More Bad Karma

My bad karma is at it again! I really don't think I'm that evil to warrant all this nonsense.

I'm leaving for five weeks in Fiji in a couple of days and wanted to take 350 pds stlg I've had lying around since my last trip to London, as backup funds. Yesterday I separated the stlg bills from the coins, stored the coins in a wallet along with spare Euros and put the coins back in the drawer where all my left-over foreign currency bits and pieces are kept. This morning I decided to pack up my travel handbag, looked for the stlg bills only to find they had completely disappeared from the face of the earth. I am SO SURE I left them on the bureau along with all the other things that have to go into the handbag.

I have gone through every handbag and wallet I own, 2 or 3 times, including the foreign coin collections, unpacked and repacked both the checked bag and the carry on bag - nada, complete disappeared. Checked every room in the unit so many times I could probably do it blind by now. Nothing.

Why do I do this to myself? I was in all day yesterday so I doubt anyone has broken in and filched the lot. Shades of the getting-to-Japan fiasco of last year; I hope that hasn't set a precedent.

Just needed to rant.

Are you into modest superstition? Take a glass, turn it upside down, and stop looking! Within a short time, you will be drawn to where you left it! Let me know if this works for you!! (smiles)

NO - you have to stand in the middle of the room and announce, quite loudly, "I've looked everywhere but II can't find my sterling notes" - preferably to someone in the room (at a pinch, someone on the phone will do.)
Within seconds, you hand will be on top of them, proving you are an idiot. (Well, it always seems to work for me - and my friends tell siimilar stories.)

But i thought you were coming to England in September. Have your plans changed?

have you found it yet? how much was it worth.... hope it turns up before you leave, you lucky person.... and i know how you feel. I would misplace my head if it wasn't screwed on.

Once I lost may passport. Had it out ready to travel - couldn't find it anywhere.
the day before departure, I got so mad at myself I completely lost it and started throwing stuff around. Even picked up the 6 X 8 Persian carpet and hurled it across the room - and there was my passport, on the floor, under where the rug had been.
Not saying you should start throwing the furniture round, but............

(((((((((((( whatsoff ))))))))))))

Poo happens sometimes.

I am becoming gentrified in the use of the English language! lol

LOL! Seems it's been a combination of everything everyone advised and/or did themselves.

I was dog-sitting my neighbour's little toy Malti-poo yesterday, but she doesn't like to be away from her home so she just sat in the hall (I have an L-shaped hallway), something she always does when she wants to leave. But instead of staring at the entrance door as she does, she was staring intently at the store room door to the right of the entrance. I took her downstairs then decided to check out the store room to see if there was something in there that had caught her attention, like mice or something. As soon as I opened the door I had an epiphany and checked the lightweight carry-on daypack I had originally intended to take but switched to another slightly heavier but larger one. And lo, there was my cash, in the stored daypack. As I rarely, and I do mean rarely, use that particular daypack the money would have probably stayed there until it rotted away. The pup must have ESP; I, obviously, am brain-dead.

Spent the next few hours cleaning up the mess I had made by throwing stuff out of drawers, unpacking both daypack and suitcase, and now I'm all set except for a few last minute bits and pieces. And I have not really over-packed this time - wonders will never cease! Taking the middle sized case and the day-pack because I need that to hold the meds and two cameras.

Yay!

I hope you rewarded her in an appropriate manner. :>))

It's been said many times before - "dog (even if not yours) is man's best friend".
Enjoy your trip.

Hmm, my reply to go_2 has disappeared. Is this a trend? I rewarded her with her favourite treat, blueberries, but she wanted to go home so badly she wouldn't touch them. Normally she stores them in her mouth then scratches at the door so she can go home and presumably bury them in the arm chair.

my worst travel related 'where the hell is it experience?' panic attack happened in a hotel room in Antigua. I was leaving in a couple of hours for Barbados.... and i couldn't find my bloody passport. i was calm, at first, .... but then i started tearing my luggage apart... didn't take long, because it was pretty small. My luggage, my day pack, my pockets.... on the bed, under the bed, in the bathroom... lets face it... there aren't many places to look in a cheap hotel room... and no passport. I have never been so panicked in my life!!! finally FINALLY, looking through my day pack for about the tenth time again.....and i found it, hidden in one of the many zippered pockets i so love, but had not looked in. It was in the perfect place to keep a passport... and i hadn't looked there.

LOL canayjun, I can so relate to that panic ... I once 'lost' my passport on the approach to Heathrow. When the passengers started collecting their stuff from the overhead bins the chap behind me tapped me on the shoulder and asked if the passport he found under his seat!!! was mine. It was. I forgot I had plopped myself into the wrong seat when I boarded (something I seem to do quite regularly) but have no idea how the passport found its way under the seat.

In my world, some things never change, more's the pity.

Hi,

Maybe you should take that dog travelling with you.

I don't think she needs to, Brax.

Watsoff is normally the most level-headed of travellers Like me. (haha) :>))

Hi,

He he, I was not doubting that (in her case anyway) Just imagine though the cash that could be made with a dog that clever. Lost passports, air tickets etc - folks in despair. That bloodhound could make a fortune.

LOL to you two!! Everything is packed now, so keeping fingers crossed nothing else goes walkabout.

We're all doing the time warp agaaiinn."
Just a jump to the left."

My foolproof method is look for something else.

Every time I thought something had been stolen... it turns up again. and I embarrass m'self.

youtube/c2cam

Coast to Coast a. m. covers time slips and lots of stuff. Always interesting by long time researchers.

The show goes all tight, stateside. Bt youtube culls out the breaks and commercials. And we can scroll back to say,"What th' Hell did he say?!"

OP you may go back and see its where you looked before.

I always repack thrice, the night b4 cast-off.

Must try that, gawk, I've just misplaced a small bottle of Tylenol which I was so sure I packed because I had transfer them from the large container to a smaller one. Sigh. I wonder if my luggage will lose me on the way to the airport ... 2 days to go! Yippee!!!!

I'd sure have origeonal labels on that stuff. To prove its not....dare I say it?

Yep, they just went from a large bottle of Tylenol to a small bottle of Tylenol.