the incredible disappearing orange roughy

[anotheranon]

D. and I just spent half an hour turning the refrigerator and my car upside down trying to find the fish I was going to use to try out a ceviche recipe.

It was the most expensive item on the grocery reciept, so of course it has vanished at just the moment I was planning to start the marinade :P

The grocery did charge me for it so it must have gone missing somewhere between the checkout and the car. The only thing I can be certain of is that if it did make it into the house, it is certainly no good for cooking after 24 hours in the open somewhere. Also (semi) comforted by the fact that if by some miracle it made it inside we'll find it by scent in short order (eww!) :/

I'm going to replace it but that's really annoying - I thought I was going crazy! "I know I brought it into the house...." Seems to happen a lot more lately. Is this what they call a "senior moment" (or at least a "no longer young and sharp as a tack" moment?)

Comments

[jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com]

Have you considered body cavity searches of the cats? ;-)

[hadesgirl.livejournal.com]

I agree with JLS - a feline interrogation is in order. That's too suspicious to be a coincidence. Multiple scenes from "Get Fuzzy" spring to mind, LOL!

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

Upon querying, the cats invoked plausible deniability (this IS DC, after all!) and looked around nervously (seriously - I don't think they got it because there would be shreds of paper everywhere)!

Still, they have been known to get on counters where they don't belong, so you did have a good suggestion there, both of you!

[hadesgirl.livejournal.com]

Ack - plausible deniability. This is sounding more and more like an X-Files episode. Your cats aren't named Mulder and Scully are they?

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

Well, given the absence of fish-scented paper around, the cats could neither confirm - nor deny - that they ate the fish. Certainly they would try, had there been any fish to steal, because.. well, they're cats. However, only bad cats steal, and they are not bad cats. Ever :P

This is the District of Chaos. Everything is plausibly deniable lacking hard evidence (and sometimes, even with evidence!) :P

[hadesgirl.livejournal.com]

ESPECIALLY with evidence!

[jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com]

Since you managed to get a replacement with no problem, likely means the store staff remember a customer leaving a fish behind yesterday. ;-)

My apologies to the fuzzies for making false accusation against them (although I have known of family pets who ate the paper too, 'cause it was flavoured by the contents) =O

[curiousangel.livejournal.com]

Speaking as a former grocery-store manager... it's entirely possible that the checker tried to put it in a separate bag (they often do, with seafood), and that bag just didn't make it out with you. You might bring back your receipt, and see if they'll supply you with a replacement. That sort of thing happens more often than you might think.

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

I did take my reciept in, and they did replace it for me, which was awfully kind of them :)