Not bike related, but on a similar line to someone ELSE losing my things...
Years ago whilst in a house share, I bundled all my clothes into three black bin liners to take down the launderette - and left them in the hall, intending to take them down when I got back from work.
This was a Tuesday.
However, rather than coming straight home as planned after work, I ended up crashing at a mates after some ales, borrowing some threads off him in the morning and going straight in to work.
This was Wednesday morning.
The bins where I live get collected Wednesday morning.
You can see where I'm going here I'd imagine, but suffice to say that one of my house mates didn't realise the bags contained my clothes and put them in the wheelie bin thinking, reasonably enough, that they were rubbish bags that someone had been too lazy to put outside...
I got home, with a hangover, but no clothes.
Cheers Carlos, you git.