I live with my elderly mother. There's just two of us in the house; nobody else. One day she knocks a frozen steak out of the freezer onto the floor-- I heard it hit the floor while I was in the basement with a pretty good "thud."
When I came upstairs, my mother said she couldn't find the steak, which I thought was rather impossible cuz steaks-- especially frozen ones-- don't bounce or roll. But the steak was really, inexplicably, *gone.* Nowehere to be found. Never has been found, either; it just vanished!
My mother has no sense of humor; this was no joke, nor was there any place she could hide such a steak where it couldn't be found eventually. But of course she wouldn't waste food like that. To this day, we don't know what happened to the vanished steak.
On the other hand, sometimes things would vanish from where they were put to show up days, sometimes even weeks later. I once saw a missing videotape literally fall out of the air onto my bed! What's going on here?
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