OMG, the relief after a major panic! And it was my own stupid fault.

Witzend Well done for finding them what a relief.
I have been seen a few times going through my bin for things thrown out by mistake.
You where very lucky as my binmen arrive just after 6.30am.

Stomach churning panic moment! Glad it turned out alright in the end! ?

I think we’ve all had similar experiences.

Bad enough if you mess up something for yourself, even worse if you do it to someone else.

I can imagine the relief when you found them.

I can imagine first the panic and then the relief all too well.

I once realised, as I stepped on the bus to begin a European coach holiday, that my passport was still under the scanner at home! ? My husband (who was not accompanying me on the holiday) drove home, collected my passport then drove to a further coach stop to deliver it. The waiting time was excruciating, but the relief when he turned up in the nick of time was overwhelming.

Done that many times.

Such a relief to find them!

I wholeheartedly agree, it’s so much worse when someone else is depending on you.

Regrettably bin surfing has become a fairly regular event in our household. The two items searched for are a spoon and the knife. The culprit is DH who regularly throws the spoon away with the yogurt pot and his favourite fruit knife wrapped in a piece of kitchen roll with the debris left from the apple. I am not involved in this desperate search, neither do I say anything……….but I think a lot!

(Having said that, I still haven’t found my overpriced iPad pen, lost within weeks of purchase)

Strong cup of tea with sugar called for!
I hate that 'hot and cold all over' feeling when I realise I've done something totally ridiculous again. If only I knew the secret of remembering where that safe place is!

Oh goodness, I understand the panic then the relief.
We've had those 'passport moments', all sorted out in time thank goodness (with a major adjustment once!)

grannyactivist

I can imagine first the panic and then the relief all too well.

I once realised, as I stepped on the bus to begin a European coach holiday, that my passport was still under the scanner at home! ? My husband (who was not accompanying me on the holiday) drove home, collected my passport then drove to a further coach stop to deliver it. The waiting time was excruciating, but the relief when he turned up in the nick of time was overwhelming.

Oh Lord Grannyactivist! Talk about a phew moment!,,

Dd once went gaily off from Oxford to Heathrow, for a flight to Rome for work - only to realise on check-in that she’d picked her dh’s passport instead!

He drove down with it asap, but too late - she had to get the next flight.

Friends of ours who’d stayed close to us the night before a long haul holiday, only realised at Gatwick that their teen dd had put her and her younger sister’s passports - wait for it - inside her tennis racket case, and had then left said tennis racket at an aunt’s house - in North London!

Friend (the mum) phoned me almost in tears, saying the rest of the family were all laughing - they found it funny!

Passports were sent in a taxi, but again too late. The rest of the family flew, the two girls were put in a taxi to us and I put them on a plane the next day.

Witzend, I feel your relief after having done such a thing in the past. Well done for finding them.

what a relief when ou found the photo!

........trouble with a safe place is I soetimes can't rememer where that is when I want the item......but i know it's safe! ha ha

I am ALWAYS searching for things ..?

Hope they all come in time Witzend. DD1 going away on 8/4 and DGD had expired. They paid extra for it to be returned and have been panicking as it didn't show it was being printed. Thought they might have to go to Glasgow passport office but they don't do the fast track now so would have meant a longer trip. So relieved when it arrived on Friday.

Oh what a relief, your blood pressure must have been through the roof. Now, when you have calmed yourself, could you put your mind to where DH put his tablet when we went on holiday, pre-covid?

The things we do for our DC and DGC that we wouldn’t even do for ourselves!

Phew, what a relief the photos hadn’t ended up at the local tip!

We were lucky enough to win a holiday in a P & O competition many years ago. They invited us and the other winning couples to a presentation on a special sailing (in happier days) from Dover into French waters, where we’d have a champagne lunch, a tour of the bridge with the captain, the chance to take the ship’s controls… A limo arrived to collect us from our hotel and the chauffeur checked that we hadn’t left our passports in our room. We hadn’t - we’d left them at home in Yorkshire without even thinking that we’d need them. They bundled us into the same limo as the Chair of P & O and we were just waved through (and saluted).

Well done with your detecting skills Witzend always worse when it's someone else's property you mislay.
Time for a restful afternoon with a large G&T.

I once threw £150 in Christmas present money into the dustbin with wrapping paper. Luckily found all of it.

It has sent my blood pressure up just reading these stories. I have a similar one but don't want to relive it now.

I felt your panic reading your post!

I realised one day that I hadn’t seen a special diamond necklace and earrings that I had bought with money from an inheritance. I had forgotten I had wrapped them up “safely” in a couple of make up pads in a plastic bag, as I didn’t want to wear them coming home from holiday. Long story short - I had thrown the plastic bag away without checking inside and the bins had been emptied long since. O f@#&k. The only time I have ever claimed on my insurance but the sentimental attachment cannot be replaced.

I once tidied up my sons desk, clearing out old papers etc. once it had gone to recycling I found out there had been a cheque for £200 in there. I was so mortified. Never interfere again.

When my son was at school he went on a school trip to Berlin, returning in the early hours. Some time later after planning to take son and daughter to Florida I couldn't find his passport. I did the blame thing - "Why didn't you give it to me to put away safely?" He said he did, I said he couldn't have done as it wasn't in the locked box with the others. So I have to apply for a new one and put off booking the flights 'til it arrives. Flights then cost much more than they would if booked earlier. Thankfully we had the holiday and enjoyed ourselves.

Months later while having a sort out, the original passport appeared in a pile of my paperwork! He had given it to me and I hadn't put it in the locked box as it was late and I just wanted to go to bed. A very costly mistake and also entirely my fault! I no longer have charge of their passports and I'm much more careful with mine as a result!

A word to the wise: Never put anything in the proverbial SAFE PLACE!

My mother did this all her life and Panic Stations when she needed anything, as she could never remember where the safe place was!

If you must use the safe place method, have only ONE safe place. If anything is too big or bulky to fit in there, put a note of where it actually is in the safe place, so you have a hope of finding whatever it is that is hidden away when you need it.