[Magdalen] Help! Lost object

Molly Wolfmama lupa at kos.net
Thu Jul 23 22:27:19 UTC 2015


Yay!

The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. -- Mark Twain

> On Jul 23, 2015, at 5:45 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hallelujah! The lost is found! Thanks to all y'all, S/O who found it, and
> St. Anthony who probably got tired of being badgered! It was hidden behind
> one of the printers on my computer desk where it had probably fallen
> several months back, as its box is sticky from the sap of a very large
> plant that droops over it (and which I am NOT fond of!) so it was *just*
> out of my line of sight the whole time. Now I do not have to explain to its
> owner that I had misplaced it....TBTG.
> 
> Jay, breathing normally again
> 
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 7:08 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Mine is raised!
>> I've never had much valuable jewelry, but I did have an emerald ring of
>> my grandmother's that I knew was valuable, so when we were going to Europe
>> for three weeks, I wanted to hide it. Put it in a box of Band-aids and back
>> in the cabinet, figuring no thief was going to look there. Promptly forgot
>> all about it.
>> Fast forward many months. I was out in the backyard watching the kids
>> playing in the sandbox when I noticed something on my 4-year-old
>> daughter's finger. Sure enough...it was the emerald! I asked her where she
>> had gotten it. "Oh," she said, "I went to get a band-aid, and this was in
>> the box!"  Years later, I gave it to her, and she had it appraised--it
>> came in at $12,000!!
>> Could have paid for most of seminary with that...
>> 
>> Jay, I'm sure you've checked every nook and cranny you can think of. What
>> about pocketbooks? Tote bags? Inside the lining of a jacket pocket? Could
>> one of the cats have knocked it off a table and under a piece of furniture?
>> Did you ever have it with you at a craft show or at the gallery? Under a
>> seat in the car?
>> 
>> I'll storm St. Anthony for you, along with the rest of the Pub; we'll wear
>> him out with our asking...  Seriously, I know this is enormously stressful
>> for you, and I hope you find it soon.
>> Grace
>> 
>> On July 22, 2015, at 5:07 PM, Jim Guthrie <jguthrie at pipeline.com> wrote:
>> an think of
>> Everyone who has ever put anything in a place so safe that even you don’t
>> remember raise your hands. Hope you remember that safe place RSN Cheers, Jim
>> 
>> 


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