Something lost then found
By maximax8
@maximax8 (31047)
United Kingdom
November 14, 2011 9:53am CST
Have you ever lost something then found it again. I walked to my disabled son's school and my daughter had her doll in the pocket in my son's wheelchair. When he went into class I put her doll in her backpack. On our way back home we lost her doll. I had a handy man coming around so therefore I had to rush off home. Amazingly walking back to school I found a lady and little daughter that had found my daughter's doll. She said it was at grand dad's house and told me his address. We went around to that house and my daughter got her doll back.
The handy man was drilling in the lounge wall to put up some shelves. I went into my disabled son's bedroom to put some things away. Amazingly under a box I found my son's toy fire engine that he had lost weeks ago. As soon as he came home from school I gave it to him and now he is very happy.
Have you ever lost something and then found it later?
Did you lose something and still haven't found it?
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10 responses
@sacmom (14192)
• United States
16 Nov 11
Yes, I've lost a few things before. Some I found...others I never recovered. For instance when I was little I lost a little stuffed animal. I'm pretty sure it was somewhere in the schoolyard where I went to school, but I never did recover it.
Another instance was when my husband and I were running his R/C boat at the lake some years ago. We ended up losing the hatch in the water. As it was summertime (I think) the water was high and we couldn't retrieve the hatch. My husband knew he'd be able to get it back if we waited it out a few months after the water went down. So that's what we did. Sure enough we were able to get it back.
My most recent incident was just last night. I lost my driver's license and ATM card. Oh my gosh, was I frantic! That was the last thing I wanted to lose (well besides my kids, that is). My husband and I looked just about everywhere in the house. I even looked in the car and outside around the car, the whole time trying to retrace my steps. I was pretty sure I had it when I took my oldest up to Wal-Mart, so I gave up my search at home and drove back there...
I went back to where I had parked. Fortunately during the time I went with my son no one was parking in this section of the parking lot anymore. And there they were, both of them right on the ground in the parking lot. Apparently they had fallen out of my pocket when I had gotten out of the car. Boy, was I relieved! I'm so glad I went back, otherwise I would have lost them for sure.
One thing's for certain. I'm never going to put them in my pocket again!
Happy mylotting!
@davaome (1826)
• Philippines
1 Dec 11
about a month ago, I lost my passbook i tried looking everywhere for it. We we're at an outing at the beach and i remember i brought my passbook with me, i was drunk and wasted for days, and when we went home and back to the city, i remembered i brought my passbook with me but didn't remember where did i put it. looked everywhere for it but was at a lose. I even had an assumption that someone stole my passbook while we were at the beach. then, after a month later, I was looking for my wallet, and instead i found my passbook inside of the bag that i used during the beach outing. it was inserted in one of my unused shorts.
funny that if your looking for it, you don't find it, but if your looking for a different thing, you end up finding things you were looking for before, but end up not finding the thing your suppose to be looking for at the moment.
@youless (112358)
• Guangzhou, China
15 Nov 11
This often happens to me. It is very frustrating as it seems I completely lose the memory where the thing I am looking for. Now I learn a lesson. If I can't find something I want currently, I will wait for some time and it is very amazing it will appear at the end:) This is already my experience.
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@youless (112358)
• Guangzhou, China
15 Nov 11
This often happens to me. It is very frustrating as it seems I completely lose the memory where the thing I am looking for. Now I learn a lesson. If I can't find something I want currently, I will wait for some time and it is very amazing it will appear at the end:) This is already my experience.
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@bounce58 (17387)
• Canada
17 Nov 11
I carry with me a memory stick in my pocket at all times. There are some important files in this stick like, resumes, government forms, photocopies of passports, voided checks etc. So, I have a habit of constantly checking it inside my pocket.
At my last job, I was startled one day that I couldn't find it in my pocket. All day I was trying to remember if I left it at home. When I finally got to the parking lot at the end of the day, I saw the stick on the ground near the driver side of my car. It was soaking wet, as it snowed the previous night, and it was sitting on some dirty snow.
It was such a relief when I found it!
@mssnow (9484)
• United States
15 Nov 11
I lost my camera and i had looked every where for it. i finally stopped looking for it but I was walking past the microwave and lo and behold my camera was sitting there. I could have sworn i had looked there a few times. I was glad to get it back. I left my purse at McDonalds and when i realized it we hurried and went back there it was still by the table where i had left it. Boy was i relieved.
@Rosa26 (2618)
• United States
14 Nov 11
The last time I lost something was some weeks ago, I lost my social security card,and I was very worried,that day I needed it to go to a place but I couldn't go because of that, the next I began to look for that and moved everything at home, the house was like a hoarder house, but I didn't stop until I found it, thanks God it was in one of my books.yes is bad sensation feeling that you loosed something, and the good part is when you find it.
@WakeUpKitty (8694)
• Netherlands
14 Nov 11
I mostly find everything back even if I gave up on it.
Which means that at the moment I decide to buy new or break the lock (bike) and just did it, the lost item is suddenly back.
My daughter lost her "doll" she could not sleep without it. So I searched the whole internet for one (bought it as I was still pregnant) I drove till midnight to the other part of the country to get one (and she kept screaming and crying till I was back for hours). She accepted the new one without a problem (even it was brand new, but the brown one exactly the same except for the colour she trew through the bedroom even I kept the light switched off as I put them in her bed).
One day later the old one was found outside on the street and deliverd back home.
By now she has 4 of them, as soon as I see a new one I buy one.
The other things I lost and did not find I found out later I just threw them away during one of my cleaning up (let's throw everthing away) days.
@gagagaohlala (294)
• Philippines
15 Nov 11
The topic caught my attention because I am the kind of person who likes doing artistic things a lot and I tend to procrastinate when time is not demanded. I tend to misplace these things and find them weeks or months or even years after then that time I remember that I still have some project to finish. And I admit I am sometimes careless and disregardful of my belongings so I know I've lost a couple of things that have not been recovered. But there was an instance, when I was in high school, I have lost my ID outside of the campus and it has been 4 days that nobody had returned it to me, so I was already set to get a new one until the guard had just gave it back it to me. Though that was excusable because it was an identification card, what's funny was that I placed a smiley sticker on my photo so it was surprising that the guard knew me by name. The most unbelievable thing that happened to me just a month ago was that I lost a thousand bucks while I was at the grocery store and I just found it out when I was already home counting my money. Then I traced where could I have possibly dropped it and recalled that it was in the freezer section where I had to buy ice cream. I immediately went back to the grocery store and looked for it when a mysterious guy suddenly asked me what I was looking for. Because I was ashamed how reckless I could be losing bills, I just said I've lost an important folded paper. He keeps on staring at me for no reason, like he knew something. I asked the salespersons if they have seen a money but they said no. A week later, someone called me from the grocery store that they have retrieved the exact same monetary value I have lost but they were not sure who was the real owner. They were hoping it was me, reminiscing how I went back and looked for it. I immediately went to the store and they gave me the money back, and said that a guy had returned it to them the day after I've dropped it. Thank God that man still existed, and I was thinking that was the mysterious man who wouldn't stop looking at me. Could I have just told him it was a money I lost right away when he asked, he could have managed to return it to me at that very same day. Or either way, I was grateful for that experience.
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