Finding stuff! Saint Anthony screwing others in your favor.

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I was in my University's library today, and on one of the shelves I found a CD of Boards of Canada's first LP. It was in the literature section, right around Fitzgerald. I already had a copy of it, but it's nice to have the original.
Should I have turned it in at the desk? I could still go back and do that tomorrow...

Anyway, what cool things have you found?

― Dan I., Monday, 11 November 2002 04:17 (twenty-three years ago)

i just vacuumed out an old rug and found a tiny diamante stud earring that has apparently been embedded in the rug for over two years and three moves, one transcontinental.

― felicity (felicity), Monday, 11 November 2002 04:27 (twenty-three years ago)

you should take it back.

― michael wells (michael w.), Monday, 11 November 2002 12:57 (twenty-three years ago)

I found a pound in a locker at work. The locker had stuff in it, but was unlocked, so I took the pound. Then later I found another pound on the floor, and then later another pound in the ticket thing at a station. I think pound coins are attracted to me.

― alix (alix), Monday, 11 November 2002 13:03 (twenty-three years ago)

i once found a small yet hideous rubber goblinhead in a tray of small green plastic frogs: i asked asked the stall-owner "how much is this?" and he said "20p" without looking, then looked closer, visibly started and blenched, and said "10p, 10p!!"

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 11 November 2002 13:43 (twenty-three years ago)

(The repeats in Mark's post are stunning, It's like he has backing singers)

― Graham (graham), Monday, 11 November 2002 13:47 (twenty-three years ago)

I was once walking near a clinic the day after a windstorm, and I found someone's medical file (dozens of pages' worth of records) scattered all the way down the block. I picked a few up. They were dated 1979. So of course I kept them.

I also found a very helpful Guide to Pennsylvania's Caves and Caverns in the form of a children's activity book that someone left on a stoop in Hoboken.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 11 November 2002 13:59 (twenty-three years ago)

I was always finding purses wallets and handbags, I alway took them to the police station or nearest responsible looking person though, coz I believed in all that karma and stuff - so I treated them like I'd hope my stuff would be treated if it was found. Then some bastard stole my handbag, so the next thing I find is mine! Not really, I wouldn't dream of it, I even feel funny going through lost property to see who it belongs to.

― Plinky (Plinky), Monday, 11 November 2002 14:05 (twenty-three years ago)

I found $20 in a parking lot, almost under my car. It was used to pay back my dad for $20 he had given me to buy a new bathing suit on a trip because I'd forgetten my old one at home.

― Maria (Maria), Monday, 11 November 2002 14:39 (twenty-three years ago)

When I worked in the university library, I was putting a book back on the shelf when someone's passport fell out of it. A while later, a rather embarrassed-looking girl came up to the desk and said: "This might sound a bit stupid, but..."

"You were using your passport as a bookmark and handed it in by accident?"

"How did you gu... oh, thank you"

― caitlin, Monday, 11 November 2002 16:38 (twenty-three years ago)

On the university computers it's possible to accidentally get to see other people's saved files, which is quite interesting. I mean, when it isn't incredibly depressing because of all the spelling errors. Here are some examples:
1.> > fais pas du tout de soucis pour toi... je suis sure que tu as des groupies a Cork!!!< <
2.hi, thanks for getting back.
*Its 4 bedroom flat,
*has two bath rooms - upstairs and downstairs
*big lounge and kitchen, with washing machine and dash washer
*garden in the front
*room up for rent is double bedroom
3.Main objective.
To transform the prose Fantastic Mr Fox into a play script.(I afraid I do not know how to put spaces between lines. duh. )

fascinating stuff.

― alix (alix), Monday, 11 November 2002 17:01 (twenty-three years ago)

I found a tooth in a pizza once. red letter day, that.

― g.cannon (gcannon), Monday, 11 November 2002 17:27 (twenty-three years ago)

I once dropped the house's rent check. I back tracked where I had been since I thought I last had it. I saw a white piece of paper fluttering on the back tire of an SUV with my Landlords name on it. Thanks Tony baby

― brg30 (brg30), Monday, 11 November 2002 23:07 (twenty-three years ago)

mostly i find hats

(as i am a Hatfinder)

― gabriel (gabe), Monday, 11 November 2002 23:14 (twenty-three years ago)

I found an old Chris Knox t-shirt at a Goodwill in Irving, TX. So OK I was shopping, but I'd say the odds are astronomical.

― Aaron A., Tuesday, 12 November 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My mother once found a cherry pit...in an apple pie.

The two best things I've ever found were a first U.S. edition of a book I'd been wanting to read (not in very good shape, but it probably was worth $8-10), and a $100 bill scudding along the street.

― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 00:10 (twenty-three years ago)

I once found a Corey Hart cassette lying in one of big round handwashing fountains. Saint Anthony, WTF were you thinking?

― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 01:25 (twenty-three years ago)

We once found a giant American flag. On top of a flagpole. That we had to, um, pull down and rip off. So it's more "stealing" than "finding" but you get my gist.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 03:45 (twenty-three years ago)

I have j lu (and thus maria) beat: I found $600 on the ground this summer. oh yes.

― Josh (Josh), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 04:22 (twenty-three years ago)

I've found a couple of books (handiest: Rough Guide To Greece, left on a wall at Delphi, perhaps as a generous gift to other tourists by someone who was about to depart), and a Rodney Dangerfield cassette.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 12:51 (twenty-three years ago)

I found $600 on the ground this summer. oh yes.

! Now if that had only happened to me, I could have replaced that very amount ripped off by an old housemate...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 18:09 (twenty-three years ago)

And I loaned nearly that much to a friend who won't be able to pay it back any time soon.

― j.lu (j.lu), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 02:57 (twenty-three years ago)

maybe it's because he lost it in st paul

― Josh (Josh), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 03:55 (twenty-three years ago)

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