Helpful Spirits
Mood:  quizzical
Topic: Ghosts & Spirits
I have no doubt that I share my apartment with a spirit or two, but my husband hasn't been so easy to convince. Until lately.

We lose items. They just disappear. Of course, we aren't very organized, so this isn't that surprising. What is surprising, however, is how these lost items will simply show back up.

When something is lost, we'll turn the house upside down in an attempt to find it -- with absolutely no luck. I'll ask my spirit friends for a little assistance, and we'll walk into another room only to find the item in plain site. It will be right in the middle of the table, on the desk, etc. This can easily be explained by saying that we simply overlooked the item in our frenzied search. It's that old "can't see the forest for the trees" sort of thing, I suppose.

But this one might be just a bit different.

My husband drives a stick shift, so a hands-free set for his cell is a necessity, and he practically keeps it glued to his ear. Hubby was out shopping Saturday, and he, of course, had the hands-free set in use. As he was strolling through a local electronics store, he kept catching the wire from the hands-free set on items as he passed by, so he decided to take it off and place it in his pocket. When he went to retrieve it later, it was gone.

Well, of course, he just couldn't comprehend that he might have lost this important appliance, so he searched high and low for it. He searched in his truck, emptied out his pockets in front of our son, went back to the store and walked through, inquiring if it might have been turned in to one of the sales clerks, etc. According to our son, the search was quite extensive and exhausting.

We just thought it was lost.

I was doing a load of laundry, as it seems I'm always doing, and, as I moved the load from the washer into the dryer, I spied a black wire.

There it was -- in my washing machine -- Hubby's hands-free set to his cell phone!

Yeah, yeah, you're thinking the same thing I am. I just washed the pants Hubby was wearing Saturday. Only I didn't. And he says it wouldn't have mattered if I had because he searched his pants numerous times and that hands-free set just wasn't to be found.

Until now. In my washing machine.

So does this mean my washing machine is haunted?