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My wife can't find her passport and we're leaving for London tomorrow. We are fucked, aren't we? Hahahahaha!

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:01 (twenty years ago)

This is a request for advice and sympathy, though it might not initially look like one. We need to buy a safe or something.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:02 (twenty years ago)

Seriously, there is no other way of leaving the country...right? not legally?

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:03 (twenty years ago)

Could someone please lend us a cessna?

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:03 (twenty years ago)

Do any of you own a cannon or giant human-sized comedy catapult?

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:04 (twenty years ago)

Failing that...do you know any good forgers?

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:04 (twenty years ago)

just keep looking, it should turn up. At least it always does when I panic and think I've lost mine.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:05 (twenty years ago)

2.5 hours and still no joy. We only have a 1bed place with no storage!

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:06 (twenty years ago)

This is the stuff that marriage is made of.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:06 (twenty years ago)

when did she last use it?

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:07 (twenty years ago)

Has she thrown away or given away any purses/wallets?

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:07 (twenty years ago)

look inside an envelope

― rainy (rainy), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:07 (twenty years ago)

There's this page but I have no idea if it's what you'll be able to use:

http://travel.state.gov/passport/lost_us.html

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:08 (twenty years ago)

She said she had been keeping it in her underwear drawer...I mean...DUDES! =o

"Woman organize stuff like this"

She may have used it to get a CA driver's license?

No she has not thrown away bags. She is a hoarder...

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:08 (twenty years ago)

Thnaks, Ned - checking that out.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:09 (twenty years ago)

She said she had been keeping it in her underwear drawer.

I keep mine in the drawer above the underwear drawer. Not her underwear drawer, for obvious reasons.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:09 (twenty years ago)

Adam - go to a consulate or passport centre IMMEDIATELY.

Passports can be reissued very quickly, usually either for an extra fee or if you have proof of travel. They might give you a grilling or do a background check over the lost passport but its for yr own protection really.

Thats how it works in Aust anway. I used to work at the passport office :)

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:10 (twenty years ago)

Also, if you had a visa in it you needed, well erm then you might be screwed, as it can take longer to arrange those.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:10 (twenty years ago)

It is 9:15pm in California, Trayce. But our flight leaves at 4:30 pm tomorrow. Maybe that is what we will have to do.

No visas - I am the visa holder, and all is copacetic with me.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:11 (twenty years ago)

Well you probably will have to, to get a new one that quickly unfortunately. I dont believe temporary papers can be issued in lieu or anything :( But if you go first thing in the morning you might be arright. If theres a 24hr helpline for that link Ned posted, maybe call and ask?

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:12 (twenty years ago)

Mind you this is all based on my knowledge of Aus immigration and passport laws. I dunno if the US are more/less strict.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:13 (twenty years ago)

And good luck either way!

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:15 (twenty years ago)

tx! :(

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:15 (twenty years ago)

Well apparently the 24hr helpline is closed between 5pm and 8pm EST, which makes perfect sense.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:16 (twenty years ago)

The US is way more strict, I'd guess.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:17 (twenty years ago)

y'know, just in case the RNC didn't reming you, SEPTEMBER 11th and whatnot. I think I'm just gonna post SEPTEMBER 11th over and over again:

SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:19 (twenty years ago)

there, I feel better already.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:19 (twenty years ago)

I don't!

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:27 (twenty years ago)

Yeah way to cheer Adam up H! ;P

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:27 (twenty years ago)

It's okay.

No wait, it isn't.

Yes...it is.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:27 (twenty years ago)

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:28 (twenty years ago)

I think I need to get really drunk.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:28 (twenty years ago)

oh come on man, be happy, you're going to Europe where nobody gives a shit about that crap. The two times I've been to Spain since were great because I didn't have to hear some idiot Republican rattle on about...you guessed it...

SEPTEMBER 11th!

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:29 (twenty years ago)

Yabut with no pisspot, they ain't goin' nowhere.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:31 (twenty years ago)

hahaha MAKE THE WIFEY STAY WHILE YOU HAVE FUN YURPIN' IT UP.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:32 (twenty years ago)

Right now she is making panicked phone calls to her mother in Indiana, poor woman.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:33 (twenty years ago)

good thing Indiana's on Central Time.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:33 (twenty years ago)

It will all be alright.

― rainy (rainy), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:34 (twenty years ago)

hahaha

h, I am trying not to entertain that possibility...or is it the stuff dreams are made of?

xxpost

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:34 (twenty years ago)

don't tell her I said it!

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:35 (twenty years ago)

Nothing in the kitchen but half a bottle of tequila...and an old portobello mushroom.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:35 (twenty years ago)

Eat the mushroom!

Wait no I was kidding.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:36 (twenty years ago)

Maybe it's magic?

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:37 (twenty years ago)

Use it to lure the Keebler elves from the cupboard.

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:38 (twenty years ago)

eat one side the mushrrom and you can grow small enough to travel without a passport

― rainy (rainy), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:38 (twenty years ago)

All of this stress time was meant to be spent in music geek heaven, loading a bunch of new stuff onto my iPod for the flight. Aaaaah, just the thought of it.

hahahhaha these are all of course brilliant suggestions!

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:39 (twenty years ago)

And I will be trying each and every one of them as the desperation grows.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:39 (twenty years ago)

seriously how big is your place? And when would've been the last time she used it?

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:40 (twenty years ago)

oh shit, adam, this really sucks. you have my sympathy. i had a similar situation once where i was applying for a new passport way too late and my guarantor was rejected two days before my flight! i had to run around town looking for a doctor or a mayor who would claim to have known me for more than two years! then i ended up picking up my passport two hours before my flight

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:44 (twenty years ago)

one funny thing, though, was that i was waiting at the passport office and i decided to read my book as there was a long line-up. it was a couple of minutes before i realized i was reading "the meaning of treason" by rebecca west!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:45 (twenty years ago)

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Hey, I'm ALL for that. Spencer, whenever you read this...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 3 September 2004 19:49 (twenty years ago)

(And of course hurrah for Adam and Sarah! Now, let us plot the death of Expedia.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 3 September 2004 19:49 (twenty years ago)

Ned, do you think we'd kill each other???

and YAY for Adam and Sarah!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 3 September 2004 19:50 (twenty years ago)

Ned, do you think we'd kill each other???

Don't be ridiculous. WE'LL KILL EVERYONE ELSE.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 3 September 2004 19:52 (twenty years ago)

Ned, will you do all the crazy stunts??? If so, let's sign up!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 3 September 2004 19:53 (twenty years ago)

My unique plan will involve a creative body double.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 3 September 2004 19:53 (twenty years ago)

I now really, really, REALLY want to see Ned eat two pounds of caviar.

(Spence, if Ned is a no-go I'll definitely teram up with you.)

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Friday, 3 September 2004 20:28 (twenty years ago)

(I'll even TEAM up with you!)

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Friday, 3 September 2004 20:28 (twenty years ago)

Wait, two pounds of caviar? Tell me where the down side is to this, that's a reward.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 3 September 2004 20:52 (twenty years ago)

hey adam did you still get screwed on the ticket?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 3 September 2004 21:07 (twenty years ago)

Yay! :-) Most stressful thread ever, though.

This flipped me out so much I have now gone & checked on the location of my passport for my trip in 6 weeks: still have it. still valid. Not that I have hotels in Geneva or Paris or train tickets between the two yet. :-P

― lyra (lyra), Saturday, 4 September 2004 03:18 (twenty years ago)

Btw I am completely serious about Ned & Spencer trying out for the Amazing Race.

Harrumph... JBR and I would trounce anyone here on the Amazing Race, including the caviar.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 4 September 2004 04:51 (twenty years ago)

The four of us will just have to have a caviar eating competition. OH DARN.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 4 September 2004 05:03 (twenty years ago)

My money's on the passport being in the car's glove compartment, put there (for safekeeping!) when they left the DMV. Or maybe left at the DMV.

― nickn (nickn), Saturday, 4 September 2004 05:45 (twenty years ago)

So if Ned and Spencer go on the Amazing Race, how will they label your relationship? "Internet friends"?

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Saturday, 4 September 2004 14:32 (twenty years ago)

Oh, you're both DJs, right?

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Saturday, 4 September 2004 14:35 (twenty years ago)

Way to go, adam!!! I've got several stories along these lines, but I don't think any of them worked out this well.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 4 September 2004 15:28 (twenty years ago)

Don't beat yourself up, Tracer. I like you being over here.

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 4 September 2004 15:30 (twenty years ago)

Oh, you're both DJs, right?

Hmm. "Men About Town"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 4 September 2004 15:34 (twenty years ago)

Oh, I'm glad there was a happy ending!

Sorry I won't get to meet you this time Adam :(

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 4 September 2004 15:39 (twenty years ago)

"fancy men"

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 4 September 2004 15:55 (twenty years ago)

"ILXORZ"

― nickn (nickn), Saturday, 4 September 2004 22:55 (twenty years ago)

But Ned, what if you had to shave your head for the fast forward?

― rainy (rainy), Saturday, 4 September 2004 22:59 (twenty years ago)

When my brother was going on holiday last year, he totally couldn't find his passport and ended up going to the South of England rather than Spain. What had happened was that he had taken it to his bank some months before and THEY HAD PUT IN THEIR SAFE. Fools. Didn't they think he might want it back? They had handed him all his papers and stuff, so he assumed his passport was in there as well and thought no more about it. He never remembered until after he had cancelled his flights. But what sort of bank muppet doesn't go "oh, Mr R*** left his passport here, let's phone him and tell him because it's the sort of thing he wouldn't want to lose", instead going "I know, I'll not bother mentioning it to him, I'll just put it in the safe and forget about it for six months". Twunts.

(hurrah that this scenario worked out better for mr and mrs adam)

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 4 September 2004 23:26 (twenty years ago)

i'm pretty sure i've lost my passport. i think i lost it in the airport. i'm not going anywhere soon, but i should really do something about it. apparently al quaeda are specifically looking for south african passports, with US and euro connections. mine's got both. and my lastname's rather arabic-sounding. if any upcoming terror is blamed on a mitch, i'm posting this so as to clear my name. or do i now seem MORE suspicious?

― m. (mitchlnw), Saturday, 4 September 2004 23:27 (twenty years ago)

"lastnamewithheld" is arabic sounding?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 5 September 2004 00:50 (twenty years ago)

it's all down to the inflection.

― m. (mitchlnw), Sunday, 5 September 2004 01:43 (twenty years ago)

six months pass...

yes, thats right, its my turn now:(

i have till wednesday. they wont issue a replacement before then. so i have 5 days to find it.

i think i threw it away by mistake

― charltonlido (gareth), Friday, 18 March 2005 10:56 (twenty years ago)

Jesus, well at least this thread tells you how to go about getting a new one.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Friday, 18 March 2005 11:13 (twenty years ago)

i found it!

― charltonlido (gareth), Monday, 21 March 2005 13:09 (twenty years ago)

Back when I worked as a library shelver: one day, going round the stacks, I picked a book off my trolley and a passport fell out. Ten minutes later, I was back at the service desk, and this woman comes up:

"Um, this probably sounds a bit stupid, but..."

"You were using your passport as a bookmark and returned it by mistake?"

"How did you guess?!"

― caitlin (caitlin), Monday, 21 March 2005 13:13 (twenty years ago)

once had a brand new passport turned back at the door by idiot landlord's idiot friends when the postie asked for a signature for the recorded delivery, two weeks before a flight to america for which i'd already bought tickets. spent the entire next day trying to get through to passport office. the irony being that if i hadn't paid the extra for recorded delivery everything would've gone a lot smoother.

― koogs (koogs), Monday, 21 March 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)

five months pass...

We NEVER found it, you know.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Monday, 22 August 2005 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

Mine never turned up either. Not even after I cleared out my whole studio to move.

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 22 August 2005 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

It's been sold to terrorists you know

― Frankist Swedheadium, Monday, 22 August 2005 22:28 (nineteen years ago)

If there are terrorists that really look like my wife and can use her passport, they are the most wonderful terrorists ever!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Monday, 22 August 2005 22:30 (nineteen years ago)

Does your wife have a beard?

― Frankist Swedheadium, Monday, 22 August 2005 22:35 (nineteen years ago)

actually, no

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Monday, 22 August 2005 22:36 (nineteen years ago)

Staple your passports to yourselves now, while you can still find them

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

I'm still thinking about trying out for The Amazing Race!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

Ned? Dan?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

http://lostlinks.net/images/oceanicair/passport.jpg

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

I reported mine lost so that the terrorists could not appropriate it; not sure if the INS or whatever it's called these days capably got the message.

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:59 (nineteen years ago)

two years pass...

Someone stole my passport out of my car at last year's Boomsday.

― roxymuzak, Monday, 3 September 2007 18:44 (seventeen years ago)

fuck a boomsday

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 3 September 2007 18:58 (seventeen years ago)

This thread is reminding me that I need to get a new passport before I skip the country in a couple of weeks. Shit, have I left it too late?

― The Real Dirty Vicar, Monday, 3 September 2007 19:37 (seventeen years ago)

!!!

― Rock Hardy, Monday, 3 September 2007 19:58 (seventeen years ago)

If you do it in person at the passport office it's pretty quick, mine arrived within the week. You should do it now though. Do it now!!!

― ledge, Monday, 3 September 2007 20:11 (seventeen years ago)

... it ain't cheap though.

― ledge, Monday, 3 September 2007 20:11 (seventeen years ago)

I've lost mine twice in the last five years. IDIOT. Best was when there was no way I could get a new one in time - but it had been recently renewed and I found out that you can travel on a cancelled or expired passport if it expired less than a year ago, or something. So I swanned around with my old, obviously cancelled passport with a huge chunk snipped off the corner. No-one batted an eye except for one woman who nearly didn't let me back out of Spain but then thought "ah fuck it".

― ledge, Monday, 3 September 2007 20:18 (seventeen years ago)

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