Lost and Found

Other than your virginities and God, what are the most significant things you have ever lost and found.

I'm thinking about objects rather than spiritual or moral properties.

At a Madness concert in 1996, I lost a ring my Grandfather gave to me when I was ten. I was moshing away when it slipped off my finger into the dirt. I fought like a tiger to get it back, but the myriad feet just trampled it further into the sludge and detritus. I have never forgiven myself for losing it, and I forever wonder if Finsbury Park's earthen tendrils still clutch my precious birth-right.

During a camping holiday in Gloucestershire last year, I happened to find a coin within the roots of an ancient oak tree. The mud had been churned up by recent flooding and the metal-detectors had been out in force, but by pure happenstance I noticed the relic amongst the sodden leaves. After a careful clean-up and a visit to my local expert, it was proved, without doubt, to be a coin dating back to 1620. I have not and will not sell the coin, although it is worth over one thousand pounds.

So, over to you -

 

Sell. The. Coin.

 

I think I can answer this one for ER - marbles - still MIA

 

Ponders, have a word with stopme, he'll get his metal detector on the case.

 

What are you on about dear?

 

No chance. I wipe my arse with twenty-pound notes.

 

I just wish you wouldnt spend them after- you should ahve sen the state of the one they gave me in Tescos in Stoke Newington last week

 

The stains cover up the lack of official watermarks.

Anyway, is anyone going to answer my thread's question?

 

Me and my brother lost a dog when we were kids and out walking it.

Doesn't bother me tbh.

 

found a 40" flat screen, €600, laptop, iPad3, 2 iPhones, and keys to a BMW 4x4, all in the same house too.

 

I lost my heart to a Starship Trooper

 

Granma Pendes brought me back a Michelangelo turtles figure from a holiday in the states just as the turtles boom was kicking off. I was the 1st one in my class to have the toy and every **** was jealous. When we went for assembly some **** swiped it from my bag.

After a lot of moaning to the teacher how important this was, a search was carried out and lo and behold it was in the bag of Jeffrey Scott, the trampy /smelly kid in our class. Of course he claimed it was a setup, but I finally got my precious turtle back.

I think we chased him after school for it but we were only about 6 or 7. Any older and he would have been sleeping with the fishes. Probably dead now anyway.

 

I lost my glasses at a men they couldn't hang concert once.

 

I had a really cool green felt trilby nicked off my head at a Clash concert at the Brixton academy. I ****in loved that hat too.

 

I lost my fall guy dinky when I was about 6. I blamed my younger sister though and proceeded to strangle her.


I found out you don't strangle your younger sister over a fall guy jeep. I was sore

 

Have you still got the turtle? I'll buy it.

 

Turtles all the way down?

You ****in are Terry Pratchett.

 

Lost an engraved zippo I got for my 21st off my brother on a bus.

I ****ing hate buses.

Was once at a party, everyone had ran out of drink so I KO'd on a box I was sitting on.

Woke up with a hangover, removed my jumper/pillow from the box and bingo, crate of beer - goodbye hangover.

Twas a great morning.