@metageist That’s definitely sad. I lost my wedding ring for about six months but it turned up in the bottom of my closet under some shoes. It must have fallen out of the pocket of my pants when I hung them up. Here’s hoping yours turns up.
@sammydog01 I buy rings off eBay that I get compliments on that cost me hardly anything. I bought my partner a 99¢ One Ring that he’s been wearing on a chain for over six months and it looks brand new.
@SSteve I keep thinking I’ll find it somewhere like the bottom of the laundry pile or something. But its been a few weeks so now I’m wondering if I should buy a new cheap one like @RiotDemon suggests, or give up and stop wearing one at all like @sammydog01 suggests?
@metageist I never really understood the whole point of wedding rings. You know you’re married. Your spouse knows you’re married. Good enough for me! You can do a lot more to show you love the spouse with your actions than a little ring will show, I feel. Just in case you wanted the opinion of one of those damn Millennials, which you probably didn’t (I’m also pretty far from what media portrays as a typical Millennial too but whatever).
@Mehsturbator my main reason to wear one is the simplest: its the rare piece of jewelry I consistently wear and I think they are pretty
But yeah, I’m not wearing it to prove anything to anyone, including ourselves. We didn’t even have a wedding, and have owned our house together twice as long as we’ve been technically married. Being married is a technicality not a badge.
@RiotDemon The safety director at the plant where I used to work collected photos of industrial accidents. One involved a wedding ring, a wrench, and “I bet you can’t change that while it’s spinning”.
Job gone as of 3/31. Marbles long before. Sunglasses lost about 10 years ago in a Mexican bathroom (LPT: Don’t take your sunglasses off in a public bathroom and put them on the toilet paper dispenser “just for a minute” because you’ll forget them and that’ll be that). Keys, phone, jacket and bag are always available.
And of course, like you all, I always know where to find my towel.
@DaveInSoCal i did that with my phone! At rhe movie theater and i sat down with my son and freaked out RAN back to the bathroom and some jack off threw it in the toilet!!!
The last thing I can remember losing was the earrings my husband bought me…for either my birthday or Christmas, I can’t remember which. One of them showed up on the kitchen floor one day weeks after they went missing. I never did find the other one. I suspect Torben ate it. I can’t wear earrings anymore because he always tries to take them out of my ears.
The most recent thing I lost is a sad tale.
Me and my girlfriend went to the rodeo (which is a Big Deal in Houston). We got these coupon books with lots of free stuff and tickets. But before hitting the carnival, we went shopping and bought a new dog collar.
After a fun time at the carnival, we went to play the next game, and i discovered I lost the coupon book at the fried Oreos stand. After a fruitless search, we gave up and got the tickets replaced by customer service but the coupons were gone.
Dejected, we tried to have some more fun but it wasn’t anymore, so we left. Almost to the exit, I discovered that the collar was also gone! We ran back around the entire route, but no dice. We finally left after an hour of searching, not talking for a good 10 minutes of the train ride.
A weekends worth of tickets to New Orleans Jazz Fest for me and my wife. Had to buy them again at the gate. Ouch. Found them a month later fell down between the seat and the console.
Still worth it. Santana on a lazy Sunday with Stevie Wonder and Eric Clapton. Magical.
NOJHF never disappoints. Ever. Wishing I was there this year too. Sigh.
I lost my job last May but I already had another job lined up that started June 1. I was holding off on giving notice because I felt some layoffs coming on. Turned out I was right.
I used to lose jackets pretty regularly but I haven’t lost one since losing the previous job.
@f00l I got a month’s severance but they had already cut me to half-time and I had one raise in five years so it wasn’t all that significant. But it was better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick. When the job started in 2008 I was doing programming in support of physicists doing research into applications of acoustic cavitation. It was challenging and a lot of fun. But there were direction changes over the years and by the end it had devolved into an IT job and was no longer fun. I worked with great people, though.
I honestly don’t remember losing anything, as in misplaced and never relocated. I’ve had things stolen, or more often, borrowed by people and never returned, but actually lost? By me? Not so much.
The last important thing I lost was my job. My tools were all “lost” (along with all the parts to the furniture I took apart to put in storage and the pieces to an 1964 melodian I was fixing along with the box that had all my pot and pan lids), but since this stuff was stolen while I was putting things in storage I am not sure that counts as lost.
I was going with ‘my temper’ but I’m pretty good at keeping that in check. Let’s go with the softball game three weeks ago. Though we may have won that, we kind of suck at keeping score.
I lost my surface book charging cable. I went to bed and my surface book was plugged in in the living room. I got up, ran to a PT appointment, came home, ran back out to pay the IRS, came home and my computer was where I left it on the couch… But no cord. Asked the kids… Called hubby at work… Checked around the house in case a dog or cat got it wrapped around a leg while playing formula 1 and pulled it out. Nope! Never did find it. And those beasts are $100 to replace. First the IRS then Micro$oft. It was a painful day.
Technically it was a job, not my only one at the time.
Otherwise I’d have to go back 20+ years to the time I lost my wallet. I tend not to lose things these days, though until recently I thought I’d lost my … sunglasses. (Ding!)
Lost my eye glasses. Left them at a hotel in Florida. Hotel lost and found staff and manager won’t return my calls. Frustrating because I know exactly where I left them and they certainly didn’t look like trash, so the housekeeping staff probably stole them to sell on ebay or something. I offered to may shipping to mail them back to me, but no response. Jerks.
I lose stuff all the time. Fortunately, I’m pretty good at finding it so they don’t stay lost. My last “big one” that stayed lost was my heavy winter coat. I was out of town at a conference, where I went to many different rooms. Cold in the morning, warm by afternoon. Didn’t think about it until going home.
The funny thing is I just did lose my literal marbles… little balls… oh wait… little glass balls. Still not better? I give up, they apparently rolled off on their own.
Lost a car key in the park a couple of years ago and couldn’t find it. Had to walk home and get the backup key. I posted signs at the park with a $25 reward in case someone found it but no luck. I left an inexpensive hoodie with large sentimental value in a hotel last month. Fortunately it was a high end hotel that has a return service. It cost me more than the replacement cost for shipping but it was worth it. I left an expensive sweatshirt in the Uber that brought me home from the airport and we’ve been texting back and forth to get it back. Unfortunately she rarely Ubers and lives 20 miles away in a part of town I never visit due to insane (for my part of the world) traffic. I was in a bad mental and emotional state on that trip last month and all kinds of stuff got out of my control.
@Kawa Yup, I’ve probably lost the 10 this offer is making in sunglasses over the course of my life. My speed record was a birthday gift to myself; lost it on the way home.
permanent loss= sunglasses (before I started buying Dollartree cheapies and don’t care now)
best ‘temporary’ loss= I went to Copper Mountain to go skiing once and managed to lose my car keys (only set I had brought with me of course…). Went over the trails and ‘off run’ areas we had skied with no luck (gee… big surprise there…) Asked at the main lodge ‘lost and found’ yeah… like that was gonna happen… and BY GOD it did. Someone had found them while skiing in the same grove of trees off the runs, picked them up and actually turned them in! A-freaking-Mazing!
(of course, now in similar critical situations, I always have an extra set available.)
My wallet was lost in the mail - on its way back to me after I left it at my brother’s in Saginaw. I thought I’d miss losing my Social Security card. But it turns out you don’t need the card. I never got that replaced. That was in 1963.
@sligett My mom lost mine when I was a little kid, but I needed an actual card to apply for my retirement and pension startup, so I had to get a replacement. I also was required to provide the actual card at a tax prep help site. I went almost 50 years without one and needed it twice in the past couple.
Technically, my job. I have 9 or so more months to find another position in the company or I’ll be terminated at that time.
I did lose someone else’s keys on a ride at universal. It was cheaper to pay someone to drive roughly 5 hours roundtrip to bring a spare key instead of paying to have the computer reprogrammed and getting one key.
Last time I was at the park, I was just a wee bit paranoid that I was going to lose my own.
Not necessarily a most recent, but a biggest deal: was traveling around Europe during spring break in between terms of a school network I was attending over there. Bought a EuroRail pass in while at one campus in England and took all my luggage, etc. to the next campus in Austria. While in Austria, I could not find my rail pass, and had to go buy another one (about $300) before I could start my travels.
When I got back home in the states 3 months later and started unpacking, I found the original pass tucked into one of those semi-useless flat pockets on the side of my laptop bag.
I was reading a book in my home office. Went to do something else. A few days later went back to book but it was gone. Turned the office upside down to no avail. Husband even looked through the garbage. And I can’t remember the name of the book but the author’s written many, many books so don’t know which one it was in order to replace it. Really annoys me.
@ragingredd Oh yeah… I forgot about that
I had a cat that showed up at my house when I rolled in from work at 2330 one night. She was totally emaciated, but super friendly. Took it to the vet to get checked out, spayed etc. once I convinced the missus that it would be an outside cat (she is allergic).
All was great, even built her a ‘cat-house’ out of insulated foam board and put a kitty heater pad in it that she seemed to really like.
All was well until we went out of town for a few days a few months later. We left out food/water and had Mom check on her from next door. When we got back we couldn’t find her that night, then the next morning we found her under the porch. Looked like she was hit by a car, so back to the vet… fractured femur, broke pelvis, abrasions… 4 weeks later got her back minus one back leg.
She did fine until one day a few months later, she decided to take a powder and disappeared. Not sure if she moved on to some other residence, or if she got eaten by a coyote across the street or whatever. Never did find any sign of her…
–Sigh–
Dibs on the My marbles answer. No one else here can possibly be as authentic.
/giphy "lost my marbles"
@f00l
@thismyusername
Now how do I get them back into my skull? Hmmm.
Also I think those look way too big to be mine. Mine are nanoscopic.
@f00l I lost mine long ago. Many things long gone since. Most recent is the memory of what I was looking for…
@speediedelivery
So sad for me that I have never possessed an actual adult brain.
/giphy "poor me"
@speediedelivery those dang door thresholds!
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-walking-through-doorway-makes-you-forget/
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160307-why-does-walking-through-doorways-make-us-forget
@thismyusername
I just keep losing things.
Born that way, I think.
@f00l The survey says recently… Everyone here lost theirs years ago.
My vir- no, wait, nevermind.
@Mehsturbator
@PlacidPenguin
Trying to remember if I was ever extra.
Think perhaps not.
@f00l
Ducks make fun pets.
@f00l
No idea why I’m interested in how great of a pet a duck makes.
@f00l
When were you oil?
@PlacidPenguin
Didn’t say I had ever been oil. Was wondering if I were ever extra-virgin.
@PlacidPenguin
How would you know anything about ducks? Or do you mean ducts?
@f00l
Lengthy answer not for here.
my wedding ring
/giphy sad
@metageist That’s definitely sad. I lost my wedding ring for about six months but it turned up in the bottom of my closet under some shoes. It must have fallen out of the pocket of my pants when I hung them up. Here’s hoping yours turns up.
@metageist My husband lost two and decided it was easier to not wear one. Good thing I trust him.
@sammydog01 I buy rings off eBay that I get compliments on that cost me hardly anything. I bought my partner a 99¢ One Ring that he’s been wearing on a chain for over six months and it looks brand new.
@SSteve I keep thinking I’ll find it somewhere like the bottom of the laundry pile or something. But its been a few weeks so now I’m wondering if I should buy a new cheap one like @RiotDemon suggests, or give up and stop wearing one at all like @sammydog01 suggests?
@metageist I never really understood the whole point of wedding rings. You know you’re married. Your spouse knows you’re married. Good enough for me! You can do a lot more to show you love the spouse with your actions than a little ring will show, I feel. Just in case you wanted the opinion of one of those damn Millennials, which you probably didn’t (I’m also pretty far from what media portrays as a typical Millennial too but whatever).
@metageist if you want more reason to not wear rings, look up “ring avulsion” (don’t look up ring avulsion unless you like looking at gross stuff.)
@Mehsturbator my main reason to wear one is the simplest: its the rare piece of jewelry I consistently wear and I think they are pretty
But yeah, I’m not wearing it to prove anything to anyone, including ourselves. We didn’t even have a wedding, and have owned our house together twice as long as we’ve been technically married. Being married is a technicality not a badge.
@RiotDemon
/giphy nope
@metageist One of my husband’s rings is at the bottom of that big lake in Disney World. That one’s never showing up.
@RiotDemon The safety director at the plant where I used to work collected photos of industrial accidents. One involved a wedding ring, a wrench, and “I bet you can’t change that while it’s spinning”.
Of all the things I’ve lost, I miss my mind the most.
@heartny
@thismyusername Still like the original but this is not bad.
Job gone as of 3/31. Marbles long before. Sunglasses lost about 10 years ago in a Mexican bathroom (LPT: Don’t take your sunglasses off in a public bathroom and put them on the toilet paper dispenser “just for a minute” because you’ll forget them and that’ll be that). Keys, phone, jacket and bag are always available.
And of course, like you all, I always know where to find my towel.
@DaveInSoCal i did that with my phone! At rhe movie theater and i sat down with my son and freaked out RAN back to the bathroom and some jack off threw it in the toilet!!!
@ragingredd
Why though?
@DaveInSoCal 42
My hat… I am almost always losing hats.
Job wins I guess, even though that was years ago. I’ve never lost any of the other shit
The last thing I can remember losing was the earrings my husband bought me…for either my birthday or Christmas, I can’t remember which. One of them showed up on the kitchen floor one day weeks after they went missing. I never did find the other one. I suspect Torben ate it. I can’t wear earrings anymore because he always tries to take them out of my ears.
The most recent thing I lost is a sad tale.
Me and my girlfriend went to the rodeo (which is a Big Deal in Houston). We got these coupon books with lots of free stuff and tickets. But before hitting the carnival, we went shopping and bought a new dog collar.
After a fun time at the carnival, we went to play the next game, and i discovered I lost the coupon book at the fried Oreos stand. After a fruitless search, we gave up and got the tickets replaced by customer service but the coupons were gone.
Dejected, we tried to have some more fun but it wasn’t anymore, so we left. Almost to the exit, I discovered that the collar was also gone! We ran back around the entire route, but no dice. We finally left after an hour of searching, not talking for a good 10 minutes of the train ride.
tl;dr lost shit at the rodeo, ruined day
@cspwal Look at the bright side: you lost the collar but not the dog.
@cspwal @SSteve I’m not sure there was an actual dog involved. Must have really ruined the kink planned that evening…
@cinoclav Don’t think that didn’t cross my mind.
@cinoclav
/image choker collar
A weekends worth of tickets to New Orleans Jazz Fest for me and my wife. Had to buy them again at the gate. Ouch. Found them a month later fell down between the seat and the console.
Still worth it. Santana on a lazy Sunday with Stevie Wonder and Eric Clapton. Magical.
NOJHF never disappoints. Ever. Wishing I was there this year too. Sigh.
@mike808 Been talking about going to Jazz Fest for years. I’ve been to Mardi Gras a few times but JF sounds like a blast too.
I lost my job last May but I already had another job lined up that started June 1. I was holding off on giving notice because I felt some layoffs coming on. Turned out I was right.
I used to lose jackets pretty regularly but I haven’t lost one since losing the previous job.
@SSteve
Did you manage to get them to give you a payout?
That would be cool.
@f00l I got a month’s severance but they had already cut me to half-time and I had one raise in five years so it wasn’t all that significant. But it was better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick. When the job started in 2008 I was doing programming in support of physicists doing research into applications of acoustic cavitation. It was challenging and a lot of fun. But there were direction changes over the years and by the end it had devolved into an IT job and was no longer fun. I worked with great people, though.
The Kingswood pen I made back in 2008. Lost it 4 months ago after carrying it daily in my pocket.
I think I’ve lost it all.
I honestly don’t remember losing anything, as in misplaced and never relocated. I’ve had things stolen, or more often, borrowed by people and never returned, but actually lost? By me? Not so much.
Nothing. Losing things is for losers.
Are you trying to insinuate I’m irresponsible, Meh? Well, are you?
Well my bicycle was stolen yesterday off of the rack on my car. The last thing I remember loosing was a 4mm T-handle allen wrench.
@cutzer243 Sorry, that sucks. A lot.
@cutzer243 Was the bike/rack held on by 4mm Allen bolts?
The last important thing I lost was my job. My tools were all “lost” (along with all the parts to the furniture I took apart to put in storage and the pieces to an 1964 melodian I was fixing along with the box that had all my pot and pan lids), but since this stuff was stolen while I was putting things in storage I am not sure that counts as lost.
that was supposed to be 1864 melodeon…(as my grandmother’s and I think her parent’s or grandparent’s as well - mom can’t remember).
I was going with ‘my temper’ but I’m pretty good at keeping that in check. Let’s go with the softball game three weeks ago. Though we may have won that, we kind of suck at keeping score.
I lost my surface book charging cable. I went to bed and my surface book was plugged in in the living room. I got up, ran to a PT appointment, came home, ran back out to pay the IRS, came home and my computer was where I left it on the couch… But no cord. Asked the kids… Called hubby at work… Checked around the house in case a dog or cat got it wrapped around a leg while playing formula 1 and pulled it out. Nope! Never did find it. And those beasts are $100 to replace. First the IRS then Micro$oft. It was a painful day.
Golf ball.
Technically it was a job, not my only one at the time.
Otherwise I’d have to go back 20+ years to the time I lost my wallet. I tend not to lose things these days, though until recently I thought I’d lost my … sunglasses. (Ding!)
Well, I do lose my memory of things all the time. Pretty sure I haven’t forgotten losing something, though.
Lost my eye glasses. Left them at a hotel in Florida. Hotel lost and found staff and manager won’t return my calls. Frustrating because I know exactly where I left them and they certainly didn’t look like trash, so the housekeeping staff probably stole them to sell on ebay or something. I offered to may shipping to mail them back to me, but no response. Jerks.
Headphones. Always headphones.
My temper. Damned Epson R1900 wasn’t communicating properly with the computer and it was only printing out a quarter page at a time.
An hour and a half later it was fixed, then I borked the HP laser printer’s communication line with the computer.
While my boss was standing there waiting for me to print out UPS shipping labels. Yeah, okay, it was my husband. But still.
Berry, berry, berry bad time to be around me.
I lose stuff all the time. Fortunately, I’m pretty good at finding it so they don’t stay lost. My last “big one” that stayed lost was my heavy winter coat. I was out of town at a conference, where I went to many different rooms. Cold in the morning, warm by afternoon. Didn’t think about it until going home.
The funny thing is I just did lose my literal marbles… little balls… oh wait… little glass balls. Still not better? I give up, they apparently rolled off on their own.
Lost a car key in the park a couple of years ago and couldn’t find it. Had to walk home and get the backup key. I posted signs at the park with a $25 reward in case someone found it but no luck. I left an inexpensive hoodie with large sentimental value in a hotel last month. Fortunately it was a high end hotel that has a return service. It cost me more than the replacement cost for shipping but it was worth it. I left an expensive sweatshirt in the Uber that brought me home from the airport and we’ve been texting back and forth to get it back. Unfortunately she rarely Ubers and lives 20 miles away in a part of town I never visit due to insane (for my part of the world) traffic. I was in a bad mental and emotional state on that trip last month and all kinds of stuff got out of my control.
I lose umbrellas constantly.
@Kawa They have a bucket of free ones where I work…at least I assumed they’re free to take…
@medz
@Kawa Yup, I’ve probably lost the 10 this offer is making in sunglasses over the course of my life. My speed record was a birthday gift to myself; lost it on the way home.
permanent loss= sunglasses (before I started buying Dollartree cheapies and don’t care now)
best ‘temporary’ loss= I went to Copper Mountain to go skiing once and managed to lose my car keys (only set I had brought with me of course…). Went over the trails and ‘off run’ areas we had skied with no luck (gee… big surprise there…) Asked at the main lodge ‘lost and found’ yeah… like that was gonna happen… and BY GOD it did. Someone had found them while skiing in the same grove of trees off the runs, picked them up and actually turned them in! A-freaking-Mazing!
(of course, now in similar critical situations, I always have an extra set available.)
@chienfou
(Don’t trust me, ask someone who actually knows.)
I have been told that the UV coating on inexpensive sunglasses wears off after a few months, or sooner.
@f00l hmmm, that’s interesting…I do know that polycarbonate lenses are inherently UV blocking…
My wallet was lost in the mail - on its way back to me after I left it at my brother’s in Saginaw. I thought I’d miss losing my Social Security card. But it turns out you don’t need the card. I never got that replaced. That was in 1963.
@sligett My mom lost mine when I was a little kid, but I needed an actual card to apply for my retirement and pension startup, so I had to get a replacement. I also was required to provide the actual card at a tax prep help site. I went almost 50 years without one and needed it twice in the past couple.
Four husbands…and counting.
@Tbird333 lost as in “sorry for your loss” or lost as in “move on loser…”
I picked job even though I won’t lose it until next month.
@Ignorant I won’t star your comment because this is sad. I hope things work out.
@elimanningface aww thanks, I’ll be fine.
Technically, my job. I have 9 or so more months to find another position in the company or I’ll be terminated at that time.
I did lose someone else’s keys on a ride at universal. It was cheaper to pay someone to drive roughly 5 hours roundtrip to bring a spare key instead of paying to have the computer reprogrammed and getting one key.
Last time I was at the park, I was just a wee bit paranoid that I was going to lose my own.
Not necessarily a most recent, but a biggest deal: was traveling around Europe during spring break in between terms of a school network I was attending over there. Bought a EuroRail pass in while at one campus in England and took all my luggage, etc. to the next campus in Austria. While in Austria, I could not find my rail pass, and had to go buy another one (about $300) before I could start my travels.
When I got back home in the states 3 months later and started unpacking, I found the original pass tucked into one of those semi-useless flat pockets on the side of my laptop bag.
I lost a boot once. A single boot. I think it was the left one.
I was reading a book in my home office. Went to do something else. A few days later went back to book but it was gone. Turned the office upside down to no avail. Husband even looked through the garbage. And I can’t remember the name of the book but the author’s written many, many books so don’t know which one it was in order to replace it. Really annoys me.
Debit card. Luckily nobody used it.
My cat!
@ragingredd Oh yeah… I forgot about that
I had a cat that showed up at my house when I rolled in from work at 2330 one night. She was totally emaciated, but super friendly. Took it to the vet to get checked out, spayed etc. once I convinced the missus that it would be an outside cat (she is allergic).
All was great, even built her a ‘cat-house’ out of insulated foam board and put a kitty heater pad in it that she seemed to really like.
All was well until we went out of town for a few days a few months later. We left out food/water and had Mom check on her from next door. When we got back we couldn’t find her that night, then the next morning we found her under the porch. Looked like she was hit by a car, so back to the vet… fractured femur, broke pelvis, abrasions… 4 weeks later got her back minus one back leg.
She did fine until one day a few months later, she decided to take a powder and disappeared. Not sure if she moved on to some other residence, or if she got eaten by a coyote across the street or whatever. Never did find any sign of her…
–Sigh–
@chienfou Good on you for stepping up while she was with you.
Lost a Loving Companion
@amy01 That’s never easy. My condolences…