Have you ever lost something, and then found it 10 years later?

Yes, I found my favorite purple cow from when I was four when I moved houses when I was fourteen. It was awesome. And one of the little paintings I did when I was a kid that I’ve remembered better than some things I’ve spent days perfecting. I think I drew it in like 15 minutes. :)

Congrats on finding your thing. What was it?

My integrity…

lol, a purple cow, that sounds like something out of a children’s story.

My parents borrowed my two sets of jewelry pliers to install a chandelier, and after that I never saw either of them again. I looked, and complained, and threw tantrums, and they looked, but no avail. I got some new ones, but they were really cheap, and not nearly as good, and every time I did any work, i would wonder what happened to my original pink and black pliers. I almost started to think they were a figment of my imagination, and I was fairly convinced I would never see them again. Just tonight I wondered if my parents broke them, and then threw them away so that I wouldn’t find out or something.

Later, while I was cleaning out the guest bedroom of my mother’s house, I found several cardboard boxes underneath a desk in a corner, and in the very back one, were my pliers. Other than that, the box was empty.

Total happiness!!

I have a neckless that is of great value to me and I lose this once every decade, it seems. But I always find it somehow. Now it’s gone again and I haven’t seen it for the last four years…

i have a ring that i haven’t seen in a long long looong time, jazzie. i hope i find it somehow too!

Dad?

I recently found an old friend again after thirty years.

not 10 years later, but about 5. i had a CD that i swore i lost in the beginning school in junior high, and i recently found it in my cd case that i swear i searched hundreds of times. weird.

Stil looking for most of my lost stuff. Looked for a lost friend (of 45 years) for 5 years and found her 2 years after she died of CA. Damnit!!

My virginity?

@ Mizuki I hate to break this to you, but you ain’t never gonna find that one again!
@ Cardinal I’m so sorry, that really sucks!

My old Boy Scouts pocketknife! Somewhat the worse for wear, though…my parents moved recently, and it was in an old trunk of mine. Memories! my rusty little madeleine.

My husband’s troublesome grandson came to stay with us for a couple of weeks when his parents ran out of patience. He was naughty and (at 17) a bit foolish, but I like him; we all had a good visit. After he left I couldn’t find my mother’s rings, which had always been in a special hiding place. I talked it over with my husband but we never asked the kid about it because it wasn’t a sure thing. I wasn’t absolutely sure I’d left them in the drawer I was sure I’d left them in, if you see what I mean.
Five (not ten) years later I found them in a box I’d put them in SO THAT the kid wouldn’t accidentally run across them.
Glad I never spoke to him about it.

@SoapChef: Says who?

@asmonet lol Good Lord, what will they think of next? I wonder if it would make me feel sixteen again?

IMHO, even hymenoplasty can’t make you a virgin again…that’s just not how it works. you did it, and it’s done. you’re not a virgin anymore.

(that’s the general ‘you’, not anyone here in particular, of course)

Yeah, once peen hits vah jay jay, it’s over. You’re fucked. To be indelicate.