I have a set of Viners Angel 18.0 cutlery. I bought it when my ex-wife and I separated in 2016.
I have six forks, six knives, six dessert spoons, six soup spoons and six teaspoons.
Or rather, I had.
Somehow, every few months one of my new table forks goes missing.
Always just one.
Where does it go?!
The fork pictured above is my third replacement in a year. £2.50 plus postage and packing—£7.00 a pop each time. I have spent an extra £21.00 since last May replacing a fork.
The journey of these forks is always the same: drawer to table; table to sink; sink to draining board; draining board to drawer; repeat.
So, where do they go?!
I have a theory that if they are not seated correctly in the cutlery tray in the drawer, when the drawer closes, one of the forks pops over the top at the rear of the drawer and drops down into no-man’s land behind the cupboard. But I have no way of checking without destroying the rear of the cupboard and I am reluctant as this is a rental property.
The mystery continues.
The new fork has joined the ranks. How long will this one last?
Update
My university friend Peter, an expert in aerial archaeology, had a genius idea: attach a strong magnet to a length of string and go ‘magnet fishing’ down the back of the drawer.
I did and discovered… TWO FORKS!
One was a table fork, the other a small corn on the cob fork.
I’m still one fork down.
