ever lost a wallet?

[Ozero]

And did ya get it back? With everything in it?


Today, i dropped my wallet, and noticed 5 min later.. i knew excatly where i dropped it, and went back.. but no luck, it was gone...

begin the freakout.

Everything was in there, EVERYTHING, every bit of id, cred cards, business cards of contacts....

bus tickets.. so no doctor's appt for me today.. awwww.

I go home, and cancel the one cred card.. it's a line of credit, and we dont use it for spending..

but the other card... was it in there, or did my wife have it? SHe's currently half way across tyhe country, and if i cancel it, she could be REALLY hosed.

while i'm debating this in my head, the phone rings. Community police. "did you lose a wallet?"

WHOOT!

I hustle over there to grab it, and even the cash is in there... Yay for small towns!

[Druid]

Sounds like good people.

[Soli]

Yay for you! I would always report a lost wallet if I ever found one. :)

[haterllnation]

My friend did on campus. Campus police called him to tell him that someone returned his wallet. All was good, minus the fact that the money currently nestled inside was ripped from the womb. The cred and soc were all there still, though. Cool to get all that back and no one got hosed.

[Urban~Ninja]

I did, on the bus, i got it back a week later, minus 50 dollar, 3 free hamburgers at Macca's and my Laser Pointer.....they stole my LASER POINTER!

[Josh]

I lose my wallet like every day. So far I've got a perfect record of finding it without anything missing though.

That panic feeling you get sucks big time, but its happened to me so often, it really doesnt do anything anymore.

[dzee]

i'm disgustingly careless and forgetful, and have lost mine thrice so far in public places. made police reports, perfect record so far of getting all back with contents all intact. ;)

[Decade]

The guy who lost his sidekicks hates you.

[dzee]

anyhow, i forgot to mention it, but you probably should just ask the police for the number of the person who found it, and thank them over the phone or something. they sound like nice folks. :)

i've been meaning to do that everytime, but i never get round to it, and after a loooong time, it becomes a lame thought. :duh:

[Ozero]

yeesh, you folks who lose it a lot .. i guess ya keep a lot of the more vital stuff elsewhere.. (birth cert, for example..)

Yeha, i shoulda asked the police for a contact to thank, but they didnt give the impression they took any info from them anyway....

I think if i found a wallet, my first reaction would to just try to contact the person myself.. save the middleman...

[MNJetter]

I left my purse in a mall once. Thought I'd never get it back. But somebody brought it to the lost and found. I'd say yay for small towns, but this was a city of 160,000 people. :)

My uncle left his wallet once at a bus stop in Tokyo. He couldn't get back there until the next day. In the United States, that would mean "bye-bye wallet!"

But when he did go back, he found that someone had picked it up and put it neatly on the bench, and tucked 1000 yen into the money pouch, probably because they opened it and noticed that my uncle hadn't been keeping any cash in there.

[haterllnation]

yeesh, you folks who lose it a lot .. i guess ya keep a lot of the more vital stuff elsewhere.. (birth cert, for example..)

Yeha, i shoulda asked the police for a contact to thank, but they didnt give the impression they took any info from them anyway....

I think if i found a wallet, my first reaction would to just try to contact the person myself.. save the middleman...


Yah, but I don't like the attention I would probably ring the door bell with a note about where I found it and what time and split. Hopefully, that isn't bad and I get chased by a shotgun and/or a dog. :duh:

[Pierrot le Fou]

I left my purse in a mall once. Thought I'd never get it back. But somebody brought it to the lost and found. I'd say yay for small towns, but this was a city of 160,000 people. :)

My uncle left his wallet once at a bus stop in Tokyo. He couldn't get back there until the next day. In the United States, that would mean "bye-bye wallet!"

But when he did go back, he found that someone had picked it up and put it neatly on the bench, and tucked 1000 yen into the money pouch, probably because they opened it and noticed that my uncle hadn't been keeping any cash in there.
Where is this magic 1000 yen generating bench? I could use some pocket money.

[blank slate]

I lost my wallet once. I didn't get a damn thing back, just my luck I guess.

[D-pad]

Where is this magic 1000 yen generating bench? I could use some pocket money.
Isn't that like 10.00 US dollars with a decent exchange rate?

[c-rex]

Isn't that like 10.00 US dollars with a decent exchange rate?
Free pocket money is free pocket monkey.

/1k yen is ~$8.70 american, dinner for two at Taco Bell.

[Nights_into_dreams]

Lost my wallet often enough that I stopped using one. When I go out these days, I stuff some cash into my front pocket first, then I will grab ONLY what else I will need to take with me (i.e. movie - bring ID, picking up some electronics - debit card, etc - etc).

Alot safer that way, for me at least...

[Kenshin]

I've lost my wallet about 3 times... the last time, I found everything, minus the cash... and the wallet itself. :bored:

[Mastiker]

my friend... okay, that's a stretch. I barely knew her, but we were on a first name basis, and had said hello to each other on occassion... anyways, i was staying after with a group of people, and she was one of them. everyone left at 4-ish, which left me by myself. i noticed that their was a purse on the table, and i was like "oh my... a female object..." so i ran away screaming. about an hour later i stopped being a pussy, and walked up to the purse. however, since it's been drilled into my head that purses are bad, i find another female to touch it. she says "oh, i already looked inside. there's id in the wallet, but i don't know who it is" sooo I look inside the purse, find the wallet, and find a temporary learner's permit. wewt! it's my friend. i go "heyyy.... i know this person." so i took it home, and returned it to the main office the next morning. about an hour later my friend storms down to where i'm at and yells at me for taking her money. after i told her what happened, she calmed down. someone had taken pretty much everything BUT her learner's permit XD all i could remember about the person who showed me the purse was that she was fat and ugly (i'm not shallow, but damn she was nasty) and that's all i could remember. turns out, it was that girl who had taken all the stuff, blah blah blah... and that struck me as stupid.

first of all, why take someone else's stuff? that's lame. second of all, if you're going to take it, why show it to someone else and let them take it home?! if they show it to the authorities, you're fucked, if they don't, you just lost some potential crap to be taken.

anyways, since i was the hero (i guess) i got a kiss and a phone number. wewt i win. :clap:

[Zaysho]

Well, it wasn't a money wallet per se, but I did lose a CD wallet (with CDs in it to boot!) and some fucker picked it up, but didn't turn it in to the school's office. Never did find the bastard that took it. The part that pisses me off the most is that it's a private school and most of the kids have more money than they know what to do with (me not being one of them) and they resort to stealing. Does anyone else see something terribly wrong with this? I did manage to replace a couple of the CDs, but that's about it. Just my luck... there's no one honest to return what isn't theirs.

[Mastiker]

Well, it wasn't a money wallet per se, but I did lose a CD wallet (with CDs in it to boot!) and some fucker picked it up, but didn't turn it in to the school's office. Never did find the bastard that took it. The part that pisses me off the most is that it's a private school and most of the kids have more money than they know what to do with (me not being one of them) and they resort to stealing. Does anyone else see something terribly wrong with this? I did manage to replace a couple of the CDs, but that's about it. Just my luck... there's no one honest to return what isn't theirs.
Hire a CSI team to find it for you :watson:

This kind of thing is lame though... at my sister's school, these kids kept coming back from gym and finding all of their stuff gone, except their clothes. This wasn't like, one or two, but at least 8 or 9 kids whose stuff was gone. And it wasn't small stuff, like lunch money, or jewlery, it was iPods, mp3 players, cameras, cell phones, cd players, and all other sorts of expensive shit. about a week later they found out who took it, and it was the richest kids in the school XD but at the same time, the kids who lost their stuff were retarded for 3 reasons; 1- they weren't supposed to have it in the first place 2- they didn't put it in their LOCKER 3- they own cell phones :frypan:

[El_CJ]

I've lost my wallet twice before. And my cellphone once. First time, wallet was returned to the cashier at the 7-11. He knew me, he liked me. I was bright, cheerful, and not scary looking (apparently). Handed it to me, assured me all of my money was there (it was) and I left.

The second time... I can't remember.

The cellphone was in the university Student's Union Building. I come back 15 minutes later looking really nervous, and some guy says, "Hey, you the guy who left this phone?" And I was very happy.

[seiji]

When I came to Japan, my mother insisted I carry all my important documents in one of those travel wallet-on-a-string-around-your-neck thingies. She was convinced I was going to leave my purse somewhere. I have never lost my purse or anything in it, and I had a very bad feeling about this travel wallet, but I decided to humor my mother and fill it with all my yen (1000USD worth) and my passport. Somewhere between Osaka-Itami airport and southwest Kyoto, it vanished. Never saw it again.
Good thing all my other ID and 6000yen in change were in my real purse, or my first act in Japan would probably have been diving off my 5th floor balcony.

[crow-kun]

I lost my wallet once luckily it was in a college library there was no money on my Id card (not even 15 cents for a print job), no money in my wallet, and everything else needed a Id to be used and I doubt anyone could pass as me with the size of my beard in the picture, my McDonalds card wasn’t taken either which only had 29 cents on it. They must of thought I was some broke bastard and didn’t even bother (or they were a decent human being) so they gave it to a library worker.

[Sen.McCarthy'sFreedomFist]

A friend and I went on a random trip to Oklahoma at 3 AM a week ago (I live near Dallas, TX. The critical parts of the story involved a submarine, biscuits and gravy, a hydroelectric dam, a gravestone, a gay bar, and a cancer research center. Piece that together. Moving right along...). Now, my wallet is in the parking lot of a Wal-Mart in Nowheresville. Cancelled everything in it. Had no money in there, so it's all good! Except, you know, I have no wallet.

[Riinuka]

Why don't you take a random trip back up there to get it? o O;

I live semi-sorta-near you.