Lost my wallet :-(

[Yaworski]

I was off Wednesday so my daughter and I headed to the Sheriff's off to renew our Licenses to Carry Firearms (carry permits to everyone outside of Pennsylvania). Parked in a parking garage, walked across the street to the "Gun License Office" and was back at the parking garage in 23 minutes (according to the parking stub).

Paid for parking with my card, jumped into the car and headed home. Got home, changed, hung up my trou, and put my old LTCF in my dresser with the others dating back to 1981. Next day I had to Uber to work because my car was in the shop. At work I realized that I didn't have my wallet.

Now the hunt started. I called home and asked the daughter to see if I left it in one of the usual places. No joy. I checked with Uber and the driver said that he didn't have it. Called the parking garage and they didn't have it either. Dang!! Went home and spent three hours looking in all the strange places that it might have been. Nope. We had taken the daughter's car to the Sheriff's office so I looked all over it. No wallet.

I've been carrying a wallet for about fifty five years and have never lost one. Until now. A very strange experience.

Call the bank and stop the cards.

New AAA card needed. New BC/BS card needed. New prescription card needed. New Medicare card need.

Now, how do I get a new driver's license. I can do that on line. $46 for a replacement license. That's what I paid when it was new. I only have one year left before renewal but I have to pay the entire fee again? What a farging rip off!

Of course I have to get a new LTCF for another $20.

To make things even better, I had just gone to the ATM so there was $110 in cash in the wallet.

So to go along with the hassle of getting replacement, this exercise will cost me about $200, including the cost of a new wallet.

Of course there's the possibility that after I've gotten my new DL and LTCF and insurance cards and bank cards, that my wallet will turn up in an unlikely place such as the bird feeder.

Not looking for a solution, just wanted to rant.

 

[PRichardson87]

Sounds like you had it when you left the parking garage. Did you have it at home when you changed and removed the old LTC?

 

[Yaworski]

Sounds like you had it when you left the parking garage. Did you have it at home when you changed and removed the old LTC?

That's a good question. I really don't know the answer. I think that I may have taken my old LTCF out of my wallet at the Sheriff's office and stuck it into my shirt pocket. Then again, I might not have and I dropped it getting into the Uber, a neighborhood kid found it, took the cash, and pitched the wallet into the trash.

 

[PRichardson87]

Did you take it out to pay the Uber?

 

[Yaworski]

Did you take it out to pay the Uber?

No, that all happens on the app.

 

[PRichardson87]

No, that all happens on the app.

Ah, I've never used the service so wasn't sure.

 

[Ride1949]

Did you look in/behind and under the dresser? That appears to be the last place you saw it. Look s-l-o-w-l-y. I'm surprised at how many times I have tried to find a lost article, and when I slowed down, I found I had actually looked right at it and it just didn't register.

 

[Acorn]

I lost a wallet a couple years
I had a pair of basketball shorts on when my buddy called to go shooting.
Changed pants, grabbed my gear and off I went. Stopped to get a couple bottles of water on the way, no wallet. No big deal I knew right where it was. Except it wasn't. I looked for a year. I could not find it.
One day my wife told me we were getting rid of the old recliner in the game room. I flipped it over looking for something else I recently misplaced and saw my lost wallet jammed between the chair frame and the scissor mechanism in the recliner.
Apparently it fell down between the cushion and got wedged.

 

[Armybrat]

A couple of weeks ago my wallet slipped out of my pocket and was wedged in between the car console & bucket seat.

 

[Jeepnik]

I've "lost" mine twice. But got them back intact. One a Good Samaritan the other I back tracked and found it in the street where it fell out of my bike bag.

Hopefully, you'll get the old one back. Most of us have "stuff" that really can't be replaced in our wallets.

 

[Yaworski]

I'll continue to look. Now that I've ordered a new DL for $46, I'll find it in a pair of mukluks in the basement.

Thought of the recliner. Thought of the car seat. Moved the bed. Looked in the freezer. Checked the bird feeder . . .

 

[Cholo]

I lost a wallet when I was 17. I searched everywhere for at least a week. The 10th or so time I checked way down in an antique chair I had in my bedroom, there it was. I have no idea why I didn't find it the other 9 times I checked way down. The chair wasn't that big.

I've literally never carried a wallet in my back pocket since.

I hope you find yours.

 

[Watertender]

A couple of weeks ago mine slipped out of my pants and was wedged in between the car console & bucket seat.

That sounds painful!! Are you the man from Nantucket?

 

[GypsmJim]

I feel your pain.

I have a spare set of emergency keys for camp that I keep in the glove compartment. Also sets for other family member's houses. When we went hunting and my son drove with his truck, I took out the camp keys and put them in my suitcase. All the "regular" keys are on a ring in my pocket, and as it turned out I never used the spare set.

Three days after returning home I had to take my car to the shop. Naturally, I took ALL the spare sets out and put them on my bench in the garage. It was then that I realizes that I had not put the camp key ring back in the car.

Can't find it anywhere. My suitcase is empty. Not in the gun case or the beer cooler. Not in my ammo case. I have never lost ANYTHING before.

Now I'm ranting....

 

[ArizonaTea123]

Put an Apple Air tag in your wallet.
You're welcome

 

[Armybrat]

That sounds painful!! Are you the man from Nantucket?

Oops! I had better edit that to clarify what actually slipped out of my pants pocket.

 

[GasGuzzler]

Didn't have this on my scorecard.

 

[Yaworski]

Put an Apple Air tag in your wallet.
You're welcome

If I stay true to form, it will be 2080 when I lose my next wallet. Will an Air Tag last that long?

 

[ArizonaTea123]

If I stay true to form, it will be 2080 when I lose my next wallet. Will an Air Tag last that long?

Well no, you have to change the batteries every so often. I have AirTags on all my vehicles.

 

[Tenbore]

Be sure to check the refrigerator. You never know.

 

[jimbo1096]

I’ve lost my wallet twice in the last year. Ended up finding after a frantic search in the same place both times so now I know where to look
in my pants I wore the previous day down in the dirty clothes hamper

 

[Jeepnik]

As one who once lost his carry pistol and then found it in the safe where I left it, check your pants again.

 

[blume357]

Sort of my suggestion... got look again at the first place you thought it might be...

the aliens might have returned it by now.... has happened to me more than once....

 

[gjgalligan]

If I stay true to form, it will be 2080 when I lose my next wallet. Will an Air Tag last that long?

No but you are getting older everyday so you will NOT be staying true to form!

 

[Jeepnik]

No but you are getting older everyday so you will NOT be staying true to form!

Not so. I am sharper and smarter than I was as a youngster.

Now what was it we were talking about?

 

[vito]

Last Spring I went out for a ride on my motorcycle and about a half hour from home for some reason I felt my right back pocket just to make sure my wallet was there, and sure enough, it was not. I felt a sense of panic for the very reasons that the OP is now dealing with. I turned around and rode home slowly over the identical route, scanning the road, thinking that maybe I had hit a bump and the wallet had popped out of my pocket. Made it home with no wallet in sight and went into the house to take off my motorcycle boots and noticed something under the bed. It was my wallet which must have dropped when I was putting on my pants after having taken them off to put on thermal underwear before the ride. I will admit that the sense of relief was enormous. Turned what had been a so so day that had become grim into a great day by the end. So now, at 81, I can continue to say that I have never lost my wallet, or my keys and hope to keep it that way.

 

[Mauser9]

Losing a wallet just plain sucks. All the hassle one has to go through with replacing must have Id's and cards! Hope by some miracle ya get it back!

 

[davevabch]

I lost one a few years back. Now safe guard with a "Tile" and this wallet. I was also a victim of credit card theft and bank told me it was most likely from scanner from someone behind me in a grocery store line etc. My wallet protects from that. REID (I attach the hook directly to the pants Pocket for better concealment)


My card tile, can also be used to ring my Cell phone when I misplace it.

 

[Yaworski]

I may have told this story before but it is related to good Samaritans and wallets.

Back in college (about 45 years ago), I was in a class, looked down, and saw a wallet on the floor under the unoccupied seat next to me. I picked it up and looked inside, discovering that I knew the owner.

The owner of the wallet and I had a couple classes together and usually sat next to each other. I wouldn't say that we were friends but we were friendly and had worked on homework together.

I went to the nearest payphone, called directory assistance (remember that?), got his home number, and called him. I identified myself and explained that I had found his wallet. I told him that I could give it to him when I saw him tomorrow in class. He said, "Stay where you are, I'll be right there." Ok. It was a half hour drive for him to get to campus but I was at the library so I settled in.

The guy showed up, held out his hand, I gave him the wallet, he looked inside, grunted and stowed it away. That was it. No "Thanks man" or "wow, I was worried" or "Can I buy you a coffee?" It was as if he thought that I had picked his pocket.

I found a new place to sit.

 

[NC FNS]

Lost mine once, fell out of back pocket in one of those 400+ student classes at college. Someone found it, turned it in, and I got it back.
Got stolen from a locker room later, never recovered, got new license but there were so many hoops to get a new SS card that I gave up. Figured I didn’t need it. And I didn’t, until I moved to NC 30 years later. Apparently many of the 9/11 terrorists got driver licenses in NC because it was easy at the time, so NC started to require an SS card afterwards. Luckily, only took one trip to Asheville, and wasn’t as difficult as before.