What have you found that you misplaced years ago?

[LizKat]

Wow, earlier this morning I found one of my iPod nanos, a black 8GB 3rd gen “phat nano” that I had even bought a set of jazzy iSkin body decals for at some point. I misplaced it sometime in 2014, judging from the “last played” dates on its music files.

Anyway today I bumped into it when opening a little plastic drawer (in one of the several racks of such in my studio) to get a packet of different needles for one of my sewing machines. “Hello!” Yeah, my missing iPod! So I charged it up and it works fine. What a kick! I feel like I just unboxed the thing.

I have no idea why the nano was in that drawer. However, one way to clean up a studio worktable at day end is to throw any small tools into one or another of those little plastic drawers, trying to bother sorting stuff properly so I can find it next time needed. Heh, but I think I’m usually a little better at telling a packet of sewing machine needles from an iPod than I was on the day I “lost” that nano.

What have you retrieved after thinking it lost forever but later realizing you'd merely misplaced it?

 

[designs216]

I've something that falls loosely into this category. Several years ago I could not find my TV remote in spite of a thorough search and I was forced to replace it. Last year, the couch spat up the original remote so now I have two.

 

[Huntn]

I’m thrilled when I find something I misplaced yesterday! That’s like a super bonus.

 

[LizKat]

forced to replace it

LOL that is usually how I find assorted stuff, yeah. Right after it's too late to return the replacement.

The other way was moving from one apartment to another in the city. I usually found things then that were half of a pair but I'd long since given up on matching the pair up again so so had ditched the half in hand. Ugh.

 

[Gutwrench]

Wow, earlier this morning I found one of my iPod nanos, a black 8GB 3rd gen “phat nano” that I had even bought a set of jazzy iSkin body decals for at some point.

Where was it, under your 8-Track player?

 

[LizKat]

Where was it, under your 8-Track player?

You are so bad. I never had one of those... I went from LPs to double-cassette boomboxes. Never even had a Walkman. At least those boomboxes were harder to misplace than the average iPod nano.

Go ahead, ask me if I ever misplaced a 78rpm treasure belonging to a grandparent...

 

[jbarley]

Common sense, lost it way back when and sorta found it again as I matured.

 

[960design]

What have you retrieved after thinking it lost forever but later realizing you'd merely misplaced it?

Enjoying the world again with a three year old's sense of adventure, laughter and bravery.

 

[TheSkywalker77]

This isn't technology related, but I just recently found a part to my pressure washer that I've been missing forever! I can finally pressure wash my driveway which needs it badly. Quite random if you ask me, but that driveway is gonna be looking quite nice pretty soon.

 

[JBGoode]

I once lost a Zippo lighter. 4-5 years later I found it in between where the seat of my office chair connects with the back. I had been practically sitting on it the whole time. I was amazed.

 

[curmudgeonette]

I once lost a Zippo lighter. 4-5 years later I found it in between where the seat of my office chair connects with the back. I had been practically sitting on it the whole time. I was amazed.

Some years back, I was flying to somewhere. I had taken my window seat and was getting settled. A woman was claiming the aisle seat. Suddenly she's all upset, claiming that someone stole her iPod. She did a cursory check around her seat and didn't find it. She spent the flight fuming in silence. Upon landing, she stood up into the aisle. Remembering her cursor check of the seat, I decided to do a better check. A slight tug of the seat cushion revealed the iPod - in the gap between the seat and back!

 

[ejb190]

I bought a spare MagSafe charger for my MBP because the old one was seriously frayed. I misplaced it a while ago, but no big deal as the old one still worked. Well, the day the old one died I went on a frantic hunt. I found the new charger in my tote bag - I had been carrying it everywhere for at least the last three months!

 

[Future-Proof]

What have you found that you misplaced years ago?

A jumbo jet. Yes I’m a magician. Left it in my hat which I ate, because I lost a bet. Jet needed a jet wash

 

[ejb190]

A jumbo jet. Yes I’m a magician. Left it in my hat which I ate, because I lost a bet. Jet needed a jet wash

Wait a sec. Are you the guy from this story? USPS, FedEx, UPS or other shipper? thread

 

[Future-Proof]

Wait a sec. Are you the guy from this story? USPS, FedEx, UPS or other shipper? thread

Haha

 

[Mac'nCheese]

Well I’m married with three kids. I think I found my virginity.

 

[LizKat]

Well I’m married with three kids. I think I found my virginity.

Well there are ways...

But otherwise you may end up celebrating that loss again while gaining "a caboose baby"...

Somehow the Chi Trib has this 1989 piece that actually hails from the NYT about those little critters...

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/...nt/8901210662_1_age-differences-child-age-gap​

 

[samiwas]

I have a story for this one...

I was touring a new sports stadium in Atlanta a few months ago when my phone rang, with a caller ID from Philadelphia, PA. I normally don't answer calls from numbers I don't recognize, but for some reason I did answer this one. This is basically how the call went:

Me: Hello?
Caller: Uhh...is this...uhhh....Bob Jones? (name changed to something very unimaginative)
Me: (annoyed) Ummm...yes.
Caller: Hi, Bob. My name is Joe Electrician and I work in Philadelphia.
Me: (thinking I'm on some scam or sales call) Okay.
Caller: I have been working in the Philadelphia International Airport. I was pulling some wire through the ceiling when I found a wallet. I opened it up and found an ID with your name, credit cards, and a business card with this number. Are you missing a wallet?
Me: You found my wallet in the Philadelphia Airport?
Caller: I think so.
Me: I lost that wallet somewhere around ten years ago in the Philadelphia Airport. To my knowledge, I left it on my lunch tray and threw it in the trash.
Caller: Well, I found it in the ceiling in the kitchen of a restaurant.
Me: Wow. Is everything still in it?
Caller: There's no cash, but it looks like all the credit cards and other cards are in here, and a note from who I guess is your wife.



So, I didn't find it, but a wallet I had lost ten or so years ago in an airport was found by an electrician pulling wire through the ceiling. I thought that was pretty incredible. He seemed upset when I said I didn't need him to send it to me.

 

[chown33]

I have a story for this one...

I was touring a new sports stadium in Atlanta a few months ago when my phone rang, with a caller ID from Philadelphia, PA. I normally don't answer calls from numbers I don't recognize, but for some reason I did answer this one. This is basically how the call went:

Me: Hello?
Caller: Uhh...is this...uhhh....Bob Jones? (name changed to something very unimaginative)
Me: (annoyed) Ummm...yes.
Caller: Hi, Bob. My name is Joe Electrician and I work in Philadelphia.
Me: (thinking I'm on some scam or sales call) Okay.
Caller: I have been working in the Philadelphia International Airport. I was pulling some wire through the ceiling when I found a wallet. I opened it up and found an ID with your name, credit cards, and a business card with this number. Are you missing a wallet?
Me: You found my wallet in the Philadelphia Airport?
Caller: I think so.
Me: I lost that wallet somewhere around ten years ago in the Philadelphia Airport. To my knowledge, I left it on my lunch tray and threw it in the trash.
Caller: Well, I found it in the ceiling in the kitchen of a restaurant.
Me: Wow. Is everything still in it?
Caller: There's no cash, but it looks like all the credit cards and other cards are in here, and a note from who I guess is your wife.



So, I didn't find it, but a wallet I had lost ten or so years ago in an airport was found by an electrician pulling wire through the ceiling. I thought that was pretty incredible. He seemed upset when I said I didn't need him to send it to me.

I'm finding it difficult to believe that you went through an airport and the only thing that got lost was your wallet.

Further compounding my doubts, the lost thing was later found.

Everyone knows that airports contain inter-dimensional rifts, through which random things disappear never to return.

 

[samiwas]

I'm finding it difficult to believe that you went through an airport and the only thing that got lost was your wallet.

Further compounding my doubts, the lost thing was later found.

Everyone knows that airports contain inter-dimensional rifts, through which random things disappear never to return.

I've lost my iPad twice while flying. Both times left it on the plane. One time, I actually got it back. The second time, not so much!

 

[Gutwrench]

The second time, not so much!

Thanks so much! Luv’n it!
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Everyone knows that airports contain inter-dimensional rifts, through which random things disappear never to return.

a couple decades ago I was flying with my gun and fell asleep. My jacket was open and as I opened my eyes some greaser looking like he was from Miami was eyeballing me from across the aisle. I didn’t lose anything and he escaped with minor injuries.

 

[LizKat]

... a couple decades ago I was flying with my gun and fell asleep. My jacket was open and as I opened my eyes some greaser looking like he was from Miami was eyeballing me from across the aisle. I didn’t lose anything and he escaped with minor injuries.

Talk about "back in the day"... wow.

I remember a friend had to buy a little pair of fold-up scissors after 9/11 or else couldn't even do hand sewing on a plane. Folded up looked like a big paperclip or something, unfolded I guess it managed to snip threads for at least at long as the flight lasted. But that was after "the great divide" on what flies and what doesn't on the person or in the carry-on baggage of regular passengers in an airline cabin.

"What I found after losing something" = a longer fuse, once I learned to rent a car or just take mine sometimes instead of spending more time in TSA queues than on the plane. I used to have a 160-mile one-way commute to work anyway (which I only made a couple times a week), so to me after 9/11, some leisure-time trips that I might earlier have flown became car trips once I realized how much time "a short flight" could end up eating.

On a lighter and more recent note: what I found after not even realizing I'd lost it was a blue Nalgene water bottle I'd left at at sibling's house sometime last summer. Found it not at the bro's cottage on Seneca Lake where we gathered for a picnic on the weekend, nope, but at another sibling's place next lake over (Cayuga) where a couple of us were invited to stay overnight Saturday to break up the trip back home. Nice of them to remember it was mine and return it to me. I have stuff of theirs here that I keep bumping into because none of us so far thinks to convert the lost to found-again when they show up here. If I live long enough I will have everything...

 

[elf69]

I moved in with my fiancee about 7-8 years ago now.

When I moved in I misplaced my portable mini disc player/recorder.

Found it again in the spare room in a box marked "volvo bits"
These bits came out my old volvo which i had AFTER moving in with my fiancee so no idea how got it that box!

I was looking for my reversing camera to fit to my hyundai.
I had it on the volvo as the V40 was quite long and hard judge distance with tow bar.

 

[Gutwrench]

I remember a friend had to buy a little pair of fold-up scissors after 9/11 or else couldn't even do hand sewing on a plane. Folded up looked like a big paperclip or something, unfolded I guess it managed to snip threads for at least at long as the flight lasted.

What a coincidence. Yesterday I was cleaning out a kitchen drawer and found a strange pair of scissors. After some research I determined they are quail egg scissors. Does finding something you completely forgot you had count?

 

[vkd]

I'll go out on a limb with this weird-i-gan. I had a blood test and found my thyroid hormones were low so started taking a supplement. This brought about a reconnection with lost memories, I realised that I had been living more or less in the 'now' for years and many memories had 'gone to sleep' and were 'awakened' again, which brought back a large portion of my life history.