OMG!!! All of these things have happened to me!!!!
I actually have a bobbin AWOL as I write - back in Ireland in my workroom!! I dropped it about two weeks ago and I CAN'T FIND IT ANYWHERE!!! The DH will of COURSE find it while I am away and say something smart about me not looking after my stuff!!!!!
When I was a little girl I used to lay out my dressmaking on the landing in our house - upstairs as I didn't have space in my Bedroom.
My Mother would come upstairs and remind me to remove ALL PINS from the carpet as my Father had only one leg and was in the habbit of hopping to the bathoom in the middle of the night....
The nights I would be awoken by a howl of agony as my Father 'found' the missing pin at some ungodly hour!!!!.............