Lost and Found
Posted Monday, June 16, 2008, 7:07 PM by Lonely Planet
You were too busy with your phrasebook trying to figure out how to ask if this was your bus stop, too engrossed in the festival to realise your bag was unzipped and your camera vulnerable. Running late for your plane and left the charger in the wall? Journal under the pillow? Sunnies on the dashboard?
As anyone who's ever lost or left behind anything in the throes of travel will know, it can be anything from mildly annoying to downright devastating.
But it can also be an arcane glimpse into the universe's very bizarre brand of synchronicity when, finally eligible to redeem those karma points you've been accruing over the years, the items somehow make their way back to you.
Been reunited with long lost belongings? Sustained a devastating loss? We're listening.
P.S You might be pleased/appalled to know that there is business to be made out of unclaimed lost property that slips between the cracks of aforementioned karmic system.
Jenni Kauppi
Labels: Karma, lost and found
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One year my family went to Greece on holiday and at the airport on the way back someone left my mother's hat on top of the luggage we were checking in.
Recovered from the luggage carousel at Gatwick: four family holdalls and one undamaged hat...
i just had a rough experience on mykonos at paradise beach last week! i was putting on sunscreen in a bathroom stall and had hung my passport wallet over the tp holder. my friends came in twice, bugging me to hurry up. i got so flustered that - you guessed it - i left my passport wallet there! i remembered and was back in less than 3 minutes, but it was already gone. it had my passport, my seapass, my cash, and my credit cards! a kind-hearted worker turned it in within 15 minutes. i was only bummed that he'd decided to take the cash out before returning it; i was going to give it to him. what a relief though!
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