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- Lucas123, on 06/30/2009, -0/+24I saw this great story in the New York Times years ago - when they were renovating many of the Times Square theaters - that construction workers found hundreds of wallets in ventilation pipes, stuffed there by pick pockets who'd cleaned the money out but left the IDs, personal photos, etc... Very interesting all those years later seeing the identities of those who'd been robbed.
- bkraj, on 06/30/2009, -0/+22"Where did all the time go?" Fulton said with a deep sigh. "It's hard to believe that the times have gone so fast."
This statement kind of scares me. - frmatc, on 06/30/2009, -0/+15Easy explanation: As you get older, a given unit of time is a smaller percentage of your life. Assuming 3 months off from school, a summer when you were 10 was 1/40 of your life. Remove the first 3 years of your life, for which you'd have little to no memory, and that becomes 1/28. That was certainly a significant chunk, and now a whole year can pass and it's about the same, 1/30 of your life. A memory of a "good summer" when you were 10 is about the same as a memory of a "good year" when you are 30.
By the time you're 60, a decade can pass and it will be the same percentage of your life as a year when you were 5. It's pretty intimidating to think about. - Dynamoo, on 06/30/2009, -0/+13More here: http://www.bakercityherald.com/Local-News/Memories ...
- RiotHeart, on 06/30/2009, -0/+12Wait a minute, I had $10 in here when I lost it
- pingpants, on 06/30/2009, -0/+11The same things I miss from my stolen iPhone: personal photos.
- TobiasParker, on 06/30/2009, -0/+11I have lost my wallet twice in 3 years, i guarantee i never see any part of it back.
- timbococ, on 06/30/2009, -0/+10The (very interesting) article:
http://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/02/nyregion/in-pick ... - FritoPendejo, on 06/30/2009, -1/+8I would remind myself that I went to high school in a disgusting place. Seriously, they didn't clean under these bleachers for 63 years? What kind of filthy gym is this?
- Rivetgeek, on 06/30/2009, -0/+6I remember as a kid thinking the summer went by so fast and asking my mom if timed seemed to go slower as an adult. My dear sweet mother should have lied to me instead of telling me that years and decades whizz by.
Mom was right. I turned 30 today and Im wondering wtf happened to my 20's - Snyz, on 06/30/2009, -0/+6I lost my wallet once and it had all my birthday money in it. I ended up finding it four years later while cleaning out my closet. Somehow a Power Rangers wallet no longer appealed to me, that $60 was nice though.
- wannaBdug, on 06/30/2009, -0/+5Wow that is pretty cool. "They" say if you lose something it will find it's owner. In this case it did.
- atlasdugged, on 06/30/2009, -1/+5If you lost your wallet today...where will you be 63 years from now and what will you want to remind yourself?
- Lucas123, on 06/30/2009, -0/+4Cool. You found it. I didn't even think to look online for it. Wow. That was 13 years ago -- time flies.
- dramasetter1, on 06/30/2009, -0/+4I wonder if the condom was still in the back...or maybe that's why he lost it on the bleachers in the first place...O_o
- muskrattttt, on 06/30/2009, -0/+4I left my wallet at a mall when I was 13 with almost $200.00 in it from Christmas. Upset and crying (yes I'm a girl) I figured I'd never see that cute little leopard print wallet again. About a month later, a manila envelope came to me in the mail with no return address on it, and my wallet was inside, all money included.
- zadadka, on 06/30/2009, -0/+4Seriously?
Why in the hell d'ya think they're called "bleachers"? - DiggaFugYoCouch, on 06/30/2009, -0/+3Not very often these days a wallet has the tenacity to defy all odds, and come back home.
- lacrimosa2008, on 06/30/2009, -0/+3I found two wallets so far. The first I gave to lost and found. The second one I found at a public parking lot about 5 years ago. It was dark and I stepped on it. It was a big ladies wallet with about €150 in it. By searching through the cards I got her name und after some google I had her number. I called her and arranged a meeting. She told me she already called the police and pressed charges against an unknown black man. I demanded her to cancel the false accusation and she told me, she will.
The next day I met her. She was accompanied by a male. Both in their 40ies. She then told me, the evening before, she was adressed by a black man who said he had no money for a train ticket to London or sth like that. She gave him some money and then accidentally dropped the purse before shutting the car door.
Right after realizing the lost, she thought the stranger must be a con-man and made a report.
However, when I gave the wallet to her, she was squealing with glee and gave me an envelope with a €50 reward in it.
I felt really good by returning it. Although I tiny bit insulted because of the male guy. As if she first had to evaluate, if I might be a part of this "fraud". - CrazySpaniard, on 06/30/2009, -0/+3unless you lose something expensive
- IphtashuFitz, on 06/30/2009, -0/+3I was hoping there would be pics. It'd be cool to see the wallet & the items that were in it...
- klipseracer, on 07/01/2009, -0/+2Thank you for this.
- manogamez, on 07/01/2009, -0/+2Anything that makes you aware of your mortality should.
- askantik, on 06/30/2009, -0/+2bkraj... I was thinking about that quotation, too. Pretty depressing. And frmatc-- that analytical view is certainly something to consider.
Best to do the most we can with the time we've got, eh? - TroyPDX, on 06/30/2009, -0/+2Wasn't anyone regularly under the bleachers doing drugs or having sex? What kind of nerd school was this?
- doubleoh7, on 06/30/2009, -0/+2Where did all the time go? It's hard to believe that the times have gone so fast.
- s0nicfreak, on 07/01/2009, -0/+1lacrimosa2008, it's just common sense not to go to some stranger's house alone.
- lacrimosa2008, on 07/01/2009, -0/+1sonicfreak, we met in the public...at daylight ^^
- masterstghm, on 07/01/2009, -0/+1I lost my wallet for good once, I had to replace everything in it. I found it a few months later in a closet.
- Neb28, on 06/30/2009, -0/+1"Where did all the time go?" Fulton said with a deep sigh. "It's hard to believe that the times have gone so fast."
Reading something like this always gives me goosebumps. Time just flies by, and in not time you'll be in your 70s reflecting on your life. - avelis, on 06/30/2009, -0/+1I got state ID back after it has been missing for two years. The USPS decided to charge me the postage for sending it to me. Way to go USPS. /sarcasm
- inactive, on 06/30/2009, -0/+0Hey...this is actually good news.
- CallanPaola, on 07/02/2009, -0/+0I love a good heart warming story. . . .
- rgaino, on 06/30/2009, -1/+1Oh, I thought you said "Lost's Walt".
- doublsh0t, on 06/30/2009, -1/+1Interesting--I would have thought IDs could do moderately well as a black market item or something. My friend got mugged recently outside a theater and she had her passport in her purse, and I instantly thought that she's probably going to have to do some serious identity theft control/prevention.
- CrazySpaniard, on 06/30/2009, -3/+1Front pages
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