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1. 1. I lost my cellphone last month. Looked everywhere. Eventually gave up, bought a new one, had to sign a new 2-year agreement, entered in all my contacts, etc. Then I found it in a winter coat I only wear once or twice a year. Not really a happy ending.

   2. This girl I worked with asked me out right before Christmas. The date was fine, but she is a very bad driver and we got in an accident on the way home. She had not been drinking but the cops did not believe her, so she had to do all those field sobriety tests. Things kinda fizzled out after that.

   3. Mr. Rogers. He’s generally beloved, and I think that is warranted.

   4. Either Pulp Fiction or Oliver & Company.

   posted by Travis on 2-13-2009 at 1:57 pm

2. I lost my favorite pair of glasses right before Christmas of ‘07. I searched for weeks, and finally (tired of wearing my spare pair), went and got new glasses in February of ‘08. When it came time to get my eyes checked again at the beginning of this month, I made one more sweep of the house to see if I could find my old favorite frames. No such luck. Disappointed, I went and picked out new frames and ordered my new glasses. YESTERDAY, I picked up my new glasses, went home and promptly found my old favorites…inside my cookbook. Guess I should bake more.

   ReCAPTCHA: 3-2 spices

   posted by Heather Dawn on 2-13-2009 at 2:00 pm

3. 1. I had a similiar situation happen in high school, only it was my pager that i lost. It was the beginning of winter and it had already snowed a pretty good amount. I was over at my friends house and we were getting drunk in his garage. After getting pretty sauced, everyone started fooling around and wrestling outside. After the comotion was over, i realized that my pager was missing. I started freaking out because it was pretty new. I had my friends call it over and over but still couldnt find it. Finally i gave up. I ended up buying a new one (which i believe was like $120, which is a lot for a high school kid). Then about 4-5 months later, my buddy comes to school and tells me he has something for me. and what do you know, it was my pager. It had fallen into a big snowpile next to his garage and when the snow finally melted, there it was. The best part about it was that it STILL WORKED after being submerged in snow for months. it was like a caveman that is preserved in ice for millions of years, except it was a electronics encased in plastic preserved in snow. At least after that i had a spare because i always seemed to find a way to break those stupid little things

   4. I think i’ve seen Caddyshack at least 100 times. That is the quentisential movie in my family.

   Another great watching feat for me is that i’ve watched Season 1 of The Wire about 20 times (literally). That is pretty much my go-to show whenever there isnt anything i want to watch. I feel it’s pretty impressive if you think about it….that’s 13 one-hour long episodes watched 20 times each. That’s 260 hours devoted to one single season of one tv show. And i’m sure i’ll be watching it at least 20 times more because it is that good!!!

   posted by Andy on 2-13-2009 at 2:03 pm

4. 1. I lost my iPod sometime in March of last year. Gave up looking after a few days, ended up buying a new (and better) one, only to have the old one turn up in about December. Of course, I had left it in a coat pocket. It made a nice Christmas present for my brother, though :D.

   posted by Zach on 2-13-2009 at 2:05 pm

5. I’ve got a nice flossy anecdote for #1.

   Ever since I saw the mental_floss email announcing that “Palindromes are Rasemordnilap!” was going to be a t-shirt, I realized that it was quite possibly to be the greatest t-shirt ever made. I got in the mail at the end of the summer, wore it to a big out-of-state family reunion, and took it with me when I had to return to school a couple weeks later. I wore it once and then lost it. I was devastated. I couldn’t think of where it could be. I checked Lost and Founds across campus and tore apart my room looking for it, but nothing. I’d pretty much abandoned hope.

   But about two months later, a friend asked if I had an oven mit or a towel she could use because she was on her way to taking something out of the community oven. I said, “sure,” and went to a little bin where I keep extra sheets and towels. Lo and behold! There, amongst the towels, was my Palindromes shirt! I freaked out–I was so happy. “I can’t believe it! I thought I’d lost it! Oh, I’m so happy!”

   The girl, though, hardly seemed enthusiastic and didn’t really know what the shirt referred. She mostly responded with, “Oh, great. Can I get that towel?”

   How it got there I’m still not too sure. I’ve concocted a theory or two, but nothing convincing. But it doesn’t matter. What’s important is that I didn’t lose it after all.

   posted by Andy on 2-13-2009 at 2:07 pm

6. 1. When I was about 8, I lost my favorite cat. His name was LP (short for Leader of the Pack). I went out to feed him one morning and he was just gone. About 2 years later, I went outside one morning to feed my other cat and there was LP. He was just sitting on the top step waiting for breakfast (with a few more scars than the last time I saw him).

   posted by Shannon on 2-13-2009 at 2:09 pm

7. 1. I bought a pair of shoes. Lost them. I needed another pair. Bought another. Lost those. Bought another, then the first two showed up. So now I have three pairs of the exact same shoe littering my bedroom floor.

   posted by Nathan on 2-13-2009 at 2:11 pm

8. 1. Since I’m particularly anal about where I place things, when I lose something, even something small and insignificant, I freak out.
   In college, a friend gave me a really nice pen as part of a gift and one day I lost it. I searched high and low for it and then I gave up. About three months later, I felt something weird in one of my messenger bags. Apparently, a hole had ripped in the lining of the bag and my pen somehow found its way in there, so it was trapped between the lining and the outside bag material.

   4. A movie I’ve seen probably more than anyone (at least anyone who’s willing to admit it) is Midnight Madness, starring David Naughton (from the I’m a Pepper Dr. Pepper commercial). It’s a 1980 movie about a scavenger hunt in L.A. Everytime my family and I went to the video store, each of us kids were allowed to get one video and I picked that almost every time (to the disappointment of my family). I’ve seen it probably about 30 times or more.
   Other movies I’ve watched more than a dozen times: Clue, Troop Beverly Hills, Girls Just Want to Have Fun and Oscar (those are probably the most obscure movies I have in my collection).

   posted by Shelly on 2-13-2009 at 2:12 pm

9. 4. Big Trouble in Little China…seen at least 12 times. When I met my now husband, that was the only movie we both owned.

   posted by Jennifer on 2-13-2009 at 2:18 pm

10. 1. It seems almost every day I lose something. There have been times when I’ve bought a replacement for something and found the original while putting the new one away >.

    posted by heather on 2-13-2009 at 2:22 pm

11. 1) Thing that I lost that I still can’t figure out how I ‘lost’- years ago my aunt gave me a crucifix necklace that I wear just about all the time. One day I decided to put a different charm on my necklace and put the crucifix on my bureau. When I got home that night, it was nowhere to be found- and I looked. I took everything off my bureau, looked through all of the drawers, in between each article of clothing in the drawers, under the bureau, under the radiator (just in case I had accidentally knocked it off the bureau while I was getting ready), under my bed- everywhere. Finally, heartbroken, I gave it up for lost and started to try and figure out a way to tell my aunt. A couple of weeks later, I happened to glance at the top of my bureau as I was getting ready for work and there it was- right in the center where I had put it down in the first place. To this day, I have absolutely no clue what the heck happened, but I am glad to have it back.

    posted by Karen on 2-13-2009 at 2:25 pm

12. 1. This story is more about something getting stolen than getting lost. My boyfriend came to visit me in my apartment before we lived together and parked his car on the street. I lived in a major city at the time, but had lived there for 5 years and never had any problems parking on the street…Until we woke up the next morning and found that his car was gone. He filed a police report and waited about two weeks before he decided to buy a new car. As soon as he walked in the house after he returned from the car lot with his brand new car, the police called to let him know that they found his car in good working order. When would he like to come pick it up from the lot? Oops!

    posted by Katie on 2-13-2009 at 2:28 pm

13. 5. Nightmare before Christmas and Hot Fuzz. I have probably seen both 100+ times, especially Nightmare before Christmas. Funny about Hot Fuzz, didn’t even think it was that good the first time I saw it. Now I realize how awesome it is.

    posted by Billy on 2-13-2009 at 2:32 pm

14. #4: Jaws, Zoolander and The Count of Monte Cristo. I will watch any of those movies anytime they are on tv and in any language. Love love love them.

    posted by ac on 2-13-2009 at 2:32 pm

15. My worst date ever was on Valentine’s Day a few years ago. My then boyfriend told me he had a big Valentine surprise for me and that I needed to get dressed up and be ready to go out. I bought a new dress, can-tanned, got my nails done, spent hours on hair and make-up…. When the guy showed up he was in running shorts and a t-shirt… He promptly drove me to his apartment where he had a room temperature pizza… To top things off his Mom showed up a few minutes later. When I asked him what the hell he was thinking he responded that he didn’t want me to guess my surprise… A jackass in ill fitting running shorts and a greasy pizza by no means constitute the title ‘surprise’.

    posted by Lauren on 2-13-2009 at 2:33 pm

16. 2. I went out with a guy who I did not really like but kept bothering me about a date, so I finally went out with him.

    To sum up the date; His brother greeted me in his boxers, I met his parents, had someone run into my car in the parking lot of the movie theater, got soaking wet on the way into the theater, had the power go out in the theater for approx. 30 min, got pulled over by on the way home after he flipped a cop off, and he had the audacity to say he had a great time and wanted to do it again next weekend. Blech…

    posted by B on 2-13-2009 at 2:34 pm

17. 2. I’ll do both…

    My BEST DATE was as close to a movie as I’ll ever get. It was great conversation and fun joking the whole night. We went to dinner and bowling (ok maybe not exactly like a movie), and then we went to the beach. We walked for a bit on the sand and then we ended up lying down with her head on my chest looking at the stars. I started naming a few constellations I knew and then we started to connect the dots to make up our own. After a few brief moments of silence we kissed.

    My WORST DATE was with a surprise crazy girl who distracted me with her good looks.
    Over dinner I realized the kind of person she was when she bragged about spending $1,000’s on clothing and getting away with drunk driving. Plus, this date was on a Friday, and before the meal was over she made plans for us to hang out on Saturday and Sunday – this was our first date, and within 45 minutes I was now spending my whole weekend with her? Yikes!
    I should have ended the date here, but distracted by a pretty a girl I went against my better judgment and decided to go out for drinks.
    We took a classic San Francisco trolley car and then walked to our destination. Along the way she became more and more affectionate, and trying to be a nice guy, I said three true things “I don’t want to lead you on, I don’t want to hurt you, I don’t see this going anywhere.”
    Here’s a tip for anyone who’s read this far, don’t break up with somebody if your only means back is walking and then waiting for a trolley because now a terrible moment is spread out over 30 minutes giving her plenty of time to voice my faults loud enough for passer buyers and bus waiters to enjoy. When she wasn’t looking, I just had to sneak laughs to myself to enjoy the absurdity of the situation.
    I decided that even though I was a poor college kid without much money, it’s time to spring for a cab to end this unique date, and in case you’re wondering, no, we did not hang out on Saturday or Sunday.

    3. Oatmeal

    4. “Out Cold” – not a great film, but an easy, fun film to re-watch

    5. I’ll wait to see if I win the caption contest first

    posted by NateJ on 2-13-2009 at 2:35 pm

18. Unfortunately the only stuff that I thought I lost and ended up finding is my ninja staple remover. Everything else I lose is GONE!

    I’ve watched The Muppet Movie every night since the beginning of June. Not really watching it, but putting it in the DVD player and then falling asleep. I have only made it as far as “Never Before, Never Again!” I basically recite the first 15 minutes as I’m drifting off to Sleepland. (”They don’t look like Presbyterians to me!”)

    posted by Jen on 2-13-2009 at 2:38 pm

19. 1. My parents gave me a beautiful pearl ring for my birthday a couple of years ago. The second week I had it, I took it off in the kitchen to clean up/wash dishes after dinner. I thought I had put it in a safe place on the counter, but after cleaning up it was nowhere to be found. I looked everywhere for weeks and weeks. I couldn’t bring myself to tell my parents I’d lost it. I kept looking in stranger and stranger places, pulling out the stove and microwave, cleaning out each cabinet. Finally, almost 3 months later, my roommate found it. She went to use the box of saran wrap and it had somehow managed to get INSIDE of the saran wrap box and get put away. I can’t tell you how many times we used the saran wrap before she found it in there!

    posted by Katie on 2-13-2009 at 2:40 pm

20. 1. I generally lose sunglasses on a regular basis and then find the old ones as soon as I’ve purchased new ones. I currently have about 5 pairs of sunglasses none of which I will be able to locate when I need them.

    2. My husband and I had just started dating when we ran into a guy who I had been on a blind date with a few months prior. The blind date was not a bad one, but it was certainly not a love match. Anyway, as my prior date approached us, I began to get kind of nervous about what he was going to say. He looked right at my husband and said, “Uncle Brian, I haven’t seen you forever!” Yes, I once dated someone who is now my nephew.

    4) Being a mom, I have had to endure whatever Disney movie has recently been released about 300 times before the next one is released. I am currently watching Ratatouille AGAIN. As an adult, I generally don’t watch movies over and over again, but if I catch The Shawshank Redemption as I am flipping through channels, I will stop and watch it.

    posted by bzzyb on 2-13-2009 at 2:43 pm

21. 2. on a blind first date that was dinner and a movie ant my house (i was naive and didn’t think this was unsafe), i met a girl that said she was 5′10″ and turned out to be more like 6′3″. she said she was nervous and made herself a drink out of the bottle of vodka she brought in her purse. fast forward two hours later and i am holding her hair until she passes out on the bathroom floor. i carry her into my bed and sleep on the couch. when she asked the next morning if i wanted to see her again, i think she new it was rhetorical when it left her lips.

    4. on the college cable channel they used to put up three movies a month. midway through “shawshank redemption” it cut off to the start of “fern gully” they showed shawshank on another channel on a constant loop for almost two months after all the complaints came in. i will still watch it when it comes on TBS or whatever. so, easily over 200 times…

    posted by theYerg on 2-13-2009 at 2:48 pm

22. RE: #1

    My big “idiot moment” was last summer when my mom and I had were going to take my son on his first road trip from CA to WI and we were planning on being gone three weeks.

    The night before we left, my mom was at our place because we are further east than she is and I was basically running around like a chicken with my head cut off trying to get everything in the car, cleaning, packed, etc…

    The “idiot moment” came when we got back home… I was missing alot of silverware and some of my son’s cups, I thought someone came into our house while we were gone, even called the police about it.

    A couple days later, I opened the dishwasher (which had been closed) to put dishes in it only to find the missing items in there!! I guess my mom did the last of the dishes for me and I never even noticed because I was so busy.

    OOPS!

    posted by Sarah in CA on 2-13-2009 at 2:49 pm

23. 1. I lost my debit card. I searched everywhere for it – every pair of pants, coat, purse (I own a lot of purses), wallet, everything. I finally called it in to the bank as lost and got a new one a few weeks later. Then a month later, I found it in the pocket of a cargo skirt I hadn’t worn in months because it was out of style. Oof.

    2. Worst date: I tried online dating for a while and this pretty much turned me off to it: The guy immediately commented that I looked “heavier” than my profile picture. Wow, thanks buddy. He then asked if I chose my shirt because it showed off my boobs! I don’t know why I didn’t just leave then, but I thought I could at least get a free meal out of the jerk. No such luck: after he decided it would be a good idea to sit at the bar (we went to a sports bar) rather than at a table, he asked me to pay for my meal. Then, after not offering to walk me to my car (I’m not sure why I expected it at this point), he pulled up alongside me in his car as I was walking to mine and asked if I wanted to come over to his house! Ugh.

    3. Google. Seriously, it is amazing.

    4. Boondock Saints. I’ve probably watched it around 50 times.

    posted by The Kristy on 2-13-2009 at 3:03 pm

24. PS – What surprised me was that NO ONE I told that I was missing all this stuff suggested I look in the dishwasher, haahah. Even the cop that came over didn’t just open the thing up and look.

    posted by Sarah in CA on 2-13-2009 at 3:05 pm

25. 1. I do this all the time but no instance can come to mind…although, it has happened a lost less since my sister bought a Numerology book. One section is called “Missing Items.” You write nine random numbers and add them up. The sum leads you to a clue that tells you where the item is. 90% of the time it works. Creepy!

    2. For my 23rd birthday my boyfriend secretly planned a trip to New York to ice skate in Central Park and explore the city. Each segment of the trip was revealed to me with a different birthday card (I’m a Hallmark addict…). All I had told him was I wanted to go ice skating…there’s a perfectly good rink down the street from his house. Instead I was wisked to NYC, skated in Central Park, visited Eles Island, saw Mamma Mia, and made memories to last a lifetime!

    4. Ten Things I Hate About You. I’m absolutely addicted to it.

    posted by erin brianne on 2-13-2009 at 3:08 pm

26. 1. Having moved once a year for the past 6, the number of objects that I was sure I had lost only to find in some obscure place in a back corner is daunting…

    2. It wasn’t exactly a date, but its a good story. I had dated a girl who was spending a semester at my university who i slowly realized was utterly insane. One weekend after she had returned to her own college, I heard rumor that she was in town, and was thoroughly pleased that she had not called me (the break up had been particularly ugly). That sunday morning, i slept late (because I was a college student, and those are the rules) only to be awoken by a text message from one of my two roomates, warning me that my other roomate had brought the girl back to our apartment after he ran into her at church (he did not follow the ever important sleeping-in-on-sundays rule). I spent half an hour pretending to be asleep and contemplating escaping out the window, but alas, she finally knocked and i was obliged to let her in. I told her I didn’t want to talk there, but suggested coffee later in the day. I assumed that a public place was a safe location for such an encounter. I was dramatically incorrect on that count. As soon as she sat down, she immediately began screaming, crying and generally flipping out at me in the midst of our student center (there were probably 300 of my fellow students in the immediate vicinity). After 5 minutes, I tried to simply walk back to my apartment and leave the conflict behind me. She followed me for the entire mile and half, continuing her rant all the way. I finally made it inside the apartment, locked the door, and told the offending roommate that he owed me considerably for his mistake, and was fortunate that the repercussions for him were not worse.

    3a) That Klosteman is one of my favorite pieces of writing ever.

    3b) work. it seems to be about as unpleasant as is rumored.

    4) Rounders and Snatch… The former we watched everytime we played cards throughout highschool, probably 200 to 300 times. Snatch we watched whenever we weren’t playing cards, a similar number of viewings… at this point, i can watch both movies without the volume on…

    posted by jake on 2-13-2009 at 3:09 pm

27. 1 – Once I lost a small gold necklace when I was about 11 years old. I looked everywhere and couldn’t find it, and knew my mom would flip out because she gave it to me “special”. So right before my shower one night, I started crying and talking to anything/one out there that would listen, begging for my necklace back because I was sure I was going to get grounded when mom found out. After my shower I looked on the ground right outside my bedroom and there it was, right in the doorway. Divine intervention? Maybe.
    Caught in my shirt and fell out when I took off my clothes to have a shower? Probably.

    2 – As an avid dater of the online variety, I have plenty of bad date stories (really, I’m going to have to start a blog or something). What’s worse, though, are the bad ‘first impression’ emails I get. Yesterday I received one from a 30 year old man with flashing heart emoticons, clip art, rotating flower pictures and pink font. He didn’t even attach a picture of himself.
    I also received another one yesterday asking me what services I performed and what my hourly rate was.
    So now I’m just stuck trying to decide which one I should take out for Valentine’s day. Swoon.

    3 – Sunshine. Really, it’s just perfect.

    4 – “Men in Black”. For whatever reason, I’ve seen that movie about 150 times, whether watching it or just putting it on in the background. It’s not even a cool movie or something “deep”…it’s Will Smith fighting aliens. Lame, Jenny.

    posted by Jenny on 2-13-2009 at 3:13 pm

28. I went out with a guy last summer who told me that he HIT his ex girlfriend. This bothered me on several levels: 1. the fact that he hit her, period. 2. The fact that he felt comfortable telling me this on a first date. I’m all for disclosure, but it was a little much. Needless to say I never saw him again.

    posted by Meghan on 2-13-2009 at 3:15 pm

29. 1. It doesn’t matter what is lost i almost ALWAYS find it in my car somewhere.

    2. ok so most horrible date ever:

    i meet a guy at a bar (i sould have known better), but we were both sober driver so it seemed nice to talk to someone not intoxicated out of their mind. All was going great and he got my number. He called and asked me to go on a date so i say sure. he tells me we will go out friday night and he will call friday with details. He never calls on friday. on saturday he calls and im like “what the heck?” he says he thought he said saturday. I give him the benefit of the doubt and tell he we can go out that night. I say when are you picking me up and he says why dont we meet at the movies i dont have air conditioning in my jeep (I live in Louisiana and it was summer. It’s too hot for no air). So i agree and meet him there. he has already bought himself a ticket to go see War. I am expected to buy my own ticket. I did and we saw the movie (which wasnt great) He also didnt smell great after riding in his non-air conditioned jeep. Needless to say I never saw him again.

    3. the Twilight series.

    4. A league of their own. everytime its on tv it’s like im unable to change the channel

    posted by Kaitlyn on 2-13-2009 at 3:15 pm

30. 4. Better Off Dead with John Cusack. I love John Cusack movies! I don’t think I’ve seen Shawshank Redemption 200 times, but what a great movie. I’ve loved Morgan Freeman since his Easy Reader days on The Electric Company. And circling back around to the topic, I’m now on my way to seeing Electric Company reruns many times over, since I bought a DVD box set of the series for my kids to watch. (…really, it IS for my kids…)

    posted by Heaz on 2-13-2009 at 3:17 pm

31. OK, so in my line of work, I rely on flashlights a lot. So I bought myself a compact, name brand one. Naturally, it was about $100. I had it for the better part of year, and used it daily. And then one day, it was gone. Just like that. So I searched. And searched. And tore apart everything. SO then I broke down and bought a new one. For another hundred bucks. Not a month later, I found the first one, in the bottom of a gear bag. So I was happy to have a “backup” light (trying to be positive…). The problem is, now I lose one or the other on a regular basis. I don’t know where the newer one is at this point!

    posted by Katie on 2-13-2009 at 3:17 pm

32. 1. Lost our Uncle Dawson’s gold teeth. They turned up much later in a box of other things.

    2. Best date: Surprise afternoon picnic on a beautiful day followed by engagement ring. Worst Date: Blind date I didn’t know about until I was on it. BAD girlfriend!

    3. Meh

    4. Can’t help myself movies (not necessarily my fav movies but I still just can’t help watching them): Love Actually, My Fair Lady, Overboard, Dumb and Dumber, The Notebook, Raising Arizona.

    posted by Heather on 2-13-2009 at 3:23 pm

33. 1. When I was about 10 years old, I had a pet lizard that I’d caught on a camping trip. My mom was terrified of it, and I wasn’t allowed to take it out of its cage in the house. I had a friend over one Friday after school, and of course, we took it out and played with it in my bedroom. It immediately scampered under my bed, and we could not find it ANYWHERE (probably a result of a lot of crap being under my bed). We freaked out and didn’t tell my mom or anyone. On Sunday afternoon, my mom was helping me clean my room, and the lizard ran out from under the bed.

    2. My worst date was in college. I was a freshman, and an older guy asked if I wanted to go out to dinner. On our way to dinner, he said, “I have a surprise for you. I signed us up for a workshop at Tiffany called ‘How to Buy a Diamond.’” It was basically a marketing presentation for couples who were already engaged or on their way to getting engaged. It was our first date, and all of these amorous couples kept asking us how long we’d been together. It such an awkward scene.

    4.Adventures in Babysitting

    posted by Lizq on 2-13-2009 at 3:28 pm

34. 1) About eight years ago I was on my way back from London and I had my Game Boy with me while I was there, but when I got home I couldn’t find it. I thought the maid in my hotel had stolen it or something. When did I find it? LAST YEAR. No joke. It randomly showed up in my room again and I have no idea how.

    4) The movie I’ve seen the most times is, without a doubt, “Clue.” I’ve seen it over 200 times (might even be more than that) and I still can’t get enough. I have that movie memorized — so much so that I could leave the room while it’s playing, go through the lines in my head, and come back to know exactly what line they’re up to. It’s a sickness, really. If that movie wasn’t so damn good I’d judge me. :)

    posted by Rebecca on 2-13-2009 at 3:37 pm

35. 1. Not entirely sure if this counts, because we didn’t know it was lost, but it’s a good story, nonetheless. In January of ‘07, I was hospitalized for an infection and my mom drove out from Illinois to Virginia to take care of me. While she was there, she helped me sort through my stuff for an impending move. I commented that I liked her laptop bag better than mine, and she swapped with me. In July, I was moving again and going through things to donate to charity. The laptop bag was in the give-away pile, but at the last minute I decided I still needed it and took it with me to Pennsylvania, filling the pockets with miscellaneous crap. Two or three months after that, I’m finally getting everything unpacked in the new place, and start cleaning out the laptop bag. In an inside pocket, I found $500! My mom always stashes cash in odd places in case her purse gets lost or stolen. She had forgotten all about money and I had nearly given it to Goodwill.

    2. A guy I’d recently started dating asked me to be his date for a friends wedding. He looked incredibly handsome, complimented me on my new dress, introduced me to all his friends, held my hand during the ceremony, danced with me at the reception, and took me to a pretty outdoor shopping area afterward. The relationship didn’t work out, but it was one of the sweetest dates I’ve ever been on.

    3. Casablanca. It’s exactly as awesome as everyone says.

    4. Buffy, The Vampire Slayer and Camp Nowhere were my default movies at the video store for YEARS. I’ve probably seen each more than 50 times (Buffy might be closer to 100). I’ll watch When Harry Met Sally, The Princess Bride, Singin’ In the Rain, and Meet Me in St. Louis anytime they’re on tv.

    posted by Chelsea on 2-13-2009 at 4:00 pm

36. 2. The worst date I was ever on was when I was 16. I have always had a thing for older guys, but this was my first date with someone significantly older; he was a 21 year old slam poet stopping in my town on the way to Philadelphia. To me he was a rock star, I couldn’t believe my luck!

    I had recently gotten my driver’s license and gotten clearance to take my dad’s car for the night. Somehow while on our date, I got hopelessly lost in a bad neighborhood. We drove around for about an hour before I somehow found the restaurant we were going to. He said he didn’t mind and liked seeing more of the city, but I was hideously embarrassed.

    3. I think that Harry Potter is rated just right, honestly. The books, that is.

    4. As a toddler I watched the Wizard of Oz every day. My parents got it for me for my 2nd birthday. I have almost certainly seen it over 400 times.

    As a preteen I watched Clueless often enough that I could recite it word for word.

    posted by Peeved on 2-13-2009 at 4:02 pm

37. 4. The Princess Bride

    posted by Kirsten on 2-13-2009 at 4:06 pm

38. 1. In 7th grade my magenta (NOT pink) Edie Bauer backpack was stolen out of my parents’ car. This backpack was the greatest; it had padding in all the right places and an extra strap across the front to support the weight of the 5-8 library books I always carried, including when the theft happened. I broke the news to my school librarian, she was upset, but understood that it wasn’t my fault. About 2 weeks later she called me out of class to show me a stack of muddy and damaged books (the very same that were stolen), that were found in a friends yard. The only reason we could come up with was that the thief simply discarded the books because he was only interested in my (priceless) backpack.
    2. My single worst date had to be in Las Vegas. The boyfriend and I were driving across the country and decided to make a stop in Las Vegas to visit with his family and see the sights. Well, apparently his aunt didn’t like the food at Caesar’s Palace, so we wound up having our big Vegas dinner at a Jewish Deli in a strip mall. Then instead of heading off to the casinos, we had to go visit the bf’s cousin’s dog…which had an unfortunate case of car sickness. I was a little bitter about my big night in Vegas being spent watching a dog vomit, until the bf’s family decided that a rousing game of fetch would make the dog feel better. The only thing that could be found to play fetch with? A promotional stress ball for a plastic surgeon in the shape of a breast.
    Fortunately, the bf did take me to lunch at Star Trek: The experience the next day to make up for it. We got to watch a Borg call an old lady a racist and a Ferengi tried to buy me from my boyfriend.
    4. Right now I play my Mamma Mia DVD every night as I fall asleep, though I’m usually asleep before it hit’s Dancing Queen. When I was in middle school I used to keep my Mulan VHS on repeat, 24/7. I just couldn’t function if it wasn’t on. The big winner is probably Rocky Horror Picture Show, as I’ve had to watch it (and perform in front of it) at least twice a month for the past 4 years.

    ReCaptcha: McFate 14

    posted by Mandragora on 2-13-2009 at 4:20 pm

39. 3) two words: Krispy Kreme

    posted by Tom on 2-13-2009 at 4:20 pm

40. 1. I once lost my wallet. Searched everywhere, decided I must have lost it in the parking lot or something. Finally gave up and replaced the driving license, the credit cards, the insurance cards, the baby pictures, the Military ID card (and boy was that a hassle).
    Six years later, I’m packing to move, and grab my home-made emergency-supply kit down off the shelf of the closet. The kit consists of several individual kits, some canned food, a space blanket, etc, all in a paper shopping bag with EMERGENCY written on the outside. As I’m packing it into a box for shipping, I find my wallet. How or why it got in there, I never did figure out.

    4. Empire Records. I used to turn it on as background noise. I killed three VHS copies before I bought a DVD player.

    posted by Kijeren on 2-13-2009 at 4:31 pm

41. #4. My little brother and I would pick one of the original Star Wars trilogy and watch it every Saturday morning for nearly two years. We probably watched Return of the Jedi 40 times. My brother can still quote the entire asteroid scene from Empire perfectly.

    posted by janeeyre316 on 2-13-2009 at 4:35 pm

42. 4. Caddyshack. No doubt. When I was in college, one of my roommates ordered an extremely cheap yet unbelievably warrantied DVD player. When it arrived, it didn’t work. Nor did it’s replacement when it arrived the following week. Long story short, by some goof-up he eventually ended up with 2 working DVD players. And considering he needed only one AND he lived in a house of engineers, he had but one choice: run it to failure.

    The sacrificial player was chosen at random from the 2, and attached to a 19″ TV in our living room. At that point, the only decision to make was what DVD to play over and over and over on loop (the player had the ability to be programmed like that). There was only one real choice.

    Caddyshack played on loop in our living room for a grand total of 37 days and 12-19 hrs (it died sometime during the night). And what a glorious it was. Once it was gone, the place just seemed… weird. Like a member of the family had died.

    posted by John on 2-13-2009 at 4:39 pm

43. 2. A blind date that my distant relative set me up on when I spent Easter weekend in Bochum, Germany. After going out for drinks with my distant relative, the guy, and his mother, he and I went to a Disko. On the way there, he only wanted to talk about WWF and how much the pay-per-view on fights are in the US. At the Disko, the only time he talked to me was to ask if I wanted another beer/cola concoction or a daquiri, which he pronounced very oddly. (Like da-kee-ri) So we stood there, silently, not dancing for the entire night. It was great.

    3. The Beatles

    4. Oh, let’s see…Hook, Cool Hand Luke, Pride and Prejudice, and Anchorman. I also used to go on a kick where I would watch the same movie kind of obsessively…Jesus Christ Superstar was one of these…but that was mostly just because I didn’t have the soundtrack :). I also watch the Office kind of obsessively as well. I can handle a lot of repetition, evidently.

    posted by Fruppi on 2-13-2009 at 4:40 pm

44. 4. Annie or Back to the Future. Annie I recorded off a tv channel that barely came in. Back to the Future my brother and I would rent every single time my mom took us to the library. Yup, the library. Thankfully we got books too.

    posted by Bug on 2-13-2009 at 4:42 pm

45. #4: “The Princess Bride”, “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” & “The Rutles”. I’ve seen each of those movies dozens upon dozens of times…

    posted by PJ on 2-13-2009 at 4:43 pm

46. 1. This didn’t happen to me exactly, but I was there when it happened. When my brother was in fourth grade, he got 3 crabs as pets. But we also had three cats. Two of the crabs died of natural causes (they had a fourth grade boy looking after them, it was expected). But one managed to survive for a while. But one day, my brother went into his room and realized the last crab was gone from the tank (and it was a fish sized tank, so it couldn’t have just crawled out). My mom, my brother and I all searched his room from top to bottom, but couldn’t find the crab. We just assume a cat got it and let it go. A couple months later, my brother is laying on the couch in our family room. He goes to put a blanket over him, and the lost crab comes tumbling out, dead. Now, the thing is, my brother’s room is on the third floor of our house, and the family room is on the first. To this day, we cannot figure out how this all happened, because the crab had not smelled at all, so it couldn’t have been dead all that time, but we can’t figure out how it had lived. Or how our cats (all three of which aren’t that intelligent) could’ve gotten the crab down three floors and into the blanket without us noticing.

    4. Every time it’s on tv, I watch the Keira Knightly version of “Pride and Prejudice”. And it’s on tv alot.

    posted by Victoria on 2-13-2009 at 4:52 pm

47. 4. The Mummy. I *cannot* turn it off if it’s on t.v. (and I have the DVD). It’s poorly written, cheesy, has some of the worst Egyptian history of all time in it, but still, I watch it EVERY time it’s on t.v. (and it’s on t.v. a lot).

    posted by Mel on 2-13-2009 at 4:54 pm

48. #4 I have a weakness for “Overboard”. When I was little, I would watch it at least once a day. If it is on TV, I still can’t resist. What a classic!

    posted by kayla on 2-13-2009 at 5:05 pm

49. 1. This is gross, but when I was in kindergarden, I put a single Mardi Gras bead in my ear. I guess I assumed it came out or just forgot about it. However, about three years later, I was digging in my ear, and what should come out but that single bead. I didn’t notice any hearing problems, annoyances, or anything like that. It’s gross, I know.

    2. My worst date ever had to have been winter formal my sophomore year of high school. I think I can surmise it with she wore a sleeveless dress and didn’t shave her armpits.

    3. I think the Zelda video game series and Jay-Z are rated just about exactly right.

    4. Honestly, it might be “Kung-Pow: Enter the Fist.” Quite possibly the most underrated comedy of all time.

    posted by Stu on 2-13-2009 at 5:08 pm

50. 1. I loved My Little Pony when I was a kid. I had several of the ponies, but my favorite was a unicorn with rainbow hair. I took it to school when I was 5 years old and I was playing with it on the playground when a little girl came up and asked me if she could play with it for a little while. I didn’t want to part with it, but I knew I was supposed to share, so I let her play with it. She ran off and I tried to keep an eye on her. I saw her playing with it on the swings, but she was covering it up with rocks, so I screamed her name to get her attention and tell her to stop. A teacher ran over to tell me to stop yelling and while I was speaking to the teacher, the little girl ran off. I couldn’t find her until we were lining up to go to the classroom, and she didn’t have my pony. I was so upset; she claimed she lost it. I told the teacher but she couldn’t find it either. Nothing was ever done about it. I moved away from that school when I was seven years old. We lived in another town until I was in fifth grade, when we moved back to my old town and I re-enrolled in my old school. The second week of school, I felt really sick and asked to go to the office to call my mom. The teacher sent me and I had to sit with the secretary while I waited for my mom. I noticed the lost and found box, so I moved closer to it because I was curious about the many items inside. As soon as I looked down into the box, I spotted my pony, lying near the bottom, right next to a Nerf football. I couldn’t believe it. It was a bit dirty, but it was mine. The secretary had a hard time believing me, but she admitted it had been in the box for a while, but not for five years, because the box is cleaned out at the end of each school year. I took it home and cleaned it up and I still have it today. I often wonder what adventures she went on while she was away for five years :)
    2. My worst date started out okay. I met him in college; he was older than me, but I was okay with that. He had longish hair and interesting eyes. On Friday night, he picked me up and took me out for Chinese food. After it was over, he asked me if I wanted to go to his place for a swim. I was 18 years old, and he was 27. I was excited he had a swimming pool, so I went to pick up my suit and we headed to his place. I soon found out he lived with his parents and we had to sneak back to his room because they were sleeping. As soon as I walked in, I almost ran away. His entire room was surrounded by foam mannequin heads, each wearing a different elaborate and crazy mask. Plus, there was a rack of spandex and sparkle outfits in the corner. He saw my shock, and sheepishly admitted that his job is a professional wrestler on the local circuit. His persona was something really cheesy that I don’t even want to begin to get into. I left about two minutes later.
    3. I believe that The Beatles’ Sgt. Peppers Lonely Heart’s Club, Rubber Soul, and Revolver are rated just right. They are known as some of the best albums of all time, and it is perfectly true. They feel new and fresh every time I hear them.
    4. It would be between two movies. FAME, the movie that later became a show, was my obsession when I was a little kid. My mother had the vinyl record soundtrack and I performed each song, endlessly entertaining family and friends (who later tortured me with the recordings of this). I made my mom rent the movie all the time, and I later bought it when I was 15 and have watched it countless times since then. Also, Dirty Dancing is a movie I was obsessed with when I was young. As an adult, I’ve seen Romeo and Juliet (new version) countless times because we watch it in my 9th grade English class when I teach Romeo and Juliet, so I have to watch it three times a day, twice a year.

    posted by Jessica Johnson on 2-13-2009 at 5:08 pm

51. 1. When I was eight or nine, my aunt gave me a set of four miniatures. I collected them when I was young. My favorite among these was a small silver bell, about 3/4 of an inch tall. I loved that bell and carried it around for a while. Then I lost it. Last year, (approximately 11 or 12 years later) I saw a small silver bell in a drawer. It was my bell! I was so glad to have it back!

    4. The Fifth Element has to be my most watched film. I discovered it when it first come out on video and the movie rental place kept in on hold for me whenever I came in. Now I own the deluxe edition on DVD and I watch it at least once a month.

    posted by Kieran on 2-13-2009 at 5:09 pm

52. 1. My wallet. A few months ago I could’ve sworn in court that I had my wallet with me at the ice skating rink. As we were leaving, I realized I didn’t have it. We looked everywhere at the rink for it. Finally found it after canceling my cards. It was at home.

    2. As a college freshman neither I nor the guy I was dating had a car. So when he wanted to take me to the movies, we carpooled with the computer science club in a large school van to see Ice Age for the really cool CG.

    3. Warm sunny days after winter’s cold.

    4. What About Bob? I made my dad rent this every weekend for over a year when I was a kid. He hated Bill Murray for a long time for this.

    posted by Rachel on 2-13-2009 at 5:19 pm

53. 4. I would have to say “Serenity,” “Pride and Prejudice” and “Love Actually.” I have watched all of those movies at least 50 times. That’s a huge deal considering I can’t handle watching a movie more than once. I am also always up for an “Arrested Development” and “Firefly.”

    posted by Shan on 2-13-2009 at 5:27 pm

54. 4. I would have to say “Serenity,” “Pride and Prejudice” and “Love Actually.” I have watched all of those movies at least 50 times. That’s a huge deal considering I can’t handle watching a movie more than once. I am also always up for an “Arrested Development” and “Firefly.”

    posted by Shan on 2-13-2009 at 5:28 pm

55. I lost my wallet with most of my cashed pay check in it. I had to sell some Hi-Fi equipment to make up for the lost cash. Five months later I was vacuuming my bedroom and found the wallet under a trunk. I had set the trunk down on the wallet last time I vacuumed and then slid the trunk back in place. Guess i should vacuum more often.

    posted by Matt on 2-13-2009 at 5:32 pm

56. 1. A few years back I borrowed the Kill Bill Soundtrack to my sister, then like 7 months later I wanted to hear it and tought that I’ve lost it, asked to my sister and she said that she didn’t have it. Like 3 months later she found it and gave it back to me.
    4. The Thomas Crown Affair, the one with Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo.

    posted by Roberto on 2-13-2009 at 5:40 pm

57. Tom, you might want to stock up. I hear Krispy Kremeis on the verge of bankruptcy

    posted by Vickey on 2-13-2009 at 5:48 pm

58. 4. The first two or three times I went to my boyfriend’s folks’ house, The Mummy was on TV. No one really noticed until about the fourth time that EVERY time I came up to their house, The Mummy was on. Now it’s this HUGE joke. Every time I come over, they search the channels and try to find it. If they can’t find it in the programming, they have it on their DVR and they just start it from there. REALLY funny guys. Really funny.

    posted by Heather Dawn on 2-13-2009 at 5:53 pm

59. 1. We moved about two years ago, except I had to pack months earlier because I was going to be studying abroad.
    Coming back I really wanted my espresso machine, and I found the actual machine but could not find ANY of the accessories…rendering the machine useless.
    In replacing my cell phone the other week (this is yet another year later) I opened up the old box to find my carefully packed away espresso machine accessories. What was I thinking?

    4. I have watched Hook a lot… Every single day one summer, and now that I am older I bought it on DVD to relive RUFIO!

    posted by Liz N. on 2-13-2009 at 6:05 pm

60. 4. The Princess Bride.

    posted by erm on 2-13-2009 at 6:08 pm

61. 4) Okay, I probably could put a few of the ones already mentioned, ie. Shawshank and Overboard, however – in the spirit of giving a film not yet mentioned – I submit

    FOUL PLAY (1978) w/ Goldie Hawn and Chevy Chase. It’s gotten so bad that I can almost do a scene by scene a la Rocky Horror. My favorite one for doing so is w/ Dudley Moore’s big scene as Swinger-wannabe Stanley Tebbitts… I am not at all ashamed to admit having all of his lines/actions memorized.

    BTW, recaptcha is ‘retold Many’

    posted by Amy on 2-13-2009 at 6:16 pm

62. Lost 25 lbs a year ago. Not to worry it came back this winter.

    Doctor Strangelove-Peter Sellers, just can’t get enough of him. The movie taught me to preserve the integrity of my precious bodily fluids.

    posted by Jack on 2-13-2009 at 6:17 pm

63. i’ve seen AKIRA probably 25-30 times. i saw it for the first time when i was 10 or 11 on saturday morning anime with my dad… and it was uncut(!) we thought it was the craziest thing we’d ever seen, so the # to order it came on screen and we snatched that baby up. my mom was pissed, but its the greatest movie ever. they redubbed it on dvd a few years back, but the original 1989 vhs version is the jam.

    posted by farik on 2-13-2009 at 6:20 pm

64. 1. When I was in high school, I had a magic hat. I lost it on three different occasions for months at a time and it always returned to me. Once in a snow-melting incident like yours, once it went on a cross country trip from NY to Utah, and it once bounced around the theater dept of my high school. It eventually was lost for good when it landed in the school security guard’s desk. I mentioned to my friend that I had lost it, she told me where it was, but the security guard told me that he had sent it to the lost and found the day before, which had been emptied *that day* to be donated to a second hand shop. Which I frequented for a few months just in case, but never saw it again.

    2. My now husband flew from Sheffield, UK to Albany, NY on New Years eve 15 days after meeting me on teh internets. It was a good time.

    4. When my little brother (who is 7 years younger than me) was 2-3, he was in love with Pocahontas from the disney film and watched the film every afternoon. I can still quote ridiculous amounts of the film if I must.

    posted by missjoules on 2-13-2009 at 6:24 pm

65. 1) One Spring, many yrs ago, my aunt and uncle came down to visit my family for the holidays. A short time after their return home, my uncle lost his reading glasses and had a replacement pair made. It was almost exactly a year LATER, when – in the process of clearing drawer space for their visit for the holiday – that we discovered the missing pair, in the top drawer of the room in which they had stayed during their previous year’s visit.

    posted by Amy on 2-13-2009 at 6:31 pm

66. We lost the key to the lock on our storage unit so we had the owner of the storage unit try to cut it off with bolt cutters but either his cutters were too dull or our lock was too strong because it wouldn’t work. So we had to call a locksmith who came with a grinder and cut it off in about a second. We bought a new lock to replace it and went about our business. Somewhere along the line after that I was on the floor in the home office and saw the key underneath the subwoofer. Instead of throwing it out we decided to keep it and to this day we have never lost track of it again (and we’ve moved since then, unfortunately losing a lot of things in the process, damn moving company).

    posted by Mike Jenkins on 2-13-2009 at 6:43 pm

67. Shortly after moving to a new town, my cat disappeared. After 2 weeks of seraching and running ads in the local paper, I was outside and heard a meowing coming from my neightbor’s garage. I looked in the garage window, and there was my cat! She had been in there 2 weeks. My neighbor was on a trip to Europe. Fortunately, another neighbor had a key to the garage, and I was reunited with my beloved cat.

    posted by Amy on 2-13-2009 at 6:43 pm

68. 4. “Clue.” I’ve seen this movie so many times that I can recite the entire thing along as I watch.

    posted by MH on 2-13-2009 at 6:44 pm

69. Another one for #1…

    Once upon a time, I had this bean bag cat (actually it was the second, my brother purposely banged the original on the side of a table, breaking it – but I digress).

    It was yellow w/ brown felt for ears/nose and brown balls for eyes – I named it ‘Tine’ and loved it!

    Anyway, it was some time later, that Tine 2 disappeared and I couldn’t find her anywhere. Many yrs later, while removing the MATTRESS from my bed (I’m not sure why we were doing this) , we found poor Tine 2 squished underneath it. This time, there weren’t holes from which beans escaped… however, the beans in her head had shifted and it flopped over like a baby that can’t yet hold it’s head upright.

    And where is she now? I’ve no idea yet again!

    posted by Amy on 2-13-2009 at 6:46 pm

70. I once lost a hard contact lens in a large swimming pool. I opened my eyes while under water, forgetting that I had my contacts in. It was found a few days later in the pool filter and because it was the hard kind, I was able to sterilize it and use it again.

    Too many bad dates to think about!

    After Hours, Pretty In Pink, Breakfast Club, Vacation, old Clint Eastwood westerns.

    posted by Pam on 2-13-2009 at 6:49 pm

71. 1. More something that would not stay lost. Years ago my husband (when he was still my boyfriend) went to work and was given a small hoop earring by the desk clerk. Apparently some random woman had gone in earlier and left it for someone there, but the person on the desk who accepted it wasn’t there when my hubby got there and the person on the desk at that time wasn’t too sure who it was for, but thought it was for hubby. Of course, no info on the mysterious woman either. Hubby took the earring and put it in a pocket of his smock and forgot about it.
    Week or so later someone from the laundry comes up and offers him this earring that they had found in a random smock. They had no reason to think it was his, but they had noticed that he had pierced ears (that he hadn’t worn anything in for years) and thought it might be his.
    He brings it home and tells me the story — we figure it was likely meant for someone else entirely, or possibly his psycho ex brought it for him for some weird reason. He throws it into the back corner of the ultra-cluttered living room.
    Months later, while packing to move, we find the earring clipped into a caribiner. It was one of the heavy-duty kind that has a screw-lock, and the earring was locked in. Nobody had seen it since it had been thrown, and certainly nobody had put it on the caribiner, but there it was. I decided it was fated and discovered it made a perfect toe-ring, and have worn it ever since — 15 years and counting!

    posted by Denise on 2-13-2009 at 7:00 pm

72. 4. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind and The Holiday. Both stories of my life. As for books, The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers hands down. Cannot live without reading them at least once a year….which reminds me…it’s about that time now.

    that’s about it.

    posted by Hidden Sunshine on 2-13-2009 at 7:31 pm

73. 1. I lose things constantly. Everything from my keys to my flash drive to books. Thankfully, I can usually find the keys within a few minutes of frantic searching. The books, on the other hand, are likely to be found lurking behind pieces of furniture months later. And by then I will have other books that need to be read.

    4. 1776 – because I have a thing for old musicals about the Declaration of Independence. Kind of pathetic, actually. I’m at the point where not only can I sing along with all the songs, I can say all the lines. All of them. And I can recite large blocks of it with out any prompting. I’ve seen the movie at least 100 times, something that the history geek within is extremely proud of.

    posted by Lauren on 2-13-2009 at 8:04 pm

74. 1. Your story reminds me one of mine. I was jumping off a railroad bridge into a deep snow bank below(it was one of our youthful drinking spots). After a few minutes of this fun, I got up and went back to me car. But I had no key(just as well as I was drunk). I went back months later in the spring(again, another drinking night) and I noticed at me feet my car keys.
    Also, I was on one of those amusement rides that look like big pirate ships that swing back and forth and eventually do a full revolution when my pack of cigarattes fell out of my pocket, and when I came back around it landed in my lap.

    4. It’s hard to say because I have so many that I watch everytime they’re on-Back to the Future I & II, Goonies, Shawshank- but I have completely worn out my VHS copy and one DVD copy of Redneck Zombies.

    posted by bobby on 2-13-2009 at 8:18 pm

75. 1: I lost my military ID card, so I got another one after getting chewed out by my First Sergeant. About six months later I found it in one of my pairs of pants that I didn’t wear very often. It was probably a good thing though, because I had just lost the new one. I just went on using the old one and destroyed the new one when it turned up a while later.

    2: I luckily haven’t had many bad dates, but I have a lot of good ones. One of them happened a couple months ago when my husband and I went to London. We’ve been there before but this time there was no goal in mind. We didn’t have to be anywhere so we just wandered through the city all day. It was great fun and the best time I’ve had in a long time.

    3: Arrrested Development. I have yet to meet a person who doesn’t like the show. And all the hype about it being incredible is right, because it is incredible.

    4: Most of the movies mentioned above could be on my list, but I’ll add a new one: Moulin Rouge. I had it on VHS before I joined the military. I was so nervous and couldn’t function when I needed to so I’d put the movie on and sing at the top of my lungs to clear my head. I still watch it every chance I get.

    posted by Tricia on 2-13-2009 at 8:39 pm

76. 1) I did not technically lose anything, but I still find this my most amazing “lost stuff” story.
    My husband came home from work, we ate dinner, then watched a movie and fell asleep on the couch. The next day he cannot find his wedding ring anywhere. We tore the house apart, moving furniture, looking through the vacuum canister, pockets of pants, coats, anything. We even kept on eye on the doggies when they did their business, wondering of one of them could have eaten it. We checked both our cars, he looked in his office and he asked people to keep an eye out for it. Needless to say I was pretty freaking pissed.
    So, a little over 5 weeks later (not a lie or an exageration) I was in our gravel driveway bringing in wood for our fireplace. One of our puppies went off chasing something, so I dropped the wood to go get him. When I came back I started gathering up the wood and there was the platinum ring. Practically invisible among the gray stones. This also happened just about a month after our one year anniversary.

    4) My first year of college I had a 19 inch tv/vcr combo, but no cable. I bought 2 cheap tapes, Office Space and The Breakfast Club. Throughout college I must have watched them each 100 times (at least) not to mention I watch them anytime they are on tv. Both awesome movies, if anyone has not seen them, I find that hard to believe, regardless you need to watch them.

    posted by kathleen on 2-13-2009 at 10:01 pm

77. 2. When I was a freshman in high school my then boyfriend told me that he was going to take me to a very nice place. I was wearing a really cute silk dress I had picked up a year before. My date showed up in lederhosen (he wasn’t German). His idea of a “nice place” was some dingy hall where a German choir was performing. We spent the night hanging out with his German choir friends all of whom were in their mid sixties. One of them asked me if I was a scarlet woman. And then my boyfriend sent me across the room so he could talk to them in private, because I was apparently not dressed properly and was making his friends uncomfortable…I broke up with him after that.

    posted by Eliza on 2-13-2009 at 10:25 pm

78. #4. I spent an entire summer watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer at least once a day. Ten years after not watching it, I still know the dialogue word for word.

    Same goes for Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and Robin Hood: Men in Tights.

    posted by Kimberly on 2-14-2009 at 12:09 am

79. 1. In 8th grade, I lost my Mom’s sapphire and diamond ring that she gave me. I obviously freaked out. About two months or so later, it turned up in the bottom of my locker at school. Huge relief!!

    4. The Sound of Music and the Little Mermaid. I watched one or the other every Sunday when I was younger, and I have seen them both many, many times since.

    posted by Alyssa on 2-14-2009 at 2:26 am

80. when i was in middle school, i rode the bus home everyday, and sat in the same seat everyday. when i got to my door my keys werent in my unopened bookbag anymore. i had to wait for my sister to get home to let me in. and like 3 months later after my mom made me a new key i got on the bus to find my keys jammed in the corner of the seat and the metal of the bus in plain sight. they just appeared there i swear.

    the worst date i went on wasnt really a date, but i was hanging out with this guy who i knew liked me. when we started talked a little but more about ourselves, he just came out and blurted that he was a virgin like it was supposed to make me want to do him in that second.

    save the last dance and 10 things i hate about you, have NEVER gotten old to me. ive probably watched both well over 200 times

    posted by nicole on 2-14-2009 at 6:24 am

81. To answer #1: My husband lost his wedding ring the night before our honeymoon. He wouldn’t go on our honeymoon without it, so we rushed up to the mall to buy a new one, barely making our cruise departure. My hubsnad remembers hearing a ping noise once or twice during the course of the night, but that didn’t help us find the ring. Years later, after finding the ring in our crawlspace under the house, we put two and two together; we suspect our cat had found the shiny gold ring on my bubby’s nightstand, decided to play soccer with it, and sent it down one of the heat register in our floor. So now my husband has two wedding rings, the original and the honeymoon backup!

    posted by Sandi on 2-14-2009 at 9:24 am

82. In 1976, my college roommate fixed me up on a blind date with a pilot. It was her way of getting her boyfriend flown in to Missouri from Oklahoma. We went to Dallas for the weekend. It was lovely, and the pilot was a dreamboat.

    Too bad I never saw him again.

    posted by Miss Cellania on 2-14-2009 at 9:26 am

83. My Most watched movie is Love, Actually. I’ve watched it about 20 times. Second place is French Kiss with Meg Ryan and Kevin Kline. And now that I’ve though about it I’ve watched that many more times..about 40…although not much lately.

    posted by Jo-Ann Burton on 2-14-2009 at 9:52 am

84. When my daughter was about 15 months old our tv remote disappered. This was about the same time she was going through a phase of throwing everything in the trash can. We always assumed that was where the remote went. About 15 years later we found the remote stuffed inside sofa. There was a hole about 6 inches long in one of the seams under the cushion in the back of the couch. That TV is now about 20 years old and we are using the original remote.

    posted by haselwoman on 2-14-2009 at 10:20 am

85. i make luch for work everyday, usually in the early morning so it is not uncommon for me to forget something like a sandwich in the fridge or something

    anyways, my car was getting fixed so my boyfriend drove me to work, it was just after christmas so i had made a ham sandwich out of left overs.

    i got to work and lunch time came around and i could not find my ham sanwich anywhere

    i looked for it all around my store and all over my house when i got home. not a sign of it.

    anways i just found the ham sandwich in my boyfriends car…yesterday

    yum!

    posted by sue on 2-14-2009 at 11:22 am

86. 1. I lost my keys and wasn’t able to get in my car where the other set of keys were (yeah, I know. It doesn’t make sense). I called a locksmith. As the locksmith was opening the door I put my hand in the inside pocket of my jacket and I found my keys. Still had to pay the locksmith.

    2. Asked a woman out to the movies. She forgot to tell me that she was married and brought her husband with. It was also my birthday.

    3.Westminster dog show:It’s a dog show, only dog enthusiasts are going to watch. Who’s gonna watch it except for them and someone who is really bored?

    4. “10 Things I Hate About You”, because that was the only movie we had in the “entertainment room” while I was in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba guarding the detainees. Watched it more than I want to say.

    posted by Patric on 2-14-2009 at 11:57 am

87. On the topic of lost things…In May of 2007 I was received a necklace…a gorgeous, expensive necklace that I picked out, in a beautiful jewelry store in Mexico….at the marina in Cabo…it was my birthday present and a souvenir from Mexico all in one. I Cherished the necklace. And then one day I went to get it from my Jewelry box and it was gone!! Do you know for two months I turned my house upside down, looked in the most unlikeliest of places, cried my eyes out, etc. For the next three months after that I just mourned it’s loss…And then one day (it was about 6 months later) I went to do my hair and lo and behold the necklace was in the drawer with all my hair stuff! Let me tell you I danced that day…And I am very careful now what I do with it…it may be only 2 years old but it holds greater sentimental value to me than most of the rest of my jewelry together!

    posted by sandie on 2-14-2009 at 2:06 pm

88. Stu’s story made me laugh and reminded me of another, very humiliating loss….in my defense I was only about 2 years old….I lost a mini marshmallow up my nose. It wasn’t found for a long, long time (it was “petrified” by the time it was found) and to this day I have chronic sinus infections….most likely as a result of this “loss”. What possessed me to put it in my nose? Curiosity no doubt.

    Another story, although not strictly mine. My great uncle came from England in the mid eighties, on a bus tour of Canada. He started at the east and worked his way west….somewhere in midcine hat he managed to forget his “walking stick”….which the hotel kindly forwared on to his next stop: Calgary…where he managed to then leave his blazer behind, with his passport in the pocket. Again the hotel was kind enough to ship this to me in Vancouver (his next stop). I had to make sure he didn’t leave anything behind in Vancouver…as this was the last stop on his tour and surely any lost articles would end up in the Pacific! (at least that is what I told him) My great uncle is now 83 and has come to Canada every year for the past 20 odd years!

    posted by sandie on 2-14-2009 at 2:31 pm

89. 4) I watched the unofficial story of Rick Nelson about six times on VH1. Three times in the hospital.

    posted by Sara on 2-14-2009 at 3:25 pm

90. 1) I lose things all the time, but one I remember very clearly involves a 2nd grade teacher. Anyone around the age of 30 remember the plastic bracelets that were slightly overlapping hearts in lots of bright colors? I had one when I was in the 2nd grade and I wore it to school. The teacher took it away from me because I wouldn’t stop playing with it. I was upset, but we both forgot about it for the rest of the school year. And for many years afterwards. When I was about to graduate high school, she found it and gave it back to me. It had been in her desk drawer all that time.

    2) The worst date ever has to be the guy who took me to see the movie Serenity several years ago. I swear, he couldn’t keep his hands to himself and talked to my breasts the entire time. That was not a repeat.

    3) People tend to overrate themselves. It’s annoying.

    4) I’ve nearly worn out my copy of the Jennifer Ehle/Colin Firth version of Pride and Prejudice. And when it does wear out, i will buy another!

    posted by Laura. on 2-14-2009 at 3:31 pm

91. My answer to #1:I dated a boy in high school, and we stayed friends after breaking up. After high school, we went our separate ways, making contact every now and then. I attended his first wedding, even caught the bouquet. We lost touch after a while, and didn’t see or speak to eachother for nearly three years. I moved from Florida to Tennessee. One day, a mutual friend sent out one of those annoying chain emails. My old boyfriend’s email address happened to be in the “cc” box. On a whim, I decided to email him and see what was up. Long story short, we got married two years later. Boy am I glad I found him again! :-)

    posted by Christy on 2-14-2009 at 4:46 pm

92. i lost my turtle once. in college, before i got smart enough to get a screen for the tank, i came home one day and Sam Turtle (a red-eared slider turtle) was gone. just gone. AWOL. MIA. he was missing for several days. then while i was at work, i got a phone call from my roommate. he was sitting in the living room watching TV and my cat comes into the room with Sam in his mouth and drops the turtle on the floor. the turtle was fine, and i promptly went out and bought a screen to act as a cat-deflector. i still have the turtle and the cat. both are doing well!

    posted by the creature on 2-14-2009 at 5:36 pm

93. 1. I lost my anniversary ring while packing to move in May 2007. I looked everywhere and even after moving again a year later, never found it. When going through a box of my son’s old clothes in December 2008, I found the ring at the bottom of the box. I had packed the box since losing the ring – I think it must have fallen off my finger into a shoe of his that I repacked! My husband generously had bought me a replacement in the meantime.

    posted by Alison on 2-14-2009 at 6:29 pm

94. 1. One day, my wife could not find her wedding ring. We searched high and low for it, and eventually, my four year old daughter confessed that she had been playing with it and dropped it down the bathroom sink. Her six year old sister then corroborated the story by claiming to have seen her do it. I immediately pulled the trap off the sink and combed through the gunk hoping to find the ring. No luck. My wife is now distraught because she is convinced her ring is gone forever.

    Fast forward about 2-3 weeks. We were cleaning the kids play area and there’s my wife’s wedding ring sitting on a shelf!! We immediately call the girls in and quiz them as to why they had told us the tall tale of what happened to the ring. Their response “I don’t know.”

    4. Army of Darkness. I own no less than FOUR versions of this movie, and have watched ALL of them too many times to admit, both with the commentary and without. Also The Princess Bride. Inconceivable!!

    recaptcha: promo deficient

    posted by Anthony on 2-14-2009 at 10:23 pm

95. 2. Worst date: The guy, for some reason, decided to pick me up by the waist and carry me across the street. He underestimated how short I am and released me with my feet still a few inches from the ground. I landed flat on my face on the sidewalk, knocked out one of my front teeth and bit through my bottom lip. I will never forget the sensation of feeling something gritty between my teeth and realizing I was chewing ONE OF MY OWN TEETH. I spent the next day in the ER on an IV after the hole in my lip got infected, and the day after that in the dentist’s chair getting my front tooth reconstructed. To top it all off, when he saw the gaping hole in my smile, the guy commented, “It’s not like you had perfectly straight teeth to begin with.”

    Needless to say, that was our last date.

    posted by KarenInJapan on 2-14-2009 at 11:02 pm

96. Several years ago I lost my car key in a river while swinging off a rope,(I assure you its probably in the Gulf of Mexico). Ever since then I owned one key to my truck, always paranoid about not losing it. Well several months ago I woke to go to work and could not find my key, so I took my friend’s car and asked him to look for it but to no avail. Finally I called the locksmith to come by the house and pop the door open.

    Once he did that my friend and I started looking inside my truck just in case i locked them in. While doing that the locksmith said “hey here you go” and threw a key to me. I asked if he already made the key and he answered “no. That’s your key, I found it in the bed of your truck.”

    Somehow I must of dropped it next to my truck and someone came by picked it up and instead of knocking on my door and saying they found a key they went ahead and left in the bed of my truck. That was nice of them…

    posted by Edgar on 2-15-2009 at 2:09 am

97. 4. The Nightmare Before Christmas and The Princess Bride. Those two movies made up my childhood and I continue to watch them; probably seen ‘em both hundreds of times.

    posted by Aemi on 2-15-2009 at 2:41 pm

98. 1. Around September two years ago, I realized that I was no longer in possession of my driver’s license. It was peculiar, but I didn’t think much of it, just downloaded the DMV form to send away for a new one (I attend school 700 miles away from my hometown.) The fee for a new license, however, was $35 which seemed impossibly steep at the time. So the form sat on my desk waiting till I could pony up the cash. While that form sat there, I was hired at a new job driving handicap vans, crashed said van, was in a vehicle pulled over by the cops twice, flew four times, got into quite a few bars. The absence of my license was, to my dumb luck, a non-issue. By the spring, I had pretty much given up on getting a new one. I got a text from my sister in June informing me that she’d found my license wedged between my car seats back home. And that’s how I saved 35 bucks.

    posted by Kay on 2-15-2009 at 9:58 pm

99. I have another keys story. It was about 5 days before my lease was up and my keys were due in. I was busy moving all of my stuff from one apartment to another about 4 blocks away.

    At some point that night, I lose my apartment keys, but still have my car keys… which is probably why I didn’t notice the lack of car keys. I went and retraced every single step I took that night, but couldn’t find those keys.

    I was volunteering the next day, so I had my roommate try going to the hardware store to get duplicates made. The owner of the store is some surly old man who yells at him and cites all of the codes he’d violated for copying the “do not copy” key. My roommate leaves the store stunned and more knowledgeable about municipal codes.

    I come home, find out the bad news and realize I need to A. get a new copy of the key made and B. continue bringing my stuff over to the new apartment.

    I set out on A first and go to get copies made. Luckily, it’s not the owner, but a could-care-less-college-kid working. He makes my key in no time. Time to accomplish B. I take a load over to the new apartment, step out of my car, and the first thing I see… my keys. I just burst out laughing, pick em up and continue on my way,

    posted by Kevin on 2-16-2009 at 5:31 am

100. Lost key story, not mine but my mother’s. I was in college and I get a call from my parents asking if I had the car keys. It was for the minivan and I said no but searched anyway. My mom was going crazy, the keys were missing for weeks but luckily they had a spare.
     About a month (probably longer) after the keys went missing my cousin in Florida calls and says there were car keys in the box of baby presents my mom had sent to them for their new baby. She had packed the box and somehow dropped the keys inside. They didn’t mail the box right away and were probably sitting in the trunk of the car while waiting for the box to get mailed. My cousin joked he thought we bought them a car!

     When my brother was 2 and I was 11 he watch the Lion King twice a day. I watched it by default.

     posted by Jenna on 2-16-2009 at 3:49 pm

101. 1. I got the Swatch watch with the green & orange band and the fish on the dial. I absolutely loved it. Until it went missing. Seriously, 15 years went by, and my Grandma found it zipped up inside a sofa cushion. I had the battery replaced and it works fine.

     2. Worst date, first date with a guy, half way through he told me had “done some time”…date was over then and there.

     4. I have probably seen Clue over 1,000 times. I’m listening to it on my ipod right now. I know it’s a horrible movie, but I was obsessed as a kid and I suppose I still am.

     posted by Jamie on 2-16-2009 at 5:36 pm

102. A few years ago, I went on vacation to the same rental house our family always goes to every summer. As I unpacked, I realized I couldn’t find my brand-new prescription sunglasses anywhere, I must have left them at home. When I got home a week later, I searched everywhere for them, to no avail.
     The next year, when my family arrived at the rental house, we began to unpack, and up on a shelf in the kitchen was a pair of sunglasses with a note under them that read “found these in the driveway, do they belong to anyone?” A year later, there was my glasses!

     posted by Tamatra on 2-17-2009 at 1:38 pm

103. A few days before Christmas ‘05 I took my diamond earrings off and put them in the same place I always put them. The next morning I went to put them on and one was missing. I searched everywhere for them, at work, in the sink, in the carpet…and eventually gave up. I ended up having to use some fake earrings to keep the second ear piercing open which irritated my ears and caused them to close up! A year later I was cleaning out the shoes in my closet and in the corner…under a shoe… was my earring! (The closet is right behind the area where I keep my jewelery)I have no idea how or why it was there…but it was and now I can’t wear them because the second piercing has closed up..( I had pierced my ears a second time just to wear them). I have them there in a safe place together and will eventually get my ears pierced again to wear them.

     posted by Christie on 2-17-2009 at 6:20 pm

104. 4)My most-watched movie is also B.t.t.F…but I’ve only seen it a relatively paltry dozen or so times.

     posted by NYCGirl on 2-18-2009 at 2:35 am

105. 1. I’ve lost more highlighters. Once, sure I lost my highlighter, I bought another one. Guess what turns up ten weeks later? My OLD highlighter. I gave it to my brother.

     2. Do father-daughter dates count? Best would be me and Dad watching HSM 3 together.

     3. I’ve watched Scooby-Doo movies a few times. They’re more-watched than my other DVDs, not counting CSI (cleared Season 1-5, got no Season 6 thanks to a con artist, and currently watching Season 7).

     posted by Jen Pen on 5-8-2009 at 3:35 am

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