We deliberately left phones and wallets behind

[blackcat20]

We dropped a passport at arrivals in HNL recently, had an official email advising us that they had it, before we even realised it was gone. Collected it from a QF agent at the check in desks, which we were waiting at because we missed our connection.

 

[OZDUCK]

My son and DIL were in Tokyo struggling to wrangle their luggage and 12 month son in a pusher onto a metro when the doors closed and the train departed with their baggage on board but them on the platform. The platform guard made a call and told them to go to the next station. They did so and there was all their luggage carefully stacked on the platform together with an elderly man who had taken it off the train and then got off the train himself to guard it for them until they arrived.

 

[ellen10]

My son left his expensive retainer (had recently had his braces removed) in a Denny's restaurant in Anaheim. It was at the start of a 4 week holiday. And we had spent a lot of money on those braces and a straight tooth line.

We didn't realise until we had walked back to our hotel.
Raced back to the restaurant. The staff checked the trash, no they couldn't fine it. I said can I look, sure they said. With my bare hands I searched through the trash, you can imagine all sorts of yukky stuff! The determined mother found it after spying his colouring in place mat and he had placed it on a napkin. The things we do for our kids

That reminds me I need to remind him of this on his first Father's day lunch at our place this weekend.

 

[VPS]

When I was a newbie traveller I left my passport in the safe at the hotel in Bruges and it was about a 20 minute walk to the train station. I think I was about two minutes from the station when I remembered so had to walk back to the hotel and retrieve it and then walk back to the station.

Last year I stayed at the Sofitel in Adelaide the night before a long trip so I could have the house all tidy for the house sitter.

As I got in the Uber to come home my phone said my airtag with my keys were still missing. Great Uber driver took me back and drove around the block while I went back up to my room and couldn't find them. Went back to the concierge and he showed me a photo and I had left them in the restaurant the night before. Pheww - the Uber driver got a nice tip