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Poll: worst things you've lost
Last night, we went out after church to our regular restaurant. One of my friends asked for lotion, so I went through my bag which is pretty big and deep to look for it. I pulled out some things as the lotion bottle wasn't that big. I pulled out my notepad portfolio and put it on a stack of menus left on the table.
This morning, I went to get something out of my bag, and noticed I didn't have my portfolio in my bag. Instant freak out mode broke out. I had my W-2 in there, along with some other personal items.
I sent a text to the few friends sitting at the table, and luckily one of them had picked it up for me. Total relief flooded through me. I don't lose things often, but that could have been bad.
So, what is the worst thing you've lost?
Do you lose things often?
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Re: Poll: worst things you've lost
My Gramps wedding band. After my Gramps died, my Gram had it melted into a heart shaped pendant and put on a chain for a necklace - and she gave it to me right before she died.
I went to put it on one day and it wasn't where I remembered leaving it. I was devistated. I went through EVERYTHING searching for it...I tore apart my parents house. I called Doug hysterically crying. He came over to help me look for it...while I was searching the laundry room, he was in my bedroom searching and he found it. I had placed it on my desk - and after tossing other things on my desk it started to fall off and got caught between the desk and the wall.
Here's the necklace. I had it in my wedding bouquet:
Woah! Good thing you got it back. That's really stressful to lose something with so much important information in it.
As far as something being lost, the worst thing I think was my cat Bear, but he more ran away. It was a crazy story, we lost him after he jumped out of the car while we were at a gas station about 20 minutes from where we live now (but we were living in Baltimore at the time, about 300 miles away). We searched for hours and told the gasstation attendant as well as surrounding neighbors what he looked like and our numbers in case they found him. He was only about 9 months old and I was devistated. We had to work the next day so we had to drive home. I cried every night for a week (it was right after thanksgiving so it was really cold outside). We got a phone call from one of the neighbors we talked to because she thought she saw him. We drove down and sat outside for hours, but he never showe d up so we had to head home again, Bear-less. Two more weeks past and I couldn't stand the house being empty so we rescued Tippy from the SPCA. The next week the neighbor called again said that the cat ran into her house, and we sped down again to see if it was really him. Now, I know a cat is a cat, but I know my Bear and this was totally him. He did the same silly things with his water dish (stuck his paw in it while he drank). And he was the right age and everything so we knew it ws him. We took him home and we've kept a much closer eye on him since.
Wow that got long, but no I normally don't lose things. I tend to have a place for everything and keep them there.
when i was 9 my mother let me wear her shamrock pendant that was given to her by her father's adoptive mother. she got it in ireland and it was yellow gold with the shamrock being made out of genuine emeralds.
when i was younger i didnt really have any friends for lots of reasons. so i had one friend in my class and she was kind of...not from the best place. she had never worn anything so pretty so she asked me if she could see it. i took it off and let her hold it. this was right before we were leaving school for the day and in the rush of everything i didnt get it back from her.
i was distraught over it all night. i cried and cried because i thought my mom would be mad. the next day, the girl said she lost it. as it turns out, her mother sold it for drug money and we never got it back.
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I am the most unorganized person on the planet. Hell, I would probably misplace Layla if she didn't bark so much!
I usually lose my car keys at least twice a week, same with my bank card, mail, work badge...etc.
The worst was when I lost both our wedding bands during the move into the apartment before the wedding. We searched every box for weeks only to find that I had it in the drawer of my nightstand.
Aww, Emily, I would've lost my mind if I'd "lost" one of my cats like that. Or my dog. Glad you got Bear back!
Like Meghan, I lost my purse about 5 years ago before I was about to get on a plane. (Ok, I was drunk the night before and lost it at a bar, apparently.) It had my wallet with ID, credit card, everything. Amazingly, I was still allowed to board the plane without any ID (after much searching and looking up my info to make sure I wasn't someone with an agenda), and a week later, I received a package at work that included my purse, wallet, everything. I had canceled my cards immediately, so I never had any problems there and so far have never had identity theft... I never did find out how the sender found my work address though, which is creepy.
I also lost the first piece of jewelry H ever gave me: my first Christmas gift from him. It was a single green sapphire on a silver chain. He said it "matched my eyes" and I thought it was so sweet. I lost it about 5 months later, at the gym, I think and have never seen it since. It makes me sad--I'd still wear it if I had it.
The most traumatizing loss I've had was when I was 4, I wore my favorite necklace (a nylon cord with a plastic owl pendant, I loved it) to nursery school, for some reason I took it off and hung it with my coat in my cubby, and I left it there when I went home. I never saw it again
Recently I lost my cowboy boots that I got when I went to Nashville with friends, there's a cowboy boot store that's buy 1 get 2 free, and there were 3 of us so we each got a pair. I lost them soon after we moved in to our current house, but I found them a couple months ago
They were in the box of Halloween decorations in the attic.
I lost a garnet, peridot and sterling silver earring a few years ago, it was a pair I'd been eyeing for months and I wore them often. I lost it while shopping, that pair tended to fall out. I still have the lone earring on my earring rack, and I may just buy another pair, they're still available online.
My grandma lost a 2 carat diamond ring that was her aunt's. She has this dumb habit of wrapping things in kleenex and putting them in her purse, but we were at the beach and her purse was upstairs, so she put the ring in the wadded up kleenex on a table before she went to walk on the beach. We didn't know it was missing until days later, she was sure it'd turn up when she got home and unpacked. My mom is still traumatized by that loss.
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