Halx

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So, what have you lost before? I am a very mindful person about my possessions and I think the only things I've ever lost have been things that were taken from me... like my Save Ferris CD... where the hell did that go? I'm very certain that I don't lose anything because... well... I'm such a packrat, I could open up a computer store with all the product I have lying around.

I actually left my keys in the door the other night, so that freaks me out...

Ohh.. wait.. actually, one time in like 5th or 6th grade, I lost my retainer. I had it on my lunch tray and I threw it out. The janitor had to sift through bags and bags of trash just to find it. I keep imagining Groundskeeper Willy waist deep in trash, cursing all of the damn kids and their dental appliances.

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aphex140

apart from my cool, and some good friends

More clothes than anything else, jackets, jumpers and shoes - all most proberly living in a community far far away with the sock you loose in washing machines.

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maleficent

NYC Taxi cabs have reminder messages to take your belongings, done by celebrities. One of those celebrities was Yo Yo Ma, who left a several million dollar Stradivarius Cello in the trunk of a cab, and if memory serves, used the receipt to track down the cab and recover it.

I've had more stuff stolen than lost, generally by doing something stupid (had a cell phone stolen falling asleep on the train, had a comforter stolen by leaving the laundry room unattended, a watch stolen by having it a the pool area in a hotel. Lost items: socks, single gloves. I couldn't imagine leaving a laptop in cab, I always check the seat when I get out of a cab to make sure I haven't left anything.

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stevie667

I lost my friend in a taxi once, granted we were both slightly drunk and he was alseep on the floor, but we got him back in the end

flstf

I haven't lost too many things. I left my wallet on the table in a crowded bar once, took off and realized it about 10 minutes later driving home. Went back and was amazed it was still there and still full of cash.

I'm convinced that there is a special place where socks must go. I must have a dozen singles and we do our laundry at home.

Charlatan

I have had two laptops stole (one from my house and one from my car) but never misplaced on... I rarely lose things as I am too paranoid of losing them...

There was one time that I lost my keys. I was sitting at my desk and they fell off the front of my desk to the floor. I was on the phone at the time so I just made a mental note to pick them up later. After a bit I walked to the other side of my desk and they were gone... I looked everywhere and could not find them. I am convinced they fell into a wormhole.

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warrrreagl

When I was 7 I had a favorite Hot Wheels car; a little yellow McLauren. It was the coolest Hot Wheels car in the world. One day, I was playing with it in my bedroom and it rolled underneath my dresser. I crawled over to get it out, but it wasn't there. I got a flashlight and looked, I moved the dresser, etc., but the McLauren disappeared. For the next several years, I'd find myself crawling around occasionally still looking for that damned McLauren.

When my family moved out of that house five years later, I stood and watched them move the dresser just in case that car was somehow still back there; it wasn't.

Rest in peace, little car.

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StanT

I don't suppose losing my mind counts. I constantly lose stuff in my house. I know it's in the house, but I just can't find it. DVDs, shoes, motorcycle helmet, ID for work, I know they made it home; but I have no clue where they went.
Fortunately, I'm married, so I blame my wife.

Glory's Sun

I used to lose things all the time. My wallet and keys were never where they were supposed to be. I've had countless clothes, dvds, cds and such left at houses or just taken. I'm alot better about it now. I don't think I've actually lost anything in quite a while. /me knocks on wood.

raveneye

I can beat all these stories. After a Hawaii trip, I was (totally sober!) checked into the plane, buckled into my seat while the flight attendants were doing their safety routine.

Suddenly I panicked, remembering I left my rental car parked out at the terminal, with the trunk open and the motor running ! ! ! ! ! !

I had to run out of the plane (thankfully they let me do that). I'm sure everybody thought I was nuts. The car was till there, motor still running, no ticket. I managed to get on the next flight.

Oropher

I have lost my wallet, house keys, shoes, and my jacket. Thankfully not all at once.

hu-man

This reminds me of the Ren & Stimpy episode where they enter a black hole and finds all the missing left socks in the world:



I don't think I've ever lost anything important, but there are several cds and movies that I out of the blue can't find. I probably borrowed them to somebody, and they forgot to give them back.
I think it all works out in the end though, because I also have several cds and movies I can't remember buying, and I can't remember who I borrowed them from.

rockzilla

I'm pretty mindful of my more valuable possessions, if the price tag was three digits, it's not leaving my hands in public. I have a bad habit of losing small stuff, only to find it after I replace it though. I lost my bus pass early in November, I didn't bother replacing it that month, I just used cash when I rode the bus and waited for December to get a fresh one. Sure enough, I found my old bus pass wedged in the cushions of the couch on December 3rd.
I owned two toques three weeks ago, they both went missing one after the other, so I bought a new one and then found one of them in a corner hidden under some junk that same night.

projectself

i never "lose" but constantly misplace. i can never find my glasses, my debit card, my keys, my checkbook. sometimes silverware will end up in the refrigerator, or bell peppers in the drawer.. it just seems that i can be very absent-minded when there's something important that i am distracted by.

Rlyss

I lost a radiohead CD for a few years. I was salvaging some parts from an old dusty computer and opened up the CD drive and there it was, Radiohead's Amnesiac, covered in dust but without a scratch.

I also lost my favorite cap gun when I was about ten. I think I left it in a pile of dirt (in a construction site) but my brother was convinced some other kids stole it and he beat them up a bit.

And I don't know if this is lost or stolen, but when I was seventeen a friend and I asked some older guys to buy us some beer, so they did as long as we shared some of it. We said sure, then we had to go into the MCG (stadium) to watch the cricket, and these guys said they'd get us pass-outs so we could get in. So they took my jacket and wrapped up their share of the beer in it, went into the stadium and we never saw them again. So we lost my jacket and half a case of beer. Very expensive mistake, that was.

aphex140

LOL

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roachboy

i was wondering if dignity is an object.

many many things have gone away.


i think i wear cash repellent as an aftershave, so i could count vast amounts of it as lost.
laptops
luggage
record collections/cds
books

things just go away.

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IC3

I have had some stuff stolen from me, I think the most valuable was Wayne Gretzky's rookie card along time ago.

I'm famous for change falling out of my pockets, everybody knows it too. I go to somebody's house and after i leave they scoop it up from under the cushion of the couch lol

Heres an example. My car has bucket seats, so whenever i get in my car i usually always lose some change that falls under my seat onto the floor..I let it build up for awhile, I cleaned my car out one day and counted 45 dollars in just toonies & loonies.

I can't say that i have ever left anything of value like a laptop or cellphone behind.

I'm famous for misplacing things around the house like..Bank Card, Car Keys etc.

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ratbastid

Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.

But seriously folks...

I'm famous for leaving jackets behind. I've lost at least two jackets by leaving them in the overhead bins on planes. I left a jacket in the compartment of a train in Italy. I left one on a coatrack at a museum--you'd think their lost and found would have it, but no.

These have all been canvas "barn jacket" type jackets. So my solution was to buy a really nice, expensive leather jacket that, if I lose, I'll be actually upset about. It's worked so far!

alicat

When I was 18 my hubby (then boyfriend) bought me a couple newts and a cute little lagoon terrarium for them to live in. One night I came home from class to find the lid on but the newts gone. We searched for hours upstairs and down for the little critters but never found them.

Three years later. Hubby and my dad were in the basement working on the furnace and yelled for me to come down. Yup, there in a chute were my little newts...."pet"rified.

Ali

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the_marq

I have lost many pairs of pants and a few shirts.

This makes my girlfriend very suspicious.

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cyrnel

Sockets, nuts, bolts, and my temper, all right behind a frame joint or valve cover or other place no human limb can reach. I believe mini-Yoda lives back in those crannies and "forces" things to fall into them.

Dano069

My youthful enthusiasm and my sanity.

Socks, shoes, jackets, money, wallet (though it was returned, something about a big-ass hole in me back pocket) keys, entire belief system, you know, the usual.

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raeanna74

When I was a teenager I lost my purse once. Didn't have a drivers lisence, checkbook, or anything like that yet. I think I only had like $10 in the purse. It was out of state when I lost it. I did have some identification in it thankfully. Someone found it, took out $2 and mailed it to me in a package. I didn't mind they took the money - guessing they used it to mail it.

I also lost an Onyx ring. I left it on the fooseball table at college. When I remembered it and went back the next day. It was lost - GONE.

I lost silverware and mittens when I was in elementary school. I was always loosing papers and things.

Now - most I loose are papers, notes, toys(course that's not me so much as the kids), and pens.

I have "lost" a lot of things since we moved. I know they're here because they're not at the old apartment but I have many unpacked boxes still for things to hide in. Eventually I should be able to find them all but I will have to wait till cooler weather before I feel like tackling the boxes in the garage.

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Grancey

I misplace things all the time, but rarely lose anything. Right now I'm waiting for my new dayplanner to turn up. I found it in a discount bin at a great price, and it just slipped out of sight for a while. But it will reappear.

When I was about 6, my mother took my brothers and me to Silver Springs in Florida. As I was boarding the glass bottom boat, one of my flip flops slipped off and fell into the water. So, everyone on the boat had to wait while this guy with a fishing pole successfully hooked my shoe and fished it out of the water.

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Suave

My Civilization 2 disc. And I want to play SOOOOOOO BADLY.

I don't normally lose things that I deem important, since it's horribly wasteful to do so.

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ngdawg

I lose everything that can be held in my hand at one point or another. I lost a complete set of keys with a watch that was given to me by a dear friend-a PTCruiser watchfob that didn't even work anymore, but I still cherished it. The keys also had my classroom passkey for the school I worked in, so they weren't real thrilled. I went to all the stores in the shopping center I was pretty sure I lost them at, but no dice. I think someone found them and just took them for the watch. I never did tell him I lost it.

Grasshopper Green

I lost (or had it stolen, which I suspect) an emerald ring that my parents gave me when I graduated high school; that was pretty upsetting.

I left my purse (with credit cards, passport, hotel keys, and ID) in a taxi in Mexico. Thank god the driver and the employees at my hotel were honest; I got it back with everything intact.

I managed to lose half of our plates when we moved into our new apartment; I still have no idea where they are.

Julie

the only thing i ever lost was my gorgeous figure. Goddamn kids!

but I'm getting it back, so that doesn't suck Soooo bad

reiii

everything I need at the most critical moment

Thats why I'll never sky dive

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tspikes51

I've lost over $500 dollars in CD's ($300 in one installment, $200 in the other), some yo-yo's when I was a kid, Magic cards, and all of my textbooks last semester (luckily they were found) just to name a few. I'm a very forgetful person.

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IC3

Lighters..I haven't met anybody who smokes that can keep the same lighter for more than a couple weeks, Im the same way unless i'm using my zippo..which i don't use very often because i can't seem to find another like it anywhere.

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dobster

I was so sick of losing my woolen hats, that I bought 3 versions of the same one.

For years, I lost the switch in my head that reminded me to look and check if i'd left anything on the seat where i was sitting. Lost so many sets of keys this way. Thank God i didn't have a cellphone back than.

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Powderedmaggot

Of all the things I've lost I miss my mind the most.

settie

I haven't lost anything in awhile thank god, I keep track of where things are, cause I hate losing stuff.
I remember losing my gold earring when I was out at a skating practice one summer day. I noticed it was missing while skating, and spent the next hour searching the entire arena for it...never found it. I plan on replicating the other so I can wear it again.
I also lost my favourite navy blue hoodie once. I dont even know where it went, just one day, when I wanted to wear it, I looked in my closet, and it wasn't there!
The most recent time I lost something was my keys. I was taking the school bus home, was wearing sweatpants with baggy pockets, so Im guessing they slipped out of my pocket and onto this other girls's backpack. haha...she gave them back the next day. Haven't lost my keys since.

theburner

My virginity. Damn.. I was saving it for marriage. Oh well, some lucky girl must have it tucked in a drawer somewhere.

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RogueHunter65

There is really only one thing that I have ever lost and that is my lucky baseball hat. I had a quicksilver hat that was black with silver writing that said "GO" in big letters on the front, and "Eddie Would" on the back.

The story on the hat was that I got it from a shop in Hawaii. The store owner told me about a young surfer named Eddie that was on the island. He said that he was the best surfer ever. One day after a competition he was celebrating with friends on the beach when they heard yells coming from the water. Eddie swam out there with his board and gave it to the person who was drowning. The person was able to get back to the shore but Eddie got hit by a wave and drowned. So the saying of "GO, Eddie would" had a strong message to me, that you should help others.

I lost the hat and have never found another, maybe one day I will find one on eBay.

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Demeter

When I was 12 my parents gave me an engraved silver pen & pencil set for Christmas. I lost the pencil at school shortly thereafter & was sick to my stomach for days over it. About four years later, a schoolmate hands me the pencil back and said, "hey, I found this downtown on the sidewalk." (We lived in a fairly small town).
This was years later. And being that she was not the brightest girl I have ever know, I think she stole it, and then realized with my name on it, she could never use it in school anyway (and she wasn't one for homework, if you know what I mean). I don't know why she hung on to it for so long before returning it, but I was glad to have it back.

Squishor

Couldn't you contact the shop in Hawaii and have them send you another one?

I've lost so many things that their stories, and the tale of how they departed, could fill a book. However there is one incident that comes to mind:

I bought a new pair of earrings one day, and I was all excited about them because they were just what I was looking for. I wore them that night when I went out to dinner with my boyfriend. After we ate I went to use the restroom, and just as I stood up and flushed, one of them slipped out of my ear and fell into the toilet! In dismay I watched it get sucked down with the swirling water - there was nothing I could do about it and it was gone. Damn.

younggunz

I lose tons of socks and underwear. Lost one girlfriend. I also lost all the items off of one of my online video games when someone got access to my account. I lost my eligiblility for National Honors Society in high school when i had some bogus honor council issues at school. probably more stuff that wasnt worth keeping track of