Strat from an Eston electric guitar body.

[wazkelly]

Who knows as a quick google search suggests AD 1265 was when first guitar may have been built.

[Dedman]

wish I learned left handed, my left hand suffers from Ducatiharleyclutchitus and is less dexterous than the right LOL

[DrNomis_44]

I too suffer from annoying small item dropped on the floor syndrome. I now start searching 'at a distance that it possibly couldn't have bounced to' and work my way in. Often saves a lot of time.

That reminds me of something generally known as "Murphy's Law", which states "That which can go wrong, will", apparently there are a lot of corollarys, which are related to Murphy's Law, there's one that states "A dropped object will gravitate to where it can do the most damage", there's another one that states "If N number of stocked items are needed, there will be N-1 items actually in stock", from what I have read online, there have been some university studies of Murphy's Law.

[Simon Barden]

I think it's simply quantum level uncertainties manifesting themselves in real-world situations.

[DrNomis_44]

I think it's simply quantum level uncertainties manifesting themselves in real-world situations.

And the thing about quantum-level uncertainties is that the moment we try to observe them, we change them as per Quantum Physics, hence the uncertainty-factor.

[Simon Barden]

And until we observe them, everything is possible.

[Simon Barden]

So if you didn't see it fall, it could have ended up anywhere. Guitar picks are most prone to this. I should be walking on a 2" thick layer of lost guitar picks, but I'm not.

[DrNomis_44]

Yep, and with Quantum Physics, there's an infinite number of possibilities, what's really interesting about something that falls onto the floor, after being dropped, is that it can go in any direction within a full 360 degrees, and it will always choose the direction you least expect it to go, and it doesn't just fall to the floor, it also bounces as it travels in the direction least expected, and for some reason the dropped object seems to like going in the direction which guarantees that it will end up under something, making you think that you're suffering from selective blindness.

Here's another phenomenon I tend to encounter a lot, you go to look for something that you were using either the day before, or a few minutes ago, you spend anything from a few minutes, up to an hour looking for it, only to end up giving up, but just before you give-up, you find something else totally unrelated to what you're looking for, and then remember that you were looking for whatever it is you found only a week ago, that has happened to me quite a few times in the past.

Another one is where you're trying to remember the name of something, or someone, and you know that it's on the tip of your tongue, but you just can't seem to remember, the following day, you will be doing something completely random, and you will suddenly remember the name you were trying to remember the day before, have had that happen to me lots of times.