Inexplicably losing things

[Ki3r]

Five years ago I got trained to use the speed laser with the police. I got a certificate to say I had completed the training.

Never needed it until last year, going to court for a ticket. For some reason my personal recorded wasn't updated, so no record of me having completed the training. No problem, I'll find my certificate. Can I find it? Not a chance.

The officer who had trained me had left the force. I end up having to write a extra statement every time a ticket went to court.

Arranged to get retrained as I wasn't pleased with constantly having to do the extra statement, and didn't want a case to be lost if they didn't believe I was trained.

Training completed a few weeks ago.

Sunday I'm sorting through a folder, aptly named 'police', and low and behold, inside is my original certificate.

Sod's law.

[grumpy52]

I have found things in my old companies courtesy cars that people had thought lost forever, a pair of antique diamond and gold earrings worth a couple of grand ,the owner was convinced that she never had them in the car ,also a ladies very expensive purse containing several hundreds of pounds many top notch credit cards (diners club amex etc)
With a list of pin numbers .
Agian she swore the purse had never been in the car .

[Quhet]

For anyone interested, I found my coat this morning. It was in the loft

[anonymous-user]

Found my inner self briefly after many years only to lose it again shortly beforehand.

[robinessex]

99% of lost things in my house is the wife being tidy. Lost count of the unread mags that have gone into the re-cycle bag, which I now studiously check before collection. If I buy an article of clothing the wife doesn't like the look of, it mysteriously gets 'lost'. Brother in-law lost his camera a few days ago. The day after, my sis calls him to ask why her new washing machine was making a funny thumping noise. You guessed it, they'd found the camera. Dead as a dodo now.

[anonymous-user]

robinessex said:

Lost count of the mags that have gone into the re-cycle bag, I now studiously check my collection.

wink wink SAY NO MORE does you wife like photography....?

[98elise]

I lost a loft hatch.

I was doing up a whole house, and it was can an empty shell other than my tools in the kitchen, and the loft hatch in one of the bedrooms. I was the only person working in the house.

The refurb took a few months but the loft hatch was always against the wall in the bedroom.

The day before the tenant was due to move in I touched up the wood work, then went to install the hatch and the bloody thing was missing.

I never did find it.

[otolith]

All the time. Go to the car, get in, haven't got my specs. Go back in the house. Search for specs. Eventually find them. Go back to car. Realise I have put the keys down somewhere in the house while looking for specs...

[djt100]

HTP99 said:

Too true.

My wife is always moaning at me that I leave things out; I have a system, if a bill or bit of paperwork is left out then I see it and I know it needs doing, if it isn't visible then it doesn't get done.

The wife is a tidier upper, things dissappear, however oh no it's not her when some of my paperwork has gone missing, I must have moved it, yet she moans that I leave things out, so in one breath she is saying I'm messy and don't tidy things away and in the other breath she is saying I've tidied it away, I've even caught her moving my stuff.

This is me, I need a visual prompt so i leave things so i know they need doing, then the misses clears up and then ,moans that i haven;t done xyz

[DaveGoddard]

RizzoTheRat said:

grumpy52 said:

Lost my car in town one christmas .checked every car park then remembered I walked into town because parking would be a nightmare .
DOH !

A mate once spent ages wandering around a car park trying to find his Renault 5 before remembering he'd borrowed his fathers Range Rover

I once nearly did something similar to this. Normally whenever I go into Birmingham city centre I take the train as from my place it costs less and is less hassle than trying to park. On one occasion though I got called to a job in the centre at short notice so had to drive. Managed to park, completed my work, and afterwards was walking through the doors of New Street station and was about to look in my pocket for my ticket when I remembered that I'd driven into the city.

Inexplicably losing things? Only my own fking sanity!

[AJS-]

Keep going and you get onto a sort of merry go round where what you put in the washing basket bears no relationship to what is in your wardrobe a few days later. You will have clothes that go missing for months on end then magically reappear and stuff you have no recollection of buying will be in your wardrobe.

I sometimes suspect my wife is living a dual life with someone of a similar build and taste in shirts and occasionally confuses my stuff with his.

[Type R Tom]

Took my belt off one pair of trousers at 6:00pm last night, by 4:30 this morning it had completely disappeared.

[brickwall]

For me it's portable hard-drives. I must have bought 4-5 of them, but I have no idea where they've gone. At £50 a go it's not as bad as some on here, but annoying nonetheless.

[surveyor]

Last time in Ireland I realised while in Belfast that I'd left all of my shirts and jumpers in the hotel Wardrobe in Limerick. Fortunately did not cost too much to get them back, as some of them were quite expensive.

This trip had a call yesterday from the Hotel that I stayed in to tell me that I'd left my Kindle behind. That's the one that I've just bought. Being posted back to me so hope it survives, and hope I get there before my wife!

[Johnnytheboy]

My fave was in a student flat, losing my one pair of scissors quite early on the academic year.

Near the end of the year found them on top of the wardrobe.