What do you do when you lost something? Nothing big, just a trivial thing, like an electric adaptor that costs three dollars.

My husband swore that he placed the adaptor together with the busted extension sockets in the kitchen counter a week ago and then when he wants it now and could not find it, went ballistic and interrogated all the people in the house including a 4 year old kid. My mother and I never saw that adaptor he is talking about yet he swears by his life that it was in the place he remembered he last time saw it. Seven days ago. Who could have thrown it? I certainly didn’t, my mom didn’t and we all know that Pristine knows her boundaries regarding electrical fixtures. Darling daughter never, not even once ever touched an electric wire ever since!

Point is, hubby was huffing and panting with anger (mostly to himself, I bet) that the adaptor was lost. He kept on looking for it and murmuring God knows what. I just ignored him as he is always like that. My biggest hunch was that he threw the adaptor with the busted extension sockets but forgot. He is sometimes disoriented when tired from work and he was last week.

For me, it is really useless to be looking for something missing for more than an hour, especially things that are trivial and can be easily replaced. The whole atmosphere at home was tensed just because of his gesture. If it was me, I’d quit looking for the item and buy another one to lessen the emotional damage, to myself and the people around me but to some people, I guess every little thing counts, regardless of the effect it does on people around them.

How about you, would you rather search for the thing until you find it or buy a replacement to save your sanity?