Except that it is at this point that Solondz seems to mislay his glasses and lose his focus.
What it happens to clarify is that people are liable to mislay their hearts as easily as their wallets, and — just in case you are tempted to construe such a loss as romantic — that both can be swiftly retrieved.
After Fourth Estate managed to mislay most of the first printing in its warehouse, it was a miracle the book even reached its hungry public.
The list goes on, though each wearer will have their own favourites, like the wrist-based boarding pass that's hard to mislay or the tap on the skin to let you know it's about to rain.
Then there's the failure of Oprah's Big Give, a prime-time philanthropy show that was launched with huge fanfare before Christmas, only to mislay nearly a third of its audience during an eight-week run.
So it raised eyebrows when this week the two nations politely disagreed over whether Mr. Gilani had given the Chinese a gift that would be hard to mislay: an entire naval base, right at the mouth of the Persian Gulf.
When Mrs. Ayres starts to become forgetful, she tells Caroline and Betty of her great-aunt Dodo: "She used to mislay her things so often, one of her sons gave her a little Indian monkey.
The Hebridean haar might seem a good place to mislay notions of authorship and the rougher edges of modernity, but Moontide can be self-conscious and even tricksy about its literary side, too.
Anyone who has ever lost a cell phone, personal digital organizer or a laptop knows how it feels to mislay a device that may contain critical personal or professional information.
She has managed to mislay her ministerial judgment on too many issues of late, most recently in her proposal for expelling foreign students once they complete their courses, a daft idea whose effect would be to further deter the overseas students on whom UK universities often depend and from whose expertise this country's economy can benefit.
The experience of most British racecourses in recent years is that simply labelling one afternoon as "Ladies' Day" seems to add at least 5,000 to the gate almost automatically, so a 10,000 drop at the original – and most famous – Ladies' Day is a lot of spectators to mislay in one go.
