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#124

Some things seem to be specifically engineered to be lost, like playing cards, jigsaw puzzle pieces, and car keys. Socks are so easily lost, it's a cliche to say so. As soon as I figure out what quality these items have that make them so elusive, I think I'm going to manufacture a set of products scientifically engineered to disappear when people take their eyes off them, then make my fortune selling replacement parts. Better yet, I'll sell self-losing pieces. You don't even have to be careless -- the component, whatever it is, will have a mechanism inside it that will send it to the fifth dimension or make it break up into its constituent molecules on the spot. Nobody'd find me out, because the evidence would get destroyed as part of the intended operation.