Have you ever forgot your purse in a store or restaurant?
Did someone take it? Or did you get it back?
My husband just cashed his check and had over $600 in his wallet. We were going camping so we headed to wal-mart for supplies. As we were checking out, he noticed he didn't have his wallet. I figured he had left it on his lap and it fell out as he got out of the truck. I was right, someone returned it with all its contents luckily!
A few years back, before I carried purses, I was looking at something in the store and set my wallet down on the shelf, walked away, not even five minutes later noticed it was not in my hands no more. I started to freak, I then retraced all my steps and finally found it (untouched!) on one of the bottom shelves of the toothpaste. I so learned my lesson and I now carry a purse everywhere I go.
I left my purse at a Freebird's in Austin, TX. I got it back perfectly fine, but when I was younger, my bff and I found a wallet in the parking lot at Wal-mart, we took the money out and left the wallet exactly where we found it(on top of the person's car)... to this day, I feel horrible about it. But I KNOW I would NEVER had done it if I was all by myself.
I have a couple times (man, that's a scary feeling). Thankfully, they always happened when I was younger & didn't really have important things in my purse yet. The one time I left it in a mall when I was about 4 or 5, it got stolen....I was SO upset that my cute little strawberry shortcake dolls had been in there & were gone forever.
When I was 15, my parents & I were on a trip & stopped to eat at a Wendy's. I accidentally left my purse in there. I didn't realize until we had left & were probably a good 25 miles away. My dad (sweet man that he is) actually turned around to go back & get it & it was still there! Amazing!
Ughhhh, last week I did this TWICE! Once at Arby's and once at Baskin Robbins :( I felt like a complete idiot, especially when I went back to BR and the guy behind the counter said he had tried to deliver the purse to me but discovered that I no longer live at the address on my Driver's License. Wow I was shocked that he would be nice enough to do that, but embarrassed as well !
I have a horrible memory of a time when I left my purse somewhere. I think I was about 13 years old (maybe 12) and I was just starting to really use a purse. My family lived overseas on an army base in Korea and we would come home every summer to visit my dad's family in Michigan first and then my mom's family in Washington DC.
That summer, we were leaving to go from Michigan (the upper peninsula) to DC. We stopped at a Wendy's for lunch and then drove about 100 miles when I realized I didn't have my purse. Turned out I had left it at the Wendy's. My dad and mom argued about whether to turn around and get it. The only reason they even considered it was that it had my government ID which was very very important. We ended up not going back, but the restaurant was kind enough to mail the purse to my grandfather's house in DC.
My dad didn't let me live that one down for a long time.
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- owensmom34
on Mar. 17, 2010 at 8:46 AM