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Losing Stuff

Joffrey

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Anyone else have a habit of losing things? I do as many a friend and family member has mentioned. Let's recap (from things pissing you off thread)

The umbrella is a smaller Gustbuster. Not teeny but small. Anyway, I left it in one of those "community" umbrella baskets at a restaurant while it was sleeting/snowing one night. Hour of drinking or so later and it was gone. Someone must've taken it.

Yeah, don't know why I lose things so easily. A lot of it is drinking related (get wasted somewhere and leave some under a table or coat check. But for fun let's do a quick rundown:

Filson zippered tote bags x2 - both at a bar (or was it on the train?) after getting shitfaced one night (over two years).
LL Bean Tote x1 - same as above.
3-5 Gustbuster umbrella - 3 in the lost bags above. 1 at the restaurant as mentioned above. A big gustbuster at a hotel after LSAT class.
Gloves
Hats
Winter Coat during winter x1 - new years 2010, went to some party with Magician. Blacked out and woke up in my apartment with no coat. It was 30 degrees or something outside
Cell Phone x2 - First time 5-6 years ago sophomore year in college lost it at a friends house after a day bbqing and horse shoes. Second time 3 years ago. Got trashed with a friend. Had my phone that night. It was no where to be found the next day (may've tossed it over the balcony)
Expensive as **** RL PL sunglasses - in LL Bean tote as above.

Lessons learned - Leave bag, gloves, sunglasses and anything not critical behind when going out for the night. It's worked well so far but no idea how I lost my glove dead sober at 12pm on the train.

Et toi?
 

ter1413

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Nope...Don't have that problem.
Learn from ur mistakes. If I am going out on a Fri/Sat and know that I will be getting "festive", I don't even take my wallet. I leave my wallet home. Take my money clip/bank card/cash keys and Berry. That's it! I don't carry "man purses" when I am really hanging. And I am good at not blacking out!
 

imatlas

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I lose a lot of stuff when I travel. Nothing earth shattering, stuff like earplugs, gloves, and the like. I was in Toronto a couple of weeks ago and left my gloves in a cab.

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SirWill

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I lose **** all the time, and mine is not from drinking. I am just extremely forgetful. The fun part is when I buy something, lose it, buy a replacement, then find the first one. I generally end up buying things like Carmex and eye drops every time I am at the store because I lose them.
 

997CTSurg

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Losing **** sucks......losing **** while drinking..even worse.
Just wait. It can get more expensive when drinking. Houses. Marriages.
Not talking from personal experience just from observations.
***** and Booze ruin.
 

Nouveau Pauvre

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Might be a factor of us hanging out. Remember when we went to DC9 and I lost my handmade fedora, scarf and ipod in one night?
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Dakota rube

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Originally Posted by 997CTSurg
Losing **** sucks......losing **** while drinking..even worse.
Just wait. It can get more expensive when drinking. Houses. Marriages.
Not talking from personal experience just from observations.
***** and Booze ruin.


Clearly, you are not at peace.
 

otc

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I even have a separate set of drunk keys that has nothing but my house keys on it...

If I am going out after work with coworkers or something it can be a conundrum...I won't bring my laptop but I still want to take my bag with a book for the commute and some random **** in it so that I have it the next day...but if it is a friday I will leave that in the office too.
 

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I think I lost my wallet today. And somehow I lost a cufflink that I really, really, really, really liked. In my house.

Damnit.

~ H
 

Joffrey

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Originally Posted by Magician
Might be a factor of us hanging out. Remember when we went to DC9 and I lost my handmade fedora, scarf and ipod in one night?
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I still think you know who had something to do with it. I still seem to remember leaving the ipod on my TV stand.
 

Slopho

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Originally Posted by Jodum5
I still think you know who had something to do with it. I still seem to remember leaving the ipod on my TV stand.

Didn't you lose your credit card the night of the last DC SF meet up?
 

Johnny_5

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I tend to get hammered and lose my credit or debit cards. Pretty stupid, but thankfully no one has taken the liberty to use them.
 

edinatlanta

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I'm very forgetful.

A few weeks ago watching my parents' place while they were on their anniversary trip was using their car and ****.

So I get home--last day I'm there. Go in the house through the kitchen, go to the living room that's it.

Realize I want to go to the store.

I've lost the car key.

I **** you not, I walked 20 feet.

Went through trash, recycling, cushions, everything. No luck.

Cost to replace: $400.
 

Michigan Planner

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I never really had a problem with losing things except during this past summer I left four combination locks at the gym over about a 2 week period. I solved that issue by buying the most outrageously colored one I could find and adding to it with my wife's nail polish. Now if I leave it there and it gets thrown in the "Box-o-Locks" I can easily pick mine out.
 

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