customers leave the darnedest things

[Victoria J]

I'm more concerned about what co-workers leave behind.

I helped a former co-worker clear out his desk (er, well I hung around and vultured all his stationary) when he was leaving.

When he'd taken everything left in the drawers were a tub of vaseline and a card for a private detective

He swore they weren't his - I still believe they were.

Victoria J

[Kirachan]

when i was in japan i ate at a tiny ramen stand and when i was trying to pay i spilled my coins all over the floor. the man running the stand helped me pick them up, i paid and left. then he came running after me because he found a 10 yen piece i missed (think 9 cents). I thanked him profusely (in my broken japanese) but it still baffles me that he would go out of his way to give it back to me, the japanese are very honest. (btw, you don't tip in japan).

[the_std]

When he'd taken everything left in the drawers were a tub of vaseline and a card for a private detective

(Psst. Vaseline can be used as a moisturizer as well as lube. I have to wear it on my eyelids to keep them from drying out in the summer. It also makes good lip protector. So he might not have been a horn dog. Or he might have been! Who knows?)

[Victoria J]

(Psst. Vaseline can be used as a moisturizer as well as lube. I have to wear it on my eyelids to keep them from drying out in the summer. It also makes good lip protector. So he might not have been a horn dog. Or he might have been! Who knows?)

I know - though the stuff makes my skin crawl so I can't believe people use it for either.

I think I do really believe him about it being in the desk before he started using it, and suspect it belonged to a woman using it as lip balm or moisturiser. It was a desk in an open plan office, I can't see that he could get up to anything too, er, intimate with it. I just like to tease him.

The private eye card I am convinced was his.

The same guy came back and worked for us again briefly. This time when he left I found a pair of my own tweezers. I use them for the occasional () hair on my chin, and try to keep them in my bag. He shaves, but he also has a nostril hair thing going on - I celebrated recovering them and then ended up throwing them away.

Victoria J

[cinema guy]

My mum leaves things in restaurants all the time - usually either her handbag or her glasses. She left her hand bag in a restaurant in Denmark, so my dad ha dto go back and ask for it with the asistance of a phrasebook. She's left her glasses in the same pizza restaurant twice.

[staticradio]

ATM woes

*Turns red and raises hand*

I left my Debit card in the ATM not 6 hours before I had to leave to go to an Anime Convention. I checked my wallet to make sure I had everything and couldn't find it. Finally called the Grocer I had visited right before (to get granola bars for my trip) and they said they found it. I picked it up and was only an hour late getting to my hotel room (a 10 hour drive. Not doing that again for a while, yikes).

I left my ATM card once at a bank machine independent of my own, and thought of it at the last moment after leaving the building. I went back to look for it, and found nothing. I then went to my bank and cancelled the card. I then went back and I asked a bank teller, and thankfully the machine shreds the card if left behind. I felt a little foolish going back and forth, but then I would've had to have been reissued another card anyway (unless stores accept millions of card shards as a form of payment).

[tropicsgoddess]

During my red eye days on the soft lines floor, I found

an old container of veggies and dip on the floor of the intimates apparel

a tampon (didn't appear used) under one of the infants clothing tables... (nobody wanted to touch that one AT ALL...)