X-files

[Gaspasser]

Ok. I need scientifically minded folks to help with this one. Just cleaning out my car for the annual state required safety inspection. Don't want to embarrass myself with the usual pile of crap, junk, tools, dirty work clothes, etc. that typically accumulate during the year. Resembles a frat house.

Anyway, found six leather work gloves. 1 left and 5 rights. Can anyone explain this phenomenon? I have a few working theories:

1)Theft by one-armed bandit.

2) A disturbance in the space-time continuum causing a wormhole to another dimension.

3) My wife breaking into my car to push me over the edge to get me admitted to an insane asylum.

All alternative theories welcome.

 

[NorthwoodsLife]

Gloves: I usually end up with all lefties or all righties when I really need them. Because I have dogs. Dogs love gloves, because they smell like me and they love me. They tear them to little bits, and sometimes eat them. So I buy gloves regularly when on sale and keep them out my pooches theft range.

Anyway...

You have an annual state safety inspection. Really? Is that real in America? It's gone that far? Without Probable Cause they search inside your car so you can register it for the next year?

Note to self, don't live in NH.

Be well. Tractor on.

Eric

 

[Hugo Habicht]

Definitely 2)
If you follow the singularity in the space-time continuum you will also find the missing odd socks.

Or:
4) somebody with two left hands nicked 2 pairs.

 

[Gaspasser]

Gloves: I usually end up with all lefties or all righties when I really need them. Because I have dogs. Dogs love gloves, because they smell like me and they love me. They tear them to little bits, and sometimes eat them. So I buy gloves regularly when on sale and keep them out my pooches theft range.

Anyway...

You have an annual state safety inspection. Really? Is that real in America? It's gone that far? Without a warrant they search inside your car so can register it for the next year?

Note to self, don't live in NH.

Be well. Tractor on.

Eric

Yep. The Live Free or Die state. But we have no state sales tax, no income tax, and car insurance is not mandatory. No helmet law. Liberal concealed and open carry laws. Actually, I don't really mind the inspections. Vehicles take a beating in winter and on our many dirt roads. So glad to have the opportunity to keep things safe.

 

[Bee-Positive]

I'll play

Guess #1 - You're left handed. Take left glove off to do something and never pick it up.

Guess #2 - You keep your keys in your left pocket, take left glove off to move car and it falls out the door or is misplaced.

Guess #3 - They're in the same place socks end up after washing and drying never to be seen again (X-files).

Guess #4 - Immediately after you buy a 100 pack of new gloves because you're miffed about it you find the other 4 righties and remember "yup - just where you left them" (this is usually me).

 

[Sawdust&Shavings]

Ok. I need scientifically minded folks to help with this one. Just cleaning out my car for the annual state required safety inspection. Don't want to embarrass myself with the usual pile of crap, junk, tools, dirty work clothes, etc. that typically accumulate during the year. Resembles a frat house.

Anyway, found six leather work gloves. 1 left and 5 rights. Can anyone explain this phenomenon? I have a few working theories:

1)Theft by one-armed bandit.

2) A disturbance in the space-time continuum causing a wormhole to another dimension.

3) My wife breaking into my car to push me over the edge to get me admitted to an insane asylum.

All alternative theories welcome.

You’ll find the missing gloves next to your 10mm socket.

 

[Gaspasser]

You’ll find the missing gloves next to your 10mm socket.

Wow. You have psychic powers!
But when I can't find my 10 mm socket I just use the 5mm twice.

 

[Lil Foot]

I am right handed, and I wear out RH work gloves at about 4 times the rate of LH gloves, and I have trouble throwing out a perfectly usable glove, so I always end up with a surplus of lefts.

 

[Gary Olson]

The dirt pattern is the key. The left glove has a parity matching glove on the right. The other rights have very difficult applied dirt patterns to build parity on a left glove. The left gloves are getting the dirt parity correct in the dirt dimension.

 

[skeets]

The truth is out there !

 

[NCL4701]

The left gloves are designed to disintegrate after a short time so you’ll be forced to buy more gloves. The rights don’t have that feature to trick you into thinking you lost them so no one catches on. It’s a conspiracy to fatten the coffers of billionaire glove company owners on the backs of working people.

To further ensure no one uncovers their skulduggery, their media minions make sure the liberals blame the conservatives and the conservatives blame the liberals while the Skull and Bones Club smokes fat cigars and sips bourbon with the Illuminati, laughing their butts as they wear the non-disintegrating gloves reserved solely for their privileged mitts.

Could be you’re not great at keeping up with your gloves and tossing the pair when the first one wears out. That seems pretty fantastical, though. I’d lean toward the billionaire boys club conspiracy theory.

 

[The Evil Twin]

You’ll find the missing gloves next to your 10mm socket.

And the other sock.

 

[Gaspasser]

The left gloves are designed to disintegrate after a short time so you’ll be forced to buy more gloves. The rights don’t have that feature to trick you into thinking you lost them so no one catches on. It’s a conspiracy to fatten the coffers of billionaire glove company owners on the backs of working people.

To further ensure no one uncovers their skulduggery, their media minions make sure the liberals blame the conservatives and the conservatives blame the liberals while the Skull and Bones Club smokes fat cigars and sips bourbon with the Illuminati, laughing their butts as they wear the non-disintegrating gloves reserved solely for their privileged mitts.

Could be you’re not great at keeping up with your gloves and tossing the pair when the first one wears out. That seems pretty fantastical, though. I’d lean toward the billionaire boys club conspiracy theory.

NCL. I am very worried about you. LOL.

 

[NCL4701]

Slightly more serious answer…

Quite a few years ago I noted I almost always wear out the left glove before the right. This is true only in work gloves (not true for hunting gloves, gloves for general warmth, etc. ) and did not appear to vary with material type (goat skin, deer hide, cowhide, synthetic, etc.). I find these sorts of patterns interesting and therefore worthy of some thought. I hypothesized there was something in my behavior causing this so I started paying attention to right v left work glove usage.

I’m right hand dominant. When working on stuff in general, I found it common that the skill part of the job was tasked to the right hand. Holding the thing being worked on, bracing myself while in, under, or upon some large thing being worked on; those duties commonly fell to the left hand.

So, my left hand was more likely than the right to be handling something that was sharp, hot, cold, splintery, or otherwise unpleasant. My right hand was more likely than the left to be wielding some tool requiring manual dexterity and designed to be held with an adult human hand: drill, hammer, saw, chisel, wrench, etc. My right hand was more often than the left either ungloved or subjecting the glove to much less severe duty.

I created an additional issue by tossing the worn out left glove and keeping the right (never know when you might lose or damage a right and need a new mate for a perfectly good left even though it never happened). Result was an overstock of right gloves. For the past several years, when the left glove wears out, I throw away its matching right as well.

That’s my actual experience with uneven work glove wear.

 

[Scm]

Yep. The Live Free or Die state. But we have no state sales tax, no income tax, and car insurance is not mandatory. No helmet law. Liberal concealed and open carry laws. Actually, I don't really mind the inspections. Vehicles take a beating in winter and on our many dirt roads. So glad to have the opportunity to keep things safe.

I moved from MA to NH for those and more reasons (free state project), thinking i was "freer". We moved to MO and I learned some law, and found out NH is not really much more different than MA. (constitutional carry is nice, but not required) In MO we have ZERO building AND zoning codes, No historical commission, no conservation commission, no planning commission, no land use coordinator, No dog licenses, NO junk/solar/noise/lighting/trash ordinances and some of the nicest people I've ever lived among. Our property taxes ($6300;2023) on our previous house in NH (2.7 acres) went UP (+$700;2024) MORE than what we pay here for 20 acres ($620). NH as minimum building standards that they can use to remove you from your home, I seen them try this.

BTW, My cars in NH were "safe" as long as I went to someone I knew.

 

[Russell King]

Anyway...

You have an annual state safety inspection. Really? Is that real in America? It's gone that far? Without Probable Cause they search inside your car so you can register it for the next year?

Note to self, don't live in NH.

The safety inspection (in Texas) is of the car not the contents of the car. But the post by @Gaspasser says that he is cleaning out his car (to avoid “personal embarrassment” and not annoy the inspector and possibly fail the inspection for minor things.)

In Texas they look at things like brakes, lights, tires and other things that can affect safety. Texas has done that for decades. They added emissions testing also some years ago. This year they are doing away with the safety inspection and only doing the emissions test (and the emissions test is only required in some counties).

 

[Gaspasser]

The safety inspection (in Texas) is of the car not the contents of the car. But the post by @Gaspasser says that he is cleaning out his car (to avoid “personal embarrassment” and not annoy the inspector and possibly fail the inspection for minor things.)

In Texas they look at things like brakes, lights, tires and other things that can affect safety. Texas has done that for decades. They added emissions testing also some years ago. This year they are doing away with the safety inspection and only doing the emissions test (and the emissions test is only required in some counties).

Yep, they check the mechanical function of the car as you say. I cleaned it up so i wouldn't appear to be a slob. At least temporarily, LOL.

 

[Gaspasser]

I moved from MA to NH for those and more reasons (free state project), thinking i was "freer". We moved to MO and I learned some law, and found out NH is not really much more different than MA. (constitutional carry is nice, but not required) In MO we have ZERO building AND zoning codes, No historical commission, no conservation commission, no planning commission, no land use coordinator, No dog licenses, NO junk/solar/noise/lighting/trash ordinances and some of the nicest people I've ever lived among. Our property taxes ($6300;2023) on our previous house in NH (2.7 acres) went UP (+$700;2024) MORE than what we pay here for 20 acres ($620). NH as minimum building standards that they can use to remove you from your home, I seen them try this.

BTW, My cars in NH were "safe" as long as I went to someone I knew.

Yep, you are right. Still have plenty of regulations and red tape. Perhaps just a little less than surrounding states.

 

[Runs With Scissors]

I have the exact same problem.

I vote for the "space-time continuum" theory......(mostly cause it sounds cool)




https://www.orangetractortalks.com/forums/threads/who-keeps-taking-my-f-king-left-glove.63643/


EDIT: And for the record, I am afraid to clean out my truck, for fear of finding someone/something living in it.

 

[Gary Olson]

In MO we have ZERO building....

Not quite correct. I went looking to keep some contractors honest. Most counties have no county codes; but follow Missouri State building codes. Missouri follows ASTM blah blah blah codes.
That being said, out here no one pulls out a bureaucrat for every little bit of work; or lack thereof.

...AND zoning codes,

Around here is a minimum 25 acre zone per residence/farm. Might be because this is the Mark Twain Forest area and they don't want apartments and 7-11s.

No historical commission, no conservation commission, no planning commission, no land use coordinator, No dog licenses, NO junk/solar/noise/lighting/trash ordinances and some of the nicest people I've ever lived among.