Help! Getting Behind the Bed!

[Griffin NoName]

No!!  The space there is miniscule  - ie. between the back board and the base.

Anyway, I can't shift the mattress !!

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

A string.   A long, long piece of string.

And a weight-- something moderately heavy, like a fishing sinker thingy, or a rock (with a hole innit) or a large metal washer (no, not a washing machine, but a flat, circular piece of metal with a hole in the middle).  Or a coin (also with a hole).

And something sticky-- perhaps, a thistle seed?  These things would stick to the hairs on my legs as a laddy... naturally, I went about during the summer clad in shorts only (cut-off jeans, naturally-- one of the original recycled things) not even shoes.    But thistle seeds would sometimes become tangled in the hairs on either my arm or my legs-- and a ^*#)#)!! to get off.  At least, I think it was thistle-- some called it a cockleburr seed.  I just called it <expletive deleted>.

Now, fasten the sticky-seed thingy to the weight, and go fishing-- the seed ought to catch on the cloth of your bag, and using the string, pull the whole up.

No sticky thingy?   Perhaps some.....(voice of James Earl Jones) duct tape

Twist or fold the sticky-side out, and afix one to the weight, and let the other "out" to catch on your pocket.

Or?

Perhaps... even a good old fashioned fish hook.  Since you're going to the hardware store for a fishing weight anyway (or washer), may as well pick up a fishing hook too.   I'd go for one of those 3 or 4 pronged ones, that has 3 or 4 actual hooks splayed about a central shaft.  Kind of like what Batman used to secure his batrope  to climb buildings with... what was it called?  Bathook?  A bat-grapple-hook?  Something like that, only in miniature.

Put the hook an inch or so below the weight to start.  If that doesn't work?  Reverse, placing the weight below the hook.  

And fish.... use a wax pencil on the headboard to indicate the section of bed you have already fished (and came up empty).  Use different colors for different approaches.  

And keep a diary.  Or journal.  Or YouTube the whole thing.  

Right?  



Edit:

An added bonus:  when you do manage to recover your cloth bag thingy?  Leave the weight innit for a counterbalance....



Edit-Edit:

And tie one end of the string to your bedpost, and the other to a safetypin affixed to your cloth bag.... for the next time it mysteriously becomes empty, and takes a dive behind the bed...

[Griffin NoName]

@ Bob

Actually I do have curtain weights so maybe no need to go to the hardware/fishing store.

But having considered all round, I think I shall wait for my bendy pick-up with claw thingy which should ariive within 2 days and see if I can get that to work, before trying any of the other methods.

[Roland Deschain]

I now fully understand your predicament. The headboard: Bane of all difficult situations. Lol @ Bob.

[Griffin NoName]

I now fully understand your predicament. The headboard: Bane of all difficult situations. Lol @ Bob.

Yes, I could have just said "Headboard". Another Senior Moment.

The thingy did not arrive today.

[Roland Deschain]

I now fully understand your predicament. The headboard: Bane of all difficult situations. Lol @ Bob.

Yes, I could have just said "Headboard". Another Senior Moment.

The thingy did not arrive today.

It's ok, I forgive you.

[Griffin NoName]

Thanks for bumping this.

The thingy arrived but needs some practice to work efficiently. The design is just a little too simplistic.

And anyway, the stuff is still blocking the side of the bed which I would have to use as the entry point, never mind that I am not too sure the thingy is long enough.

I have been much diverted by my latest essay, so this has been on the back burner.

[Roland Deschain]

it's good that it's turned up, but your essay is more important right now. You'll get your thingie back soon enough, i'm sure.

[Griffin NoName]

I need to be drastic and throw out junk stuff from beside the bed. Impossible to work up the required determination to overcome my hoarding obsession while deep in research paper mode.

[Roland Deschain]

I'll be there in 2 hours to stand there and stare at it for you. It'll soon get the message, and slink off.

[Griffin NoName]

LoL!! I might need you to stare at the contents of a few cupboards too. And, are you any good with moths?

[Griffin NoName]

I got a replacement thread-catcher from Etsy. It's not as smart as the one stuck on the floor behind the bed, but it's a little bigger. It's also failsafe, the heavy part placed on the bed head to hold it up is bigger and heavier than the other one so there's no way it is ever going to disappear down the back.

I can recommend these for the non-standard use of bed head storage. This one would hold about four remote controls for example. 

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

There you go.