Just now my wallet was not where it always is.
Searched for 10 minutes, where is it. Have I lost it?
Thinking, thinking, thinking, removed trousers last night, slung them over the bicycle.
Glance at bicycle, there on the floor, behind bicycle, on the floor is my wallet
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Iāve been lucky so far when I couldnāt find my small wallet. About 10 years ago, I had a favorite pair of gray slacks. Loved the style, the feel. One drawback, no pockets. When I would go grab lunch, I used my pockets to carry the small wallet. When wearing those special slacks, I would throw the wallet into the plastic bag with my food. Then Iād go back and enjoy rushing through lunch for a deadline, throw away the box, then out went the whole bag, trash box with wallet.
Usually around after I drive home I start feeling my bigger purse for the small wallet. Its happened twice where it dawns upon me around 5:30 after a commute home that Iāve thrown out my small wallet, the one with the cards, and money.
Luckily, this has happened twice and both times Iāve driven back to the office, dug in the big trash can in the kitchen and both times beat the janitors!
Now a good moment on getting more forgetful, I hold grudges less. The trade offs 
For anyone wondering, since those days, my favorite slacks have been retired, and Iāve upgraded to nothing but pocket slacks! 
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A great sense of relief when going back to where you realised where you threw it out and it was there.
Several times I left my wallet at the supermarket. Went back and luckily an honest person handed it to staff.
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Iām glad you share this story. Its always good to see not alone in some veryā¦hmmmā¦interesting times
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I have never lost my wallet (so far) and only once lost my keys. it was a day of mild panic.
Normally my wallet and my keys are always in my pocket, When I change trousers/shorts each morning they are transferred from one to the new pair, I never leave them anywhere.
However on one occasion many years ago I reached into my pocket for my keys to open the garage and they were not there. I couldnāt believe it! I had been out that morning but had obviously used the keys to let myself back in. Naturally I searched the house from top to bottom, enrolling my then young kids and wife in the search, even searched the garden in case I had dropped them but they were nowhere to be found.
A long while later a very worried me found them - they were still in the internal dead lock of my front door which most of the time is left open so the lock is against the wall so you canāt see the lock. I must have left the keys there when I came home and unlocked the deadlock but I have no idea why. It is something I have never done before or since after unlocking the door I return the keys straight to my pocket
It has never happened again.
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[quote=āBruce, post:5, topic:102638ā]
still in the internal dead lock of my front door which most of the time is left open so the lock is against the wall so you canāt see the lock. I must have left the keys there when I came home and unlocked the deadlock but I have no idea why. [/quote]
This is something I do more often than I would like. If I can not find my keys in the house I open the front door and there they are.
I have even left them in the front door overnight.
My keys are always in my handbag. As I have a very large collection of handbags I do have to remember to transfer them each time I change bags!
I once drove into town with the pram and baby in the car. Put baby into pram, walked around the town, went to the river to sit and watch the ducks, then happily walked home!
Ooops
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Mrs Fox is a nightmare, Iāve nicknamed her āWhereās me?ā Because practically every day she scampers round the house shouting āWhereās me phone?ā āWheres me Keys?ā āWhereās me purse?āā¦
I tell her to have a place for everything, and as soon as you arrive home put said item in itās placeā¦Keys on the nail, phone in itās charging station, and purse in the purse drawerā¦?
Well I have a special drawer for my walletā¦But she tells me Iām too pedantic! Well everyone on the forum knows that is not the caseā¦
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I have one of those small metal hinged box type wallets.
All that goes in it is one debit card and a couple of folded up notes, a tenner and fiver perhaps. The wallet almost always goes in the left front jeans pocket with my keys, mobile phone in the right, any deviation from my routine and then I risk messing up.
Maybe thereās a bit of the spectrum in more of us than we realiseā¦
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That happens when you get OLD Bretrick 
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I have always carried a small handbag no matter where I go. Not much in it but a change purse, 2 credit cards, tissue, keys, lipstick/balm, and peppermints. So far I have never left it anywhere. When at a restaurant, itās over my chair arm, or on my knee. I always push in my chair when leaving, so I see it.
So far, so goodā¦erā¦lucky.
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I did once leave my shopping bag behind in a shop ā¦ 
(stupid nit)
Iād walked off up the road and suddenly thought, āargh, whereās my shopping bagā.
Retraced my steps.
I canāt believe I left it in the pet shop, sitting next to the bird seed and fat balls. And there it still was ā¦ how lucky is that!
Thatās on a par with chaps driving off with their petrol cap left on the roof of their car.
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Seems as though the majority of people have forgotten/lost their purse/wallets at least once. Great relief when we spot it at the place we left it.
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For me itās keysā¦ One time I drove to a school function, then drove home. Arrived home and could not find my house keys. (I keep keys separately). They werenāt in my purse. They werenāt in any pocketsājacket, skirt. Drove back to the schoolāgot the custodian to let me in. Searched my desk, filing cabinet. Nope. No keys to the apartment. Drove to the apartment. Had my neighbour buzz me inācalled a locksmithāyup. Cost me a bundle. Went to bed. Got up the next morning, and drove to school. I saw something shiny between the driverās seat and passenger seat.
Yupā¦my keysā¦
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Losing/misplacing keys can be expensive.
I lost my car key and it cost me over $600
OMGā¦ did you ever find them???
No. Pretty sure they fell into the waterbed of the plasma cutting machine I operate at work.
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Having recently returned from abroad I changed a large amount of foreign currency into sterling, put it in an envelope and thought I had put it away in a āsafeā place. A few days later I was meeting friends and needed some cash - looked for the envelope and couldnāt find it anywhere! I was late meeting my friends so I picked up my handbag, checked to see how much cash I had and found the envelope in one of the zip compartments. Total relief (envelope is now sitting in my safe!!) Seems I am having more of these āsenior momentsā (anyone know the address of a good home for the bewildered?)
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Yep, certainly doā¦ The OFC forum, you are living the dream!! 
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You can say that again Bretrickā¦
When I was a courier back in 2007 I get a phone call at 7:30 pm on a Friday night, from some distraught woman in Bessacarr, about four miles up the road from me. Her husband had been playing golf down in Bradford on Avon (near Bath) and locked his car keys in the boot of his rather expensive Mercedes. He had been quoted almost one thousand pounds for Mercedes to source another set of keys to gain access to his motor at the golf club, and it would be Monday.
He was due to fly to Europe at midnight on a business trip (luggage and passport in the boot) So it was at the most utmost urgency that I collect the spare set of keys from his wife and run them down to Bradford upon Avonā¦200 miles awayā¦
We agreed a price, far cheaper than Mercedes, and off I went. I made the trip in good time and handed over the spare set of keys. I was rewarded with Ā£150 for a couple of hours work, saved him a packet thoughā¦Shouldāve charged him moreā¦
