last thing you found & kept

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I would like to know what is the most recent thing you found and kept? Things you exchanged for (ie including things bought with money) don't count.

― haloist, Tuesday, 28 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

A Pin with a picture of a face of an angel from a painting by Raphael with a cigarette burn precisely on the nose. It was in my dryer with the darks when I took them out from the laundrymat on 9th Avenue and 39th Street.

― Fake, Tuesday, 28 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i left my heart in san francisco (actually buenos aires) and my pants in las vegas (actually santiago del estero, but who's counting)...if you see her say hello.

― Queen of the Mentalist Gs, Tuesday, 28 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My friend's brother's sock turned up in my bedroom. Ed (friend's brother) has never been to my house and lives miles away in Plymouth.

I also found a silk scarf. I made it into a top.

― Anna, Tuesday, 28 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

do you wear or otherwise use the sock now?

― haloist, Tuesday, 28 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

oh yes.

― Anna, Tuesday, 28 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

RickyT and i found a bookcase in the street! so we nicked it cos we live in an unfurnished flat and have a lot of books. if anyone needs any furniture actually, come down our road as there's always stuff just left outside - countless fridges, the odd oven, vacuum cleaners, shelving, random bits of wood, sofas, chairs and even a bathtub!

― katie, Tuesday, 28 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I found an old Geezer Bus pass about a month ago with £20 stuffed in the wallet.
I've tried to track him down by Directory enquiries, asking in the bookies I found it outside, tried a friend of a friend who has access to a scary Police database. He has an odd name (Mr R Lotto) so I thought it would be easy to find him - I've even rung other Lottos to see if they know him but no joy.
I haven't so much kept it as not taken it to the Police yet
What started off as me seeing a chance to do a good deed has ended up with me feeling guilty for not turning it in sooner.
What would you do?

― Simeon, Tuesday, 28 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I found a mobile phone on a train the other day and was planning on being v.nice and returning it straight away. Alas they had it cut off before I could note down the address they'd left on the voicemail, or find out the number for it by dialling myself, and I didn't fancy dialling a random name from the phonebook and asking whose it was without even having the phone number. Also I doubt the usefulness of returning it after it's been IMEI blocked. So I played Snake until the battery ran down, and it's now sitting on my shelf as a waste of technology.

The welcome message on it was set to "Dreams can come true", but whoever set that didn't even let me.

― Graham, Tuesday, 28 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

re: What Katie said I'm planning on wandering through the bin piles when all the other students move out to find anything useful. I bet it will all be drunkenly collected traffic cones and piles of empty vodka bottles.

― Graham, Tuesday, 28 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

A master photocopy card.

― jel --, Tuesday, 28 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

A used plectrum in the street outside, um, um, some venue in Manhattan. My darned memory. Pyth to thread?

― Mark C, Tuesday, 28 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I didn't fancy dialling a random name from the phonebook and asking whose it was without even having the phone number

Was there not a 'mum' or 'home' number in it?

― N., Tuesday, 28 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No, just random phonetically spelled names.

― Graham, Tuesday, 28 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Apart from things my ex-flatmate left behind: an old electronic valve which I found in a deserted cottage near Callanish in the Outer Hebrides.

― Caitlin, Tuesday, 28 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

A Big Johnson t-shirt, clean, in my husband's size. He wore it for a while until it ripped.

― Christine "Green Leafy" Indigo, Tuesday, 28 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It was outside The Continental at Astor Place, Marks. The Klassiest With A K venue in Manhattan. Apart from maybe The Pyramid.

The last thing I found and kept was a $20 bill on 9th Avenue during a street fair. I had to be near Port Authority for a dance performance and I hate going above Herald Square, so I consider the $ fair compensation. And fare compensation. Oo somebody stop me.

― Pyth, Tuesday, 28 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Caitlin's little photo essay thing, (of which the link above is a part) I thought was very interesting.

The last thing I phound & kept was an item of girlie goth jewellry at a local bus stop. I saw a bit of a peugeot nameplat whilst cycling home last week. It said "EUGE". I wish i'd picked that up.

― Norman Phay, Tuesday, 28 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You should call them saying WAZZZUUUP!!! and pretnd you are the guy that owned the phone

― Chupa-Cabras, Tuesday, 28 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

A key. Not remarkable in itself, but it was a piano key from an abandoned upright lying near the Thames in Chiswick.

― dan, Tuesday, 28 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

a locked, keyless padlock of the girls' diary or skool locker type. i put it on my keyring along with Afro Ken and something about Elegant Trousers. i have a box in my room brimming with magpied bits and pieces - foreign coins, keys, colour slides [!!!], a couple of discarded Pay 'n Display carpark tickets from the parking lot between my house and town, a spent Hamilton => Ngaruawahia ten-trip concession pass, sundry movie stubs, bus tickets, train/ferry luggage collection tags and those annoying red 'save ten tickets and get a free ceedee' tickets from some local rekkid store or other, that i always lose my pile of when i get to 7 or 8.

i = TIKKIT COLLEKT0R! or PRIZEWINNING MENTALIST!

― petra jane, Tuesday, 28 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i found a little pair of barbie glasses on the sidewalk which now live on a skull shaped bead which sits atop the fish's jaw-bone claws

― Ron, Tuesday, 28 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

a pouch of tabacco.

― di, Tuesday, 28 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

duckling found a huge space invaders sign which she keeps on her doorstep to make everyone jealous.

― di, Tuesday, 28 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

yeah

― ducklingmonster, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

also, on the way to the crocker's folly a couple of weeks ago i found a green plectrum and kept it. plectrums seem to gravitate to me!

― katie, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"A used plectrum in the street outside, um, um, some venue in Manhattan."

how could you tell it had been 'used'? a 'used' plectrum? it sounds soiled.

― Wyndham Earl, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

This shiny stretchy purple top that my flatmates assure me is what farmer's daughters would wear out on a night in town around four years ago. Still cleaner than the rest of my clothes, tho.

― Ess Kay, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

a gold sachet about 4 inches by 2 and a half, stamped with the nestle logo and 'Experimental Formula F' or something like that, found on the pavement in Fallowfield, Manchester. I pinned it to the noticeboard in my flat.

― misterjones, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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