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THE EVAPORATION OF SOLID OBJECTS

A phenomenon familiar to investigators engaged in domestic inquiry, the evaporation of solid objects occurs with increasing frequency in households with residents over the age of seventy. Objects most likely to evaporate include reading glasses, car keys, wallets, and (a new category since these have come into common use) cellular communication devices.

Evaporation occurs at random, and usually with maximum importunity in respect to need and/or spousal urgency. Evaporation occurs independently of the last remembered location of the object, as the object is, in every case, not found there.

Evaporated objects often reconstitute at any time, and in any location, following the termination of research or the substitution of alternate objects of similar utility. However, factors of inconvenience, irritation, and spousal disaffection may increase the time between evaporation and reconstitution or substitution. Permanent evaporation may occur, but this cannot be determined until the previous factors have multiplied to the nth degree.

The cause is unknown.

Study Verified and Submitted by Barbara Loots
10/29/19

Comments

  1. I knew those glasses weren’t just missing. They evaporated! Can I just spill some water in a few places to make them reconstitute? (My problem is I need my glasses to find my glasses.)

  2. This is brilliant and the phrase “evaporation of solid objects” should come into wide cultural use. Around here, books and journals evaporate frequently, despite magical conjurations such as, “I left it RIGHT HERE.” Sometimes the object will rematerialize if all surrounding papers are shifted.

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