Things That Get Off Track

Question from May 25:

What items do you wish you could locate via satellite tracking?

The obvious is my car keys and remote control, but the thing I’d honestly like to keep track of most is my sanity!

--BARBARA DERRY, Long Beach

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The one thing I’d really love to have a tracking device to find is . . . my mind! I lose it all the time.

--SARA BAJKOWSKI, Canoga Park

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My mind. Of all the things I have lost, it is the one thing I still am out there looking for.

--ZAK TOPOR, San Diego

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I would suggest a satellite tracking device for my wife’s keys, my missing socks, the TV remote and my kids’ library books.

--ROBERT D. STEVENSON, Highland

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For retrieval for the lost love of my life.

--DON MADDOX, Tarzana

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I’d like a satellite tracking system to locate the pen I had in my hand three seconds ago. . .

--SARA ANDERSON, Los Angeles--via Internet

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I think it would be nice if all those lost shoes that somehow seem to end up by the freeway could be matched up with their mates.

--HARRIET OTTAVIANO, Seal Beach

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Elvis!

--MALLORY REAVES and NIKOLA STUCCHI, Woodland Hills

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Keys, definitely keys, especially car keys. When you are in a hurry to get somewhere, they can never be found!

--CARRIE A. MERRIMAN, Monrovia

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My hair!!!

--WERNER HAAS, West Hollywood

Question for June 1:

The Sport Shoe in Atwater Village is also a juice bar (see story, this page). What other unusual business pairings have you seen around town?

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