84 Small Mysteries That People Have Just Accepted That They’ll Never Be Able To Solve

Why do we think we are too tired to take a shower and feel lazy for it, only once we are under the shower it's the best feeling possible?

_Maxine_Vandate_:

We are not avoiding the shower, we are avoiding a transition. Change is stressful. Inertia makes one want to stay doing what they are doing, not switch to something else. Especially for NDs. 

Where the portal my cat always uses is located. I can spend forever looking around the house for him and he’s nowhere to be found. Only for me to turn around and he’s sitting behind me.

ADHDFeeshie:

I'm positive one of my cats has invisibility powers because of this same behavior. She's named after a character who can turn invisible and I guess the universe just wanted her to get the full experience.

Where are all my hair clips going? I live alone, I only have one set of hair... why are most of them missing?

DiejenEne:

They are here, at my house! I keep finding them EVERYWHERE! My wife can't be losing SO MANY of them.

no_id_never:

The are hanging out with the single socks that went missing in the dryer.

Why I’m here. I’m not particularly great at anything but I’m good at a lot of stuff. I’m well educated, I’m nice, I have lots of friends but like…I feel no purpose. Nothing feels meaningful but I wake up and do it all again.

trullaDE:

It can be freeing to accept that most lives don't have meaning and purpose, and also really don't need them. In 100 years, pretty much everyone right now on this planet will be [gone], and chances are, every memory of you with it. And 100 years are just a tiny blip in the overall timescape on this planet. So just enjoy the time you've got, have fun and love and friendship where you can get it, but don't worry too much about anything else.

I have purchased 600 hair ties over the last two years. I currently have 4. I do not know where about half of them got lost.

BudgetShake1500:

That is why they sell them in packs of 50.

Around age 7, my uncle visited almost every weekend and brought a small gift. One week was a matchbox Lamborghini. Red and green.

I took it from the box and rolled it exactly once. It went under the couch and we all heard it hit the baseboard. I moved the couch. It wasn't there. There was nothing under behind or near for it to get lost behind. Flipped the couch. No joy. Looked everywhere. We all did. For an hour. Moved cushions. Mom was late for work, we were so weirded out.

The next year they replaced the couch and we took the chance to tear the whole thing apart, even breaking the frame until it was no longer recognizable as a couch. Never found it.

30 years later I went on eBay and bought another one, so I could feel square with the universe.

Exactly one really long thick hair keeps growing in the same spot on my chin and nowhere else. I'm female.

MissMormie:

With age testosterone increases for woman, that can cause beard hairs to grow. I used to have one when i was thirty, probably 10 by mid fourties, looking at my mom i might get a full beard by the time I'm 70 /:

LittleGreyLambie:

I have an eyelash hair that grew to be 2.5" long before I noticed it. Getting old is kinda interesting.

There's a little animal that lives out on my terrace that chirps at night. I've never seen it, and if I look for it, it stops chirping. It doesn't sound like a cricket or a grasshopper. It's a pleasant little high-pitched chirp. I think it's a bat but I'm not sure. I don't mind anymore. I just enjoy the sound.

OutlookForThursday:

LIZARD. LIZARD. LIZARD.
Gecko probably. Turn on a terrace light at night and look for it hunting moths.

I lost some keys in 1994. I used them to open the front door when I came home. I set them on a counter. They disappeared forever. I thought I would find them when I moved, but they never re-materialized.

Why the [hell] am I always exhausted to the point I have no motivation to do ANYTHING.

Ok_Kiwi_4066:

Vitamin D deficiency.

How a ‘quick shower’ becomes a 40‑minute existential crisis with no memory of what happened in the middle. Some mysteries aren’t meant to be solved.

The truth behind why there are so many mattress stores. For me specifically, there's this one mattress store that has been in business for decades, despite so many other stores in that same shopping center going out of business.

Something is going on with that store. There's no way it should've stayed in business during COVID. But it's still there. I think it's a front for money laundering or some other crime. But I've just accepted I'll never know the truth.

Right-Yam-5826:

Very low overhead costs, few staff & high value stock with high profit margins and longevity. They only need to make a few sales a month to stay open.
When you've got a street full of vape shops and nothing else, and the owner of several has opened 2 nightclubs that are never open on the weekends? That's something suspicious..

I’ll put something down in a place that makes perfect sense at the time. Not absent minded…. Fully intentional. Then later, when I need it, that place feels completely foreign…. Like I can remember the decision, just not the logic behind it.

The object turns up eventually, always somewhere reasonable. That’s the unsettling part. Past me wasn’t careless. Past me was operating under a rule set current me no longer has access to.

So I search…..annoyed, until I find it and move on without interrogating the version of me who clearly knew something I didn’t bother to write down.

Same [thing] use to happen while setting up a password earlier now password managers come in handy.

irthdaycheesecake9:

I have ADHD and I am very liberal with the “find my phone” function on my FitBit. One time I left my phone in the linen closet. No memory of putting it there but there it is, after an hour of frantically looking for it.

Is MY red the same as YOUR red.

GenXSkully:

Likely, no- source; colorblind husband.

rpbm:

Yep. I keep trying to explain how awful a particular green is, and realize he can’t comprehend it. All green is brown to him. So he doesn’t get baby poop green vs neon green.

My toaster disappeared a few years ago. I live alone. A whole toaster.

I kept it in my cabinet because I dont have a lot of counter space, used it pretty frequently.... one day i opened my cabinet and it was just gone.

AdDear528:

I swear I had a baking sheet disappear. I also live alone.

My friend knocked a full pint glass off a windowsill and it landed perfectly on concrete. It did a full 360 and caught all of the liquid. We all just stared at eachother.

Three years ago, when I got the flu, I started having weird feelings in my left ring finger. Like electricity is moving there. Not like it's an electric shock, more like an electric wave. Since then it happens several times a month. Only this specific finger. Asked a doctor and he said he didn't know but it was not a real issue.

I guess I will never know. But I want to believe I'm becoming some kind of X-Men. In a few years I might be able to light a bulb with my left hand.

AffectionateExcuse5:

Might be neuropathy? Apparently if you lean on your elbow too much it can cause weird sensations in your ring or pinky finger. When my mom's sciatica acts up, she gets weird tingling in one single toe, always the same toe.
In my heart though, you're a mutant.

What happened to my birth parents. I was born a girl in China in the 1990s during the One Child Policy. Got adopted and brought back to America. Of course, I could go back to village one day but I highly doubt I will find my birth parents. I’m not upset at them, I completely understand why they had to abandon me.

The fact that my mom can instantly find something I've been searching for hours in a place I already looked multiple times.

How clutter appears even after I just cleaned.