Is there much worse than the first 30 minutes of searching when you think you lost your wallet? I still can't find it.
Is there much worse than the first 30 minutes of searching when you think you lost your wallet? I still can't find it.
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The beatings will continue until morale improves!
Don't worry, it will be in the last place you look.Originally posted by Tide
Wee P lost her iPod for about a week. You would have thought it was the end of the world.
"Whatever beer I'm drinking, is better than the one I'm not." DMLW
Its not in your pocket is it?
Negative.
Not this time.
"Whatever beer I'm drinking, is better than the one I'm not." DMLW
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People will miss that it once meant something to be Southern or Midwestern. It doesn't mean much now, except for the climate. The question, “Where are you from?” doesn't lead to anything odd or interesting. They live somewhere near a Gap store, and what else do you need to know? - Garrison Keillor
It is time to pray to St. Anthony, Patron Saint of Lost Things:
"St. Anthony, please look around; something is lost and must be found."
"I am very good at reading women, but I get into trouble for using the Braille method."
~ Otterpop ~
I once lost a set of keys for a week. It turned out I had set them on top of an open magazine I was reading one evening and then closed the magazine up and didn't return to it for a few days. I always keep the bare minimum on my key ring. Maybe if I were one of those folks with 8,000 keys and trinkets on their key ring, I would have noticed it quicker.
"Where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost." - 1980 Republican presidential candidate Ronald Reagan
When I was much younger - 30 yrs ago - I lost my wallet and car keys into the bay.carelessness !
Try getting a locksmith out on a sat afternoon for a car key and driving home without a license
Oddball
Why don't you knock it off with them negative waves?
Why don't you dig how beautiful it is out here?
Why don't you say something righteous and hopeful for a change?
From Kelly's Heroes (1970)
Are you sure you're not hurt ?
No. Just some parts wake up faster than others.
Broke parts take a little longer, though.
From Electric Horseman (1979)
Do you have children? Could they be the culprits? A friend’s daughter hid her dad’s wallet a few weeks ago, because she didn’t want him to go to work.
Found, I put it in a weird spot in my closet as I was hanging up my suit last night when I got home. It is a function of having kids because you aren't always paying attention to what you are doing because you are being questioned and tugged on and hounded the second you get through the door. I guess I can take down my criagslist lost/found post now.
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The beatings will continue until morale improves!
never lost my wallet until last year. It was gone for a week. I found it IN THE FREEZER BEHIND A CODFISH FILLET
I lost a set of keys at my university in SC. Apparently there was a whole in my pocket. Thankfully I was able to get a spare key cut for the car from the local Chevy dealer since it was an older model without the new fangled security devices. I think it cost about $35. A few weeks later I received an email from campus safety that was sent out to all the people named Kimberly about a set of keys. One of the doodads on my keyring said Kimberly on it. I retrieved them and then had a spare set.
The wallet, well I left my purse in a shopping cart once while at the grocery store when I put the cart in the corral. Didn't notice until I got home because I had my keys and phone in my wallet. Someone called my house in the meantime saying they found my bag and to come get it.
"He defended the cause of the poor and needy, and so all went well. Is that not what it means to know me?" Jeremiah 22:16
I used my important city keys once as a weight on fishing line which I was using to hang ghosts in our trees at Halloween. They got stuck up there somewhere. Stupid fob. Stupid tree. The methodology was sound! It should have worked! I found them up there quite by accident two years later. I was hanging ghosts again...but I was using a ladder.
"...I would never try to tick Hink off. He kinda intimidates me. He's quite butch, you know." - Maister
I’m pretty good at keeping track of these things, but my wife is TERRIBLE! She leaves them on top of the car as she drives away, at rest stops – you name it! I can't tell you how many items she has had to replace or how many phone calls we have received by some kind soul that found this or that item.
But I am not infallible. Recently we were leaving our cabin and I could not find the van keys anywhere. I started to fear they had dropped on some hike and that we would never find them (and that we would be trapped there forever) when I thought, on a lark, to look behind the bed. Sure enough, there they were, caught up in the blanket and dangling inches from the floor. Its not a codfish, but a close call nonetheless!
The purpose of life is a life of purpose
Yesterday I couldn't find my glasses when I got up in the morning. Trying to find your glasses is hard because, you know, you can't see very well. Equally frustrating is that I knew my eyeglasses were likely within the 40 square feet of the room that comprised the bed and the area immediately around them, and I still couldn't find them! I found some other stuff but not my glasses. Stripped the bed. shook everything out. Turned around and there they were lying on the floor.
My keys, my wallet, my glasses, etc. I have St. Anthony on speed dial.
"I am very good at reading women, but I get into trouble for using the Braille method."
~ Otterpop ~
I've never lost my keys or wallet. But I did lose my cell phone once a few years back. I had only had it for a few months and it disappeared somewhere between my work and home. I could never prove anything, but my theory is that I left it on my desk at work and it was pocketed by the cleaning company.
When I was at the state planning conference a few years ago, I thought I lost my wallet. I had pulled it out of my pocket as I first walked into my hotel room because I had put the room key in it. When I walked in the room and dropped my luggage, my wallet somehow ended up underneath. I searched for about 30 minutes before I found it.
"I'm very important. I have many leather-bound books and my apartment smells of rich mahogany"
So, this Bear and the usual suspects finish their game of basketball at Maumee, Ohio's Union School. We all head over to Dale's Bar, our usual. Because it is summertime outside ball we do not take showers.
My usual M.O. after outside ball is to wedge my keys and wallet between my sweaty socks and my sweaty ankle. Rolling Rock is beckoning. Walking from my truck and talking with a couple roundball mates (no doubt, bragging about the "schooling" I gave them on the court via my devasting jumper) I suddenly blurt out, "Where are my keys?" I went into panic mode, thinking perhaps I dropped them by the truck. I hurried back to the parking lot and furiously looked for my lost keys. Damn, I lived in very rural Henry County (about 25 miles from Dale's Bar).....a long hike. I was between marriages/relationships so I had nobody to call to bring me spare keys.
Panic can be a bad thing. Until your b-ball friend says this key sentence: "What's that in your hand?"
Bear
Occupy Cyburbia!
I've lost both my debit card AND my driver's license. Not at the same time, of course, but still... I eventually found both of these items...months or years after I lost them and had already gotten replacements.
I once lost my keys when going to an Aerosmith concert. It was at the United Center in December 2005. It had snowed that day and was still lightly snowing that evening. This girl that I had known really well when we were little kids went with me. After parking the car at the arena, we decided to walk to this restaurant where a bunch of other fans were meeting up before the show. After leaving the restaurant to head over to the show, I realize I've lost my keys. I return to the restaurant, ask a bunch of people if they've seen them, and frantically search where we were sitting. Then, I decide maybe they're still in the car, so we walk 10 minutes back to the car, peer in through the car window, and don't see anything. So then we return to the restaurant to look again. Then we go back to my car and I come to the determination that they just have to be in there somewhere. Luckily, the parking lot attendants at the United Center had a locksmith on hand, and he was able to get me in my car, and lo and behold, my car keys are under the driver's seat. Phew. Then we go in the venue, see the show, and have a wonderful time. But, man what an ordeal it can be when you lose something like that.
"Life's a journey, not a destination"
-Steven Tyler
Like IP I have a strange lost keys story. A couple of years ago I drove to work, parked the car in the structure, then just before I got out, I tucked the tail of my dress shirt into my pants. I then went to get the keys out of the ignition, they were not there. I said to myself "??????". So I get out of the car and start digging under the seats, between the seats, the back floor, NO KEYS!!! I looked under the car thinking they may have fell out while I was looking through the car.... NO KEYS!!! Thank God I have a Ford so I can use the combo keypad to lock and open the doors. So I lock the car and make it to the first meeting. It was in the main conference room with these open back chairs. I sit through the meeting trying to figure out how to coordinate locksmiths for the car, the house, etc. After the meeting I go back to my desk to sit down and start looking for help with the car figuring that I would need to go to the dealership as this car is new enough to have the chipped key ignition.
I sit down in my high back work chair and notice something pressing the small of my back. I had inadvertently tucked the keys into the back of my pants.
We hope for better things; it will arise from the ashes - Fr Gabriel Richard 1805
I've never lost my wallet nor a set of keys.
There, I just jinked myself.
A nuisance may be merely a right thing in the wrong place — like a pig in the parlor instead of the barnyard.
Forgot to tell ya wallet and keys don't know how to swim.When I was much younger - 30 yrs ago - I lost my wallet and car keys into the bay.
Try getting a locksmith out on a sat afternoon for a car key and driving home without a license
Oddball
Why don't you knock it off with them negative waves?
Why don't you dig how beautiful it is out here?
Why don't you say something righteous and hopeful for a change?
From Kelly's Heroes (1970)
Are you sure you're not hurt ?
No. Just some parts wake up faster than others.
Broke parts take a little longer, though.
From Electric Horseman (1979)
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