Where did it go?

I used to have a labmate who what notorious for sneaking things away from my space when I wasn't looking. stir rods, flasks, chemicals, especially spatulas. They would disappear into some void and reappear only in his sink, covered in some weird waxy gunk a week later. Who knows what horrors they might have encountered on their way to the sink.

This fortune I got yesterday at lunch made me think of him and all I could do was laugh because of the connotation of "solution" in chemistry. I'll be on the lookout for my solvent bottles, Bruce.