In Actual Fact has a good lost passport story. I’d have a good one too, from a few years ago, but I didn’t know it was lost. A couple days after returning from a trip to the States, I couldn’t locate my passport. It couldn’t be that far away, I obviously had it in my hand when I entered the country. I assumed I had misplaced it when unpacking, and that it would eventually show up.
After a couple of weeks, it hadn’t shown up, and I submitted an application for a replacement to the consulate. They called me to say that they had my old passport, so I wouldn’t need a new one. Someone had found it at the airport parking lot and had put in a mailbox, and the post sent it to the consulate. Which goes to show that sometimes when something is missing, maybe you really have lost it.
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Thankfully the flight was one of those €21.21 for the flight (return) + €45.10 for tax and other costs, so I wasn’t too distressed. I was just glad to get the passport back – it took months (and an inordinate amount of hassle) to get a passport last year – and cost more than €66.31.
And yeah, it was that same “but I had it in my hand yesterday, it must be somewhere” feeling as I ran around emptying dustbins trying to find it, in the knowledge that the plane left in 2 1/2 hours…..
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