12/8/2023 Question of the day

[petrea_mitchell]

Lost and Found Day: Have you ever lost something important to you and thought you would never get it back, but then you found it or someone returned it to you?

Nothing memorable enough to answer this, no.

A kinda important thing I lost once was my badge at the 2021 Kumoricon, but by the time I realized it was missing it had been returned to Ops.

(I've been on the other side of that story, too. One evening during the 2005 Worldcon, the SO and I were taking the train back to our hotel when I spotted a badge that had fallen on the platform at an intermediate stop. [ETA: Actually, now that I think about it, I think it had fallen in the train and that's why I picked it up, the person who dropped it wasn't going to be able to come back to the platform and retrieve it.] I grabbed it and then the SO turned it in to Ops the next morning. There was a nice thank-you note in a later issue of the newsletter.)