OK, where is it?

My passport.

I've fucking looked *everywhere*.

I normally keep it in a safe place that it never moves from along with
a few other bits and it's gone, along with my driving licence...

I don't think it's been stolen or else other stuff would've been nicked,
too and it's not in any other places I can think of. The only other
thing is that I used it for some form of ID as it's missing with my DL
but can I remember what used it for or the last time I used it? Can I
****, which is why I'm asking for suggestions of where it could be.

Arse. I can get a replacement but it's going to be fucking tight as it's
not long before I travel and I don't want to pay a gazillion quid and
sit in an office all day with stroppy bitches behind glass and stroppy
bastards in queues.

 

I imagine you've already had a poke around the sofa...

 

Clearly not. I've lost mine twice in recent years. The first was about
six weeks after my big prang, when I finally got mobile enough to
think about going iinto the office occasionally. Couldn't find the
fucker everywhere, and assumed it must have got lost en-route to
hospital, perhaps a medic checking it and dropping it somewhere.

Living abroad it first needs reporting top the police, so we trundled
into Basel, I lurched (still wearing the external back/chest frame)
into the cop shop and sat with a rather nice female copper for ~30
minutes while she typed up the report form and got official copies
done etc.

Then I got up to go, put on the mountain jacket I'd brought with me
and patted its pockets as we salked out the door. Guess what, there
was the fucking passprt, where it had been from a couple of weeks
before the prang. Fucker.

Second time was just a couple of weeks back, but I'd simply left it at
the flat where we'd been at the weekend. But I was convinced I'd had
it since then, so spent a oucple of fruitless days turning the house
and office upside-down for it.

The moral? Simply this - it'll turn up, but not until you've been
inconvenienced to the maximum and probably forked out the money for a
replacement.

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When was the last time you were away? Sounds like you've used them
( holiday/work trip/whatever) and just not put them back as normal.
What case do you normally use when travelling, or are they stuck
inside a jacket pocket from previously? I always forget to take my
passport out my jacket pocket and end up scrabbling around for ages
before I remember :-(

 

This could all have been avoided if the UK had required ID at all
times...

D.

 

Try any of the the bars and restaurants on Rue de Rive, Nyon. That's
where I always seem to lose mine and a colleague seems to have picked up
the same habit.

 

Same here. And as I rolled into Dover Port to board the ferry for the
recent French Run, it occurred to me that that was precisely where it
was ;-)

 

I've got it.... along with your credit card details.

Tell you what.... its fucking sunny here in the Seychelles.

 

Try in your desk drawer at work, that where mine turned up after I had
absolutely *gutted* my house looking for it. Kind of gave away the
surprise birthday trip to Rome for SWMBO when I was frantically
tearing things apart looking for my passport....

 

Get a wife (secretary) She _never_ loses anything.

Mis-places stuff, forgets stuff, can't find stuff for a while, but Oh
No, nothings _ever_ [1] lost, though she does "put stuff down and it
'moves'!"



[1] Apart from, as you say, Passports ...

... and Door keys, car keys, bike keys, shed keys, Insurance Forms,
Premium Bonds, Lottery Ticket (would have won ~£100) car spare wheel!!!

 

suitcase , stuffed in with all your mankies jacket pockets , swmbo put
it away safe cause your an untidy so so (or punishing you )

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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Fucking hell, that's impressive.

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The spare wheel? She had a puncture, sorted out the spare, wheelbrace
and jack, which _did_ impress me as I'd shown her what to do maybe 8
years ago on a different car. She then took the punctured wheel off,
put the punctured wheel back on, left the spare by the side of the road
and drove home with the car "feeling a bit funny, like as if the spare
was already punctured" !!!

Fortunately it was only a few (about 5) miles away ... but she didn't
know which road or where on the road if she'd found it, she'd left it
on!!

As you say, I was well impressed ...

 

Actually I hadn't because I didn't think it would be there, I've looked
now and there's no passport but I did find £2.17, an assortment of pens
and a blue Stagg 1mm guitar pick.

 

Ace wrote:

[Lost passport]

I have a feeling you may be right and it'll turn up after much
inconvenience, forking out money and then when I get back it'll be
sitting there on the table in plain view...

 

That's what must've happened. I think the time I honestly remember
seeing it was when I was getting the piss ripped for having a photo that
made me look like I should be in a loony bin (Broadmoor).

I've checked every jacket I own, even ones I've not worn for some time
and I've even looked under the bed (wth would it be doing there?!)

A Percy would say: "A most perplexing mystery"

 

I expect I'd lose more than my passport if I went there.

 

Have you opened a new bank account recently? Needed it to prove identity?
It'll be with the guff the bank gave you. BTDTGTTS.

 

Thinking about it, as it's the driving licence as well, have you
applied for something that involves lots of ID recently (bank account,
credit agreement, new mobile phone etc)?

 

Just looked again, not a sausage. I'm going to give it up I think and
accept the inevitable that it will eventually turn up but only after
I've spent the next three weeks looking for it.