You lost something so you go looking for it and you can't find it so you give up. Three months go by and you forgot about the thing and it suddenly appears in front of you but you don't need it anymore so you put it away. A month goes by and now you need it again but it's again hopelessly lost and can't be found.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 month ago

And the worst part is that you can picture the thing in its place in your head because you just walked past it every day for three months, semi-consciously clocking its location. But now that you need it, it has vanished.