I had a little pen knife that was great for small stuff like opening packages and cutting string. I lost it maybe a year ago. A replacement is maybe $10 but I liked that one :/
I’d also be pleasantly surprised to find some data I know I have saved but cannot find
I think it would be cool to stumble upon something of archeological value. Like some ancient statuette, or something like a cuneiform tablet.
Lan Chi chili paste.
Office supplies or gaming stuff
Find where? At home? In someone’s backpack?
Anywhere it’s generally okay to look/find things
The last time I was pleasantly surprised to find something somewhere, I was looking through store shelves and found an old food I used to like, toaster muffins.
Packaged meals, wildflowers, an aloof cat, alcohol, a street performer, maybe a neat rock.
Nice snack I bought myself and forgot, and then finding it again later while browsing aimlessly.
Unless it’s at the bottom of a bag you haven’t used in months.
Might be good still, but it’s likely smushed
pussy is no where in these comments, what are you people thinking
Found within my own home/possessions, a jolly rancher hard candy.
Out in the wild, a geocache. I go searching for them intentionally on occasion, but I also just spot one while I’m not looking and those are my fave. Especially the really tiny ones, “oh, that bolt on that stop sign looks a little weird. Hey, it’s a nano cache!”
I also go hiking a lot and it’s always fun finding plants I have high confidence that they are edible. I cooked up quite a bit of wild fern this spring, now it’s berries and mushrooms.
Oh, I found such a thing three different times, yesterday! In a county office, an employee patiently, compassionately, happily helping an elderly lady with paperwork; at a takeout restaurant, a genuinely happy individual who graced me with a smile that would shame the sun, in it’s glory, an authentic wish for a great day and a hug, at another business, another absolutely fabulous smile from a spry elderly lady with the most brilliant gray hair.
I took the cargo hitch off my bike and set it down somewhere in the basement…
I’ve got a pair of vice grips somewhere in my flat.
It’s not even that big of a flat, and I don’t even have that much stuff. There’s no way I ever left the flat with them. Yet they’ve completely disappeared.
Oh sorry, i borrowed them to clamp a hitch i found to my bike.
My virginity.
A cat.
Info that allows me to break through any of the “brick walls” in my genealogy research.
I lost my friggin glasses two weeks ago, it’d be nice to find them.
Weird little drinking related story about finding my glasses from my college times: Got accepted for a PhD and wanted to party. Met a good friend and went to a Balkans party with loads of cheap booze. Wake up at 6am in a night bus out of town and can’t find my wallet on me. Run like crazy to the club/bar where the party was. Last people there let me search for my wallet. Only find my glasses in the bar toilet that I didn’t notice I had also lost. Lock credit card and go home happy that I at least found my glasses.
