I Have No Idea....

[ladysprite]

I love digging out my coats after having not worn them for a while. There's the comfort and home-ness of putting on a favorite coat and snuggling up into its fleecy embrace, there's the respite from the cold... and there's always the fun of putting my hands into the pockets and finding out what's in there.

I don't tend to store huge amounts of stuff in my coat pockets, but there's always something. And it's usually something that I forgot, that stirs up happy memories of last fall or winter, and things I've done and adventures I've had. A favorite pair of gloves that I thought I had lost, a pendant that fell off a necklace that I had given up on finding, ticket stubs from a movie that I went to see with a friend, a card with a phone number for someone I met but never managed to follow up with.

And sometimes there's something random in there, and I have to dig around in my memory for a while before I remember, like the strawberry Starburst given to me by a friend's son that I stuffed in there to avoid eating, and never remembered to throw away.

But what I found in my pocket today doesn't fall into any of those categories. I have been racking my brain since I stuck my hands into my pockets when I went out to run errands at lunchtime today, and I still have absolutely no idea of why this was in my pocket, how it got there, or where it came from. I am at an utter loss.

And so I open it to you, O Brilliant And True Readers - give me your best answers:

How and why *did* a half-empty sparkly blue package of Satin Glide dental floss get into the pocket of my autumn jacket?

Comments

[goldenoak.livejournal.com]

Poor lil' fella ran away from the medicine cabinet of the house three doors down. Every night the cruel giantess would come and pull out some of his innards and he'd watch in helpless horror as she used them to floss her teeth.

Several Q-tips, seeing what happened to their siblings and knowing the same was in store for them, tried to come with him. Tragically, all of them perished in the escape effort when they jumped out the window that rainy night in October.

Take good care of him. He's been through a lot.

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

<3

I used to write stories like this about the contents of lunchboxes struggling to get away from the inevitable.

[evcelt.livejournal.com]

Dental floss fairy.

[gmkieran.livejournal.com]

don't you remember? The hippogriff had some ferret stuck in his teeth and of course you can't use just any ol' floss on a hippogriff, 'cause they're proud creatures, ye know. And this particular hippogriff was fond of blue and sparkly blue is the bestest of all! And when his teeth were all nice anc clean you stuck it back in your jacket pocket and never took it out. at least, that's the way I remember it. ;)

[rickvs.livejournal.com]

That's actually the Rapunzel Smurfette Dream House.

[umbran.livejournal.com]

In another 30 years, I will perfect a time machine. The old me came back in time, and planted that dental floss there. Unfortunately, I could not tell my younger self why, as this would cause a temporal paradox.

While this would not end the universe or anything, temporal paradox apparently causes a nasty rash, and the future world is in the midst of a horrible hyrdocortisone shortage, and it seems my elder self really hates being itchy.

[dornbeast.livejournal.com]

Did some of your fae clients catch up with you again? I've heard there's been an upswing in Sidhe-blessed dental floss as currency. It's only third-hand rumors, though, so I haven't put much stock in the claims.

[dornbeast.livejournal.com]

On a more serious note: Does your dentist hand out this size of dental floss after a visit? That would at least explain the floss, although it leaves the question of why it's partly used unanswered.

[jducoeur]

Emergency LARP costume thread?