What is the sound of one glove falling?

[guillaumeb]

we are all familiar with the Zen question: what is the sound of one hand clapping.

Far more importantly in this season of fall, leading to winter, what is the sound of one glove falling?

My wife and I generally walk 2 times a day, and in our recent walks, we have seen a relatively large number of single gloves lying on the ground. Never 2 gloves, always a single glove.

Is it possible that one glove falling makes no sound? That might explain how gloves can fall out of pockets, and purses, and backpacks, and cars without anyone being aware.


Or is this incidence of single gloves a metaphor for our current political climate, where the left and the right are incapable of functioning together? And thus 2 gloves of different sided-ness cannot tolerate being in the same spot.

[GumboYaYa]

1. Clearly you are just following me around as I have a

distinct talent for losing one glove or one sock.

[guillaumeb]

3. And the falling glove never makes a sound.

An interesting thing.

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

2. Story about gloves...

Same as you my wife and I hike everyday no matter the weather, unless it’s too extreme. One year I found a PAIR of beautiful men’s leather mittens. Wore them for years. One day while I was on my own I lost one.

Crapola they weren’t made for very cold weather as we get in Michigan sometimes but handled any temp in the 30’s quite well. Went home to weep about a now useless half pair of free mittens.

About a week later while walking through the state park along the same route we saw my lost mitten hanging off a broken branch on a tree along the trail. Stiffly frozen but in good shape.

Wore them today on our hike. I still thank the unknown stranger every time I put them on.

[guillaumeb]

4. The moral of the story:

hike with your wife.

[Donkees]

8. Piet Hein: ''Losing one glove is certainly painful ... ''

“Losing one glove is certainly painful,
but nothing compared to the pain,
of losing one, throwing away the other,
and finding the first one again.”

― Piet Hein

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

12. Can't tell you how close...

That quote came true for me.

Gotta remember that one, thanks.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. I've lost so many gloves that you'd think I'd hear them falling once in awhile.

[guillaumeb]

6. My theory is that one glove falling accidentally makes no sound.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. That explains it.

[First Speaker]

9. All of the missing gloves are in my dryer...

...I've found everything else there...

[guillaumeb]

10. So your dryer is like a black hole that attracts gloves?

Another amazing discovery.

[brush]

11. Also socks, just one from a pair though.

[Donkees]

13. Mark Leigh is proud of having one of Britain's DULLEST hobbies - taking photographs of lost gloves

Mark said: 'One of the weirdest things I've seen was at New Romney beach in Kent.

'There was a grassy area by the sand with a long fence, and on every post there was a glove - it was amazing. There must've been about 30. It was like a glove graveyard, the photo has pride of place in my collection.

'I don't know who put them there or why they were there, but it was like a shrine to lost gloves.

A self-confessed 'dull' man who spends his days taking photographs of lost gloves says he is 'proud' of having one of Britain's most boring hobbies.

Mark Leigh, from Long Ditton, Surrey, began taking pictures of lost gloves around three years ago, and has since collected over 300 photos of the lonely mitts.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3964654/Mark-Leigh-spends-time-photographing-gloves.html

[guillaumeb]

14. But has he ever considerd the question?

[Donkees]

15. I would say he considers this from the perspective of mindfulness.

I am a careful person, not a loser of things myself. In fact, I don’t even wear gloves. I stick my hands in my pockets. It is a precautionary measure, even though through my hobby I have learnt that the people most likely to lose a glove are older children, about the age of 11.

I agree with him in that I tend to have an awareness of having dropped a glove.

[guillaumeb]

16. Perhaps right and left gloves cannot co-exist in the same pocket.

[Donkees]

17. Perhaps a mindful person doesn't over-stuff pockets :)

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

18. Sometimes cats steal them.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/kleptomaniac-cat-vernon-gloves-sketch-stolen-property-vernon-b-c-1.3677540

https://i.cbc.ca/1.3682319.1468677976!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_780/gloves.jpg

[guillaumeb]

19. Our cat denies ever having stolen a glove.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

20. He's lying.

[guillaumeb]

21. Our cat is black.

And innocent until caught.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

24. That's not your cat in the photo. That's his lawyer.

[guillaumeb]

23. Perhaps a cat stole his glove.

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