I thought this might be the best forum to find people with techy knowledge. I'm still convinced there just must be a logical answer to what happened to me today, and I really hope there is, because it is freaking me out.
It will sound completely bonkers if I describe it.
A few weeks ago, I bought a pair of headphones from the desk at the gym, to use in the handsets on the machines. (They say Yoga CD4 on them ... I assume that's the make). When I first opened the packaging, the flex was wound round several times in an 'o' shape, about the diameter of a golf ball, and secured with a mini one of those twisty things like you use to close up freezer bags. (Forgive me so much boring detail, but it is necessary).
The flex was so long that I decided not to bother undoing this loop, but keep it that way unless I needed them for something else. Even with the majority of the length looped up like that, there was more than enough length to use for the handsets. The flex loop fitted conveniently over the handle of the cross-trainer, even when the handle was at its furthest away. I have used them like this ever since without any problems - I estimate about 10 times. I've never undone the loop.
Today, when I pulled them out of my tracksuit pocket (same pocket I always keep them in) the loop had gone, and the entire flex was only just long enough to use without the phones coming out of my ears. In other words, they seem to have mysteriously lost, I estimate up to 2 feet in length, since I last put them away. They are now visibly too short to be useful in many situations. And No loop of spare flex.
I just cannot work out what has happened. I showed them to the woman on the desk, who immediately said 'oh, that's strange' - I was relieved it wasn't just me who thought that, although she started pulling at the junction where the two ear-flexes merge into the main flex, and looking at me as if she thought I must have done something to them. But I haven't.
I was so baffled I was going to buy another pair, but they didn't have any left.
On the surface this is quite a mundane problem, maybe, but it happened this morning, and I've been thinking about it all day. I just wish I could think of a single explanation. Does anyone know what's going on here?
It will sound completely bonkers if I describe it.
A few weeks ago, I bought a pair of headphones from the desk at the gym, to use in the handsets on the machines. (They say Yoga CD4 on them ... I assume that's the make). When I first opened the packaging, the flex was wound round several times in an 'o' shape, about the diameter of a golf ball, and secured with a mini one of those twisty things like you use to close up freezer bags. (Forgive me so much boring detail, but it is necessary).
The flex was so long that I decided not to bother undoing this loop, but keep it that way unless I needed them for something else. Even with the majority of the length looped up like that, there was more than enough length to use for the handsets. The flex loop fitted conveniently over the handle of the cross-trainer, even when the handle was at its furthest away. I have used them like this ever since without any problems - I estimate about 10 times. I've never undone the loop.
Today, when I pulled them out of my tracksuit pocket (same pocket I always keep them in) the loop had gone, and the entire flex was only just long enough to use without the phones coming out of my ears. In other words, they seem to have mysteriously lost, I estimate up to 2 feet in length, since I last put them away. They are now visibly too short to be useful in many situations. And No loop of spare flex.
I just cannot work out what has happened. I showed them to the woman on the desk, who immediately said 'oh, that's strange' - I was relieved it wasn't just me who thought that, although she started pulling at the junction where the two ear-flexes merge into the main flex, and looking at me as if she thought I must have done something to them. But I haven't.
I was so baffled I was going to buy another pair, but they didn't have any left.
On the surface this is quite a mundane problem, maybe, but it happened this morning, and I've been thinking about it all day. I just wish I could think of a single explanation. Does anyone know what's going on here?
