Most of my co-workers and those who know me realise many one important thing about me – I tend to misplace or loose things.
Well I was doing some sorting last night, and I found this mint in a packet when I was in Chicago last:
Yup. A genuine Boeing 787 Luggage tag I got at the Boeing store in Chicago.
Now I could add it to the increasing amount of tags on my bags, but I’ve decided instead to give this one away.
But nothing is as simple as it ever is on GhettoIFE.com 😉
So to win this tag I’m after your “What’s the worst thing you’ve ever lost on a flight?” stories.
You know the drill – fill in your comment in the box below by Sunday 22nd July by 23:00BST
Boring T&C’s
- Entries close Sunday 22nd July 23:00BST. Entries received after that point won’t get included!
- One entry per person – a valid email address is required.
- Winner will be drawn by random.org
- 1 winner will win the luggage tag posted free to their location
- The winner will be required to submit their name, address and country so the luggage tag can be posted to them
- Everyone else will get a giggle out of what you’ve lost on a plane
- Oh yes, “clean losses” only (I do reserve the right to moderate if you’ve lost anything naughty. Of course post that sort of thing, and that entry is disqualified)
- My decision is final. So there.
I’m looking forward to your stories! 🙂
My Singapore Airlines Business Class Eyemask!
My shoe! I fell aslep during a trip to the US and woke up and one of my shoes were gone!! Thankfully, I had an extra pair of sandles in my carry on..I never did find it. I guess someone had a shoe fetish lol.
I can’t remember losing something, but a few years ago on my first international flight I got up and was about to enter the aisle to deplane when the guy behind me pointed out that I left my $2,500, 4 month old laptop under my seat. whoops.
Phone. Which happened to contain all the photos from the trip since no one had a camera.
Winter coat and car keys. I was wearing my hoodie, and my coat was stuffed into that tiny, useless overhead on a CRJ. I never wear both, but I was heading to LGA and PHL in the middle of winter. The second I entered the terminal, I remembered my coat (we were at LGA). They wouldn’t let me back to the plane, but they called down to check for it. They never turned up.
My Retainer. I was an exchange student enroute from JFK to BOM. 36 years ago….thank goodness my teeth have not moved too much since.
Temporarily lost: My coat (containing passport, boarding passes, wallet, mobile phones, money). I noticed it was not in my arms just after getting out the door of a 747. At the last minute I had rested it on the seat while waiting for the isle queue to move, however now I was outside the aircraft, there was an entire 747 worth of passengers to exit before I could get back in, and back to my seat to get it. Thankfully crew were sensible and let me go round the loup of the far side isle, which has emptied first, and joing the outward queue from a galley cross over further back. Still, with a short connection, that is a mistake you only make once – there are a LOT of people on a 747!
My lunch, if you know what I mean. (I was probably 5 or so)
My Dad, I won’t expound :).
Headphones – didn’t have any music for the long return flight!
My front tooth!
Seriously … I was chewing a pen on a flight from BHX to Turkey somewhere.
My tooth broke off, I blacked out for a while, and then ordered a beer.
Had to go a whole week with no front tooth!!
thumb drive with my 3/4 done thesis for PHD in psychology. How life works, I fouond out when my laptop with the thesis crashed 2 days later…….
ME! When I was about 8, flying unaccompanied from San Diego to LAX, PSA put me on the wrong flight. My parents, waiting in LA, grew increasingly agitated. I deplaned in PHX wondering where my folks were. No cell phones or sophisticated computers, so many phone calls later, I was finally en route PHX-LAX.
My children’s electronic bag with a DS,PSP,iPod and laptop on a flight from Ottawa.Left it under my seat.
At the young age of 8, I lost the dinner my mom bought me in the airport. I looked at the FA with (I’m assuming) the saddest look when I was told that the bag was gone and I would have to suffer with Economy food for the 8 hour flight.
My textbook that I needed for class.
I didn’t lose anything on board. There was only once when I left my jacket in the CX Pier Lounge. The agent was kind enough to forward it to me with the next flight.
Dec 2005 – Lost my onward boarding pass (business class, if I may add) for an international connecting flight (with a short transit time), left behind on the previous (domestic) leg. Man I had a rotten time trying to get those guys to reissue the BP and let me board.
My Bose headphones! Will never make that mistake again.
2002: Palm Pilot VII on an ANA flight from Osaka to Tokyo.
I did get it back with a nice letter apologizing to me for turning it on to get my information to mail it to me.
A favorite child’s toy. As soon as it was realized, we returned and the crew graciously searched and found it. Child happy!
Lost the battery charger to my noise cancelling headphones. Replacement was costly!
Thankfully, nothing yet! I’m sure it is bound to happen eventually though.
I travel 200K a year and because of all the different climates I carry, or shall I say, carried, a beautiful black Prada jacket that really did well in many different non-winter climates. I arrived from DFW-ORD, came (or should say “laying over”) home and three days later, packing to go to LHR, I began looking for my jacket, which incidentally cost me over a grand. I stopped closed my eyes and tried to retrace the last time I saw the jacket….my last flight, in the bin NEXT to my carry-on! Ugh! I went early to the last and found, telling my story, nut NOT saying it was a Prada. I swear to you, she brought out at least fifty black jackets, some from the 80s (huge shoulder pads) but none were mine. Some airplane cleaner’s son is enjoying his new jacket. Moral of the story, don’t spend money on things you travel with you may end up losing.
Fuzzy bunny slippers 🙁