50 years ago, my ex-wife & my parents were following a new recipe for cooking a turkey. It had a number of spices & herbs to go in the dressing... including Mace. We set all the containers out on the table and began to mix in things in order--- until we got to Mace. No one could find it. We all took turns picking up each little bottle - to no avail. We spent maybe 10 minutes at this, and had about decided to just do without Mace. We started putting away the bottles when someone (I forget who) said "Oh..look here!" and held up the small bottle which said very clearly, **Mace**.

Now, the obvious answer is that 4 adults just missed it each time they looked. *I* prefer to believe the Mace went temporarily into the 7th dimension and would not come out until the space-time warp was reconfigured as we moved other spices off the table. Makes a better story than just pure carelessness, nicht wahr?