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#191

I'm pretty good at hide-and-seek, partly because I'm pretty good at coming up with creative ways to hide things. There are all sorts of ways to hide things. The best ways are hiding things in plain sight. Say you've got, I dunno, a piano, and you want to hide it from your crazy uncle, who figures he can play, but he can't, and it hurts to listen to him try. Well, before he comes over, take the hinges off the piano cover and lean that up against the garage wall with the miscellaneous boards of plywood all garages have. Pluck out all the black keys, and hang them from wind chimes. Take the white keys and caulk them into the veranda floor, so it looks like some kind of mosaic tiling. If you've got any leftover white keys, you can just cover them with ink and extend the wind chimes some more. Take the piano legs and pound one each into the ground next to young trees in the yard, then tie the strings around them, so it looks like you've just transplanted these nice young saplings and are keeping them upright until they're more firmly rooted. All the little hammers and dampers and stuff can be sorted by size and laid out on your workbench next to the size-sorted screwdrivers, drill bits, and wrench heads, like they belong there, and nobody will give them a second glance. At this point, all you should be left with is a pile of miscellaneous boards and blocking. Go out in the garden and bury it. I know it sounds like a lot of work, but at least you won't have to listen to Uncle George playing "Chopsticks" again.