to the location in the brush but could never find it.
Here's to you finding new mojo and a great ode with your new pick.
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12-31-2018, 07:07 PM
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I gave up hunting for dropped picks decades ago. They are fairies that take them. One may sometimes reappear, but there ain't no guarantee.
The really annoying ones are the picks you put down on the table right beside you, glancing away for a second...and they are gone when you look right back. I swear there are fairies.
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12-31-2018, 07:13 PM
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The last pick that I thought I lost had bounced between my foot and my flip flop. I walked on it all day. I'm also one of those guys that you see shaking their guitar, rattling their picks out of the sound hole.
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12-31-2018, 07:32 PM
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Maybe you need one of there?
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12-31-2018, 07:34 PM
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Douglas Adams (Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy etc., ) had a theory relating to missing biro pens:
“Somewhere in the cosmos, he said, along with all the planets inhabited by humanoids, reptiloids, fishoids, walking treeoids and superintelligent shades of the color blue, there was also a planet entirely given over to ballpoint life forms. And it was to this planet that unattended ballpoints would make their way, slipping away quietly through wormholes in space to a world where they knew they could enjoy a uniquely ballpointoid lifestyle, responding to highly ballpoint-oriented stimuli, and generally leading the ballpoint equivalent of the good life". So, look for the wormhole in space which takes lost picks to Planet Plectra!
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12-31-2018, 07:34 PM
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Give it a week. It'll turn up in the dryer.
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12-31-2018, 09:14 PM
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I think of those that take things as gremlins. It's what they do for fun. When they're done having fun they often give them back (picks, socks, whatever).
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12-31-2018, 09:36 PM
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I’ve laid them down beside my guitar on the bed and walked off for whatever reason and come back a few minutes later and it’s gone! How does this happen??
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01-01-2019, 02:49 AM
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Totally true story. When I was in my dorm room as an undergrad, I lost at least a dozen picks one year. When I moved out at the end of the year, I'd thought I'd recover them all. Only found 1 pick and a bunch of pennies.
So, that convinced me they turn into pennies. 
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01-01-2019, 08:55 AM
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That would make a nice wall ornament in a guitar room.
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01-01-2019, 08:58 AM
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Thanks to all for the assurances and support ... once again, group therapy prevails ...
Andy, love the Planet Plectra theory ... along with the Hitchhiker's Guide reference, it is now clear to me my pick has transitioned to a higher, more plectroid specific existence ... Plexistentialism? ...
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01-01-2019, 09:04 AM
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Great minds ... I'm still working the kinks out of this one ...   ...
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