If you're a Muppet and you know it clap your hands [Left PP behind]

[Katie]

Haven't forgotten my passport yet, but one time we stopped at Toombul to grab some TimTams (rather than pay airport prices), and I realised I had forgotten my phone. So back home, and then straight to the airport. No TimTams that trip!!
So glad I live fairly close to the airport in BNE.

 

[oz74]

Can relate to that, when we all travel together its twelve passports I'm responsible for :!:

That's a huge amount of passports!

I subscribe to the theory that as long as we have passports and money anything else we can buy.

 

[JessicaTam]

I check my passport is in my bag the night before, then the next morning, then in the taxi, then at check-in, then in the lounge, then when I board.
OCD much? Well I haven't forgotten it yet.

 

[dfcatch]

My carry on bag for this week is also my work bag - passport is already coming to work with me everyday so there is not chance of forgetting it this week!

 

[JohnK]

I forgot my passport one time but I realised it in the M5 East tunnel and got the taxi driver to turn around at the airport exit.

Expensive taxi trip and it was touch and go to make the flight to New Zealand but luckily the flight was delayed.

Oh well....

 

[OATEK]

Spent our last day in London at Covent Garden many years ago, and got home to find my passport had been lifted during the day! Due to fly out the following afternoon, and spent the morning at the High Commission, and the photo I had taken at a booth near by left me looking like a desperate criminal! Definitely a "muppet" moment - what was I doing with it in my top pocket? My only excuse was that it was my first time overseas...

 

[Poisson]

Some years ago my then GF was looking at my passport on the way to the airport - "You look so young!"
Oops! Expired passport

 

[Paddy55]

Last time Mrs Paddy and I were in Europe together it was two years ago.

I was at LHR waiting for Mrs Paddy who'd flown QF F for the first time (award ticket )

She appeared and mentioned that after getting off the flight at LHR she went to the Ladies where she left her passport :shock:

50m on and she remembered, went back to the Ladies and it was still by the washbasin. Bullet dodged as I imagine Immigration might have tossed her straight back on a QF flight if she'd fronted the desk without it

 

[markis10]

You normally hear a lost passport announcement at SIN every couple of hours, seems to happen a lot although more often its the "owner of found property - passport" type announcements.

 

[parsonstrish]

Still stratching my head thinking where oh where did that passport go 3 yrs. ago at JFK. Checked in, had ice cream in eateries prior to heading to lounge. Did I toss it in the rubbish bin with the rubbish from table will always be part of the great unknown. I grabbed onto all and sundry (well, it probably seemed like it at the time) to be reassured 'happens all the time, will be waiting at gate'. It wasn't. Had to enter on my other nationality p/port. Now really OCD abt. p/port. Not a good feeling.

 

[BindiBratz]

Sometime WAY long ago in the last century . . . my first ever flight, when paper tickets were the only ticket . . . I had been entrusted with it (after heaps of persuasion by irresponsible 16 yr old BB, my mother gave in). We were half way to the airport when I realised that beautiful ticket I had been admiring at length, was still at home..!!! It fortunately turned out fine, with just enough time spare to turn around to retrieve it, but I have been paranoid ever since about leaving important documents at home.

Plead guilty to having left passport on plane on arrival though, and then having to get the assistance of staff to retrieve it and that was following an episode where I had left my laptop on a plane and that was following an episode where I left my glasses on a plane . . . oh dear, a bit sad really but as things happen in 3's it's been all good since then.

Dearest but quite elderly friends of ours were off on their dream cruise on the QM2, and were distraught as discovered on day prior to departure they could not find passports. Mr BB was there helping search, I was on the phone from other side of the country trying to come up with brilliant suggestions of where to look . . . all to no avail . . . it wasn't until their daughter came up with a suggestion (whilst on the phone from the UK) to look on top of the fridge..!!! We still can't work out why/how they were there but at least a good ending and they adored their cruise.

 

[serfty]

. . . it wasn't until their daughter came up with a suggestion (whilst on the phone from the UK) to look on top of the fridge..!!! We still can't work out why/how they were there but at least a good ending and they adored their cruise.

... maybe she knew her parent's basic habits ...

 

[gogo419]

A few years back mum and dad had a trip to Africa for their wedding anniversary. (Can't remember what number...

They get to got to PER international terminal, mum hands over her passport and the check in lady goes hmmm you don't look this young!?

She runs out not long after jumps in a taxi which was being driven by a young guy. Said you can have all the cash in my wallet if you get me home and back before check in closes.. It was a 60km round trip.. She made it back with a little time to spare.. Dad was not impressed and the taxi man made over $250 from that trip..

You only do it once!

gogo

 

[Pdl7]

I check my passport is in my bag the night before, then the next morning, then in the taxi, then at check-in, then in the lounge, then when I board. OCD much?

We call it the "Paranoid passport check". (Same for hotel room keys on the way out of the door.)

You only do it once!

Or more...

When my wife and i were living in the UK years ago, I had two passports (UK and Aus) and she had one. My wife did the paranoid passport check before leaving for Nice - yes we have the passports. In the queue at the EasyJet check-in counter, I see two Aus passports - Uh-oh. I need the UK passport to get in and out of the UK. So I had to get the train back to the flat, pick up the passport, while Mrs Pdl tried to book us on a later flight. You'd think we would have learned, but......

We were getting the last flight to Paris, out of Gatwick one evening, the flight was really delayed. (Do we have the passports? Yes we have the passports). We thought the flight was going to canned. (Entirely different story about people's behaviour when they don't get there way...) Anyway they rushed us onto the plane. We arrived in CDG at 1am and the immigration guys were mostly asleep. We got to the hotel, enjoyed the weekend there, headed back to CDG. In the queue to board, I have a look at the passports - yes, 1 Australian and 1 UK. But wait - they are both mine! Hmmm -this is going to be interesting. Mrs Pdl starts to get flustered - "what do we do?". Well, lets do nothing different until we get back to London. Sure enough the flight attendant checks both passports, looks slightly confused, shrugs and lets us on the plane. (To be fair it was missed by multiple immigration and flight attendants so far...) At London we walk up to the immigration desk and tell them the story - they shrug their shoulders and hand over a form to fill out.

Sometimes you have to do it more than once - or maybe I have some clapping to do. (Just call me Fozzzzzzie Bear!)