Found a fiver on the floor of Pret a Manger
early in my drinking career i found a crisp £20 on the doorstep rushing into a pub to catch last orders. Mild was 65p a pint then. Three people could have quite a lot of fun in the 10 minutes of before the bell for that kind of money.
IIRC we woke up in my friends bedsit with two other finds- a life size cardboard cut out of Maurine Lipman and a revolving sign that may have come off the roof of the Walls Ice Cream depot but we weren't sure.
A block of semtex with wires sticking out of it on a beach on the Isle of Man - bomb disposal, helichoppers the lot turned out
huge bag of porn in a hedge hiking on our way to a patrol camp at scouts, obviously over-excited me as i had an asthma attack and had to be taken home later that evening!
bag of weed on a nightbus 🙂
£20 note on the floor of a Lidl. On a negative note, I'm pretty sure that I've lost more than £20 in my life in misplaced notes.
An iPod shuffle, and a 20€ note on the trail which, combined with pro-discount, covered nearly half the cost of a new set of Oakleys!
Lots of good finds 🙂
Here's mine.
On my birthday this year my new GF and I were staying in the Cotswolds in a Shepherd's Hut (Gypsy Caravan) thing. Glamping or something.
We went out for a walk and the GF announces she's lost an earring, a nice pearl one her sister brough back from her honeymoon. (earrings on a walk? well it was my birthday 🙂 ). Kinda spoiled the mood.
Later on in the hut/caravan I take my shoes off to appreciate the fur/hide rug and what do I feel with my feet? One pearl earring.
😀
Jon, did she have any other pear....
Actually, no.
😉
I found a poo resting at the bottom of the deep end of the local swimming pool.
I found a poo resting at the bottom of the deep end of the local swimming pool.
with your toes?
Or were you fetching plastic bricks and fished that up instead?
if thats a highlight in your life then you've made me feel a little bit sad 😥I found a poo resting at the bottom of the deep end of the local swimming pool.
with your toes?Or were you fetching plastic bricks and fished that up instead?
I was on a scuba course and the discovery of the poo helped the break up the monotony of the pool tiles.
if thats a highlight in your life then you've made me feel a little bit sad
Don't feel sad on my account, I wouldn't call it a highlight but it was certainly memorable. I was going to write something about having found true love but I made myself a little sick with the sugary sweetness of the comment.
love.
Three of us were in a motel in S Carolina on a company do - turns out the state is dry on Sundays, the bar was shut, walking despondently across the car park we find the remains of a six pack with three bottles of Budweiser in it. Ok, so the quantity and quality could have been better, but it almost makes you believe in benign providence.
Found out the next day that the N Carolina state line was a few hundred yards down the road, could have got a drink there.
And a foot length of railway track, now lives in the garage and makes an extremely useful mini anvil.
Another ipod here. A shuffle with a nike plus attached to it, after the royal parks half marathon. I was in a hurry to meet somone, and wasn't minded to give it to the marshall who'd told me off for standing on a fence to look for them, so I took it home.
It was named "Nicki's iPod", and had her run time from the Nike+. A little gentle stalking through the results found two Nickis with similar times, I emailed organisers asking them to get in touch with them, one emailed me, very grateful, I posted it back to her.
I would have been quite happy keeping it (it was etched as a corporate gift anyway, and there was some good music on there too) if there hadn't been a very good way of getting it back to the righful owner, but there was, so I got a nice warm glow instead.
hedgerow bongo
I remember that, they drink it in the Congo, don't they?
The waank bank on facebook today
Pre war Snap On 3/8" drive racket buried on a hill in Wilshire, is still in one of tool boxes and gets used for bike jobs at home.
Set of nice Allen keys in the car after a pricey service.
Four cycling caps.
Two Buffs.
About 15 cycling bottles at the bottom of the last climb in a Spanish stage race, but I was in the race, so rolled back down to pick them up after the finish.
Also found £10'000 worth of French Francs in a street in Paris.
I did similar scruff except I found an eighth just after I had missed the ferry to the isle of man and needed to waste about 6 hours at Liverpool docks .. it came in useful! !
Also found £10'000 worth of French Francs in a street in Paris.
Flip! What did you do with them?
G spot...
[i]Flip! What did you do with them? [/i]
Got them home to England then bought a mountain bike, of course.
Long story, but I think it was money from a drug deal that had gone wrong and been thrown or dropped in the street. I tripped over it while drunk and saw it was cash.
I wouldn't call it a highlight but it was certainly memorable. I was going to write something about having found true love but I made myself a little sick with the sugary sweetness of the comment.
I sincerely hope that they were two separate incidents.
A cast iron fireplace outside a dodgy second hand shop on Wash Lane in Bury, which was an exact match to the one in the bedroom of the house I was renovating 20 miles away. It was covered in pink paint and I paid £15 for it. Fitted straight into place in the second bedroom (once dipped and stripped)
Walking along the road with the mrs and spotted an undamaged tin of tuna in the gutter. Picked it up and had a look, it looked fine so popped it in my pocket. Asked what I was going to do with it, I replied, much to the wife's disgust, that my sarnies for work the next day were sorted.
She thought someone may have poisioned it and left it there!
Road kill tuna sandwiches tasted great!
My marbles, lost many years ago in a haze of ale and drugs. Found them after a long bout of sobriety, leaving my ex and taking up cycling.
Not sure if it was the best but when I was a student in Hyde Park in Leeds I was lounging on the grass on a nice day - stretched my hand out and it rested on what I realised was a bag of skunk someone must have dropped, put my other hand out and found a full packet of Marlboro Lights. Happy days. 🙂
Maria Louisa........................in a restaurant in the mid 1980s. Bloody amazing
Found a set of keys with a BMW key on it at Morrisons. Went to hand them in at Customer Services and the dickhead that cut me up earlier in his X5 was given the girl behind the counter some grief over his missing keys insisting he must have pick pocketed. Decided to buy a lottery ticket instead and hand the keys in at the police station instead.
Found a set of keys with a BMW key on it at Morrisons. Went to hand them in at Customer Services and the dickhead that cut me up earlier in his X5 was given the girl behind the counter some grief over his missing keys insisting he must have pick pocketed. Decided to buy a lottery ticket instead and hand the keys in at the police station instead.
😀
In the road on my way home from school in '84 , a very nice but slightly scratched seiko stainless calculator watch which at the time cost around 180 quid ! The bracelet pin was missing which I guessed was the reason it ended up in the road, next day swapped it for a Sanyo personal stereo and headphones with dolby watchamecallit and built in radio ( cost around 70 notes at the time and was well flash and a pile of notes around 50 I think,
Local fat millionaires greedy son was the buyer , he had to have it the fat muppet, he's still a fat greedy so and so but I'm pretty sure he doesn't still have the watch , I spent the cash on bmx parts 🙂
One of my mates also claims he found a mont blanc pen in the garden of a bloke he was working for a few years back but I always thought he stole it from the guys house, I also saw him pick up a twenty pound note from outside his sisters boyfriends parents front door which I suggested he should give them back as it was clearly theirs but he refused and said finders keepers etc, he hasn't been my friend for nearly six years now and I'm bloody glad too, theiving sh1t bag
@duntstick - same here. bought a 2nd hand phone with quite a few personal pictures on it. one titled 'me and ma mans bobby'.
same with laptops i've bought on ebay. people don't seem to wipe them. naturally i delete the pics - after a good look.
found £50 on the street in edinburgh which went on drink.
maybe no the best things found but they entertained me.
A long time ago, when I was about 8, there was a robbery at a local off licence - a day or 2 later me and a mate found a holdall full of beer and spirits in the local woods. Naturally, we hid the bag while we went home for a bottle opener and then spent the next week getting pissed. When we finished all that, another bag appeared, this time only half full of booze, which we decided to share with another couple of mates. Happy days! I still can't understand how 2 bags appeared a week apart, but it kept us happy.
I originally trained as an archaeologist, so I've found a few things - albeit of very minor historical/scientific/material value.
But for sentimental reasons, my favourite find was a broken flint 'leaf point' arrowhead (dating from the [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolithic_British_Isles ]Neolithic[/url], at a guess) on some singletrack at the Wilts/Dorset border, one summer's evening. I was rather in the doldrums at the time, in limbo after my undergrad degree and not really sure where I was going next. For whatever reason, finding it cheered me up immensely. Good stretch of trail, too. 🙂
First day of living in a new city I came across a lottery ticket lying on the ground. Checked the numbers and it had won a tenner! So basically, a stranger in York bought me and the missus a couple of bottles of wine as a housewarming gift!
Best bit is I've never bought a lottery ticket in my life.
I found a fiver on the tidemark at Felixstowe as a kid. That was pretty impressive. Other than that, I've not really had much luck at finding things.
Apparently the area round Felixstowe is amazing for finding stuff washed up from Holland-UK illicit trips. Despite spending a lot of time walking the beaches there with dogs as a kid, I've seen nothing like that.
Oh, just remembered... I found a crashed R/C aeroplane once. I repaired it, then my mate crashed it for me. Amazing.
I found Threlkeld village in Cumbria. The pub to be more specific, 'The Horse and Farrier' I believe. I'd spent 4 days hiking and wild camping over a long bank holiday weekend and stumbled into the village to catch a bus, after a well deserved pint. That was one of the best pints I've ever had.
Exploring the labs of a disused explosives factory, I found a grey lump wrapped up in greaseproof paper, with "Plaster Gelatine" written on it.
So I did what any sensible person would do - I took it to the shop and tested it 🙂
It was a dummy package.
This bike in a field. Needed a chain and some brakes.
(and a cool dude to ride it 🙂 )
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Years ago... Hedge Porn! 😆
Not so long ago I was on a local road ride, friend stopped rather abruptly in front of me I looked down and at my feet was a little bag of skunk in the road! We were rather happy after that! 😆
This bike in a field. Needed a chain and some brakes.
(and a cool dude to ride it )
Are you sure that isn't some kids bike that was stolen by drunk yobs and dumped in a field?
I hope your kid doesn't bump in to the previous owner!
So many bike bits on the Chase I leave them there now
Rear lights - literally dozens
Sunglasses - mostly ridden over and/or scratched to blazes
Gloves
Jerseys/jackets/goggles
Those fricken Rock Shox rebound adjusters
Rear mudguards
Quite a bit of loose change
Five wallets - all handed in to the bike shop
Elsewhere I have found prob £50 in dropped notes while propping up bars and prob the same again in coins on car parks and in the 'rejected coins' tray in meters - something my FIL got me started on years ago 🙂
Oh and in the interests of the thread - we found £20 while going through security at the Olympic park yesterday...it paid for lunch.
My wife always seems to find money...she found £20 in a stack of shopping baskets in Lidl once too.
I think i need to check whether I have any holes in my pockets.
[i]Are you sure that isn't some kids bike that was stolen by drunk yobs and dumped in a field?[/i]
Its possible, but it was pretty useless and took my "expertise" to get it rideable again. 😉
