Where is my passpor...
 

MegaSack DRAW - This year's winner is user - rgwb
We will be in touch

[Closed] Where is my passport???

48 Posts
28 Users
0 Reactions
106 Views
Posts: 6
Free Member
Topic starter
 

I am planning to leave the country for a week's riding on Wednesday, and I can't find my passport. Anyone seen the blighter?

It isn't in my Big File of Important Stuff, or in the wicker basket of things I can't be bothered to put somewhere sensible, and it doesn't seem to be in my messenger bag.

Any thoughts? 😯

Cheers


 
Posted : 09/03/2009 5:03 pm
Posts: 50252
Free Member
 

Looked in your ManDrawer?


 
Posted : 09/03/2009 5:04 pm
Posts: 36
Free Member
 

is it where you put keep your spare dollars and euros?

how about the same place as your E111 card?


 
Posted : 09/03/2009 5:11 pm
Posts: 11937
Free Member
 

It's over there

------------------>


 
Posted : 09/03/2009 5:13 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

If you find it, can you see if my jeans are there too. I had a pair that have vanished - most peculiar.


 
Posted : 09/03/2009 5:14 pm
Posts: 6
Free Member
Topic starter
 

ManDrawer terrifying empty of travel documents, although it does contain a number of pairs of battered spectacles and some whistful looking condoms. ****.

Do I need an E111? That's a whole new can'o'worms... 🙁


 
Posted : 09/03/2009 5:23 pm
Posts: 36
Free Member
 

Do I need an E111?

if you cant find your passport you dont 🙂


 
Posted : 09/03/2009 5:24 pm
Posts: 17771
Full Member
 

Is it under the fridge?


 
Posted : 09/03/2009 5:52 pm
Posts: 11937
Free Member
 

Have you found it yet?

Tried [i]ctrl+F[/i]?


 
Posted : 09/03/2009 5:57 pm
 Soup
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

You're making a simple and typical mistake. Don't try the places where it should be - look in all the places it shouldn't be. I would start with the fridge and go from there.


 
Posted : 09/03/2009 6:03 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

Try the looking-for-a-random-piece-of-Lego trick - look for something else, and it will turn up...


 
Posted : 09/03/2009 6:04 pm
Posts: 396
Free Member
 

think about other things you may have used it for - i once decided to take the camera home and leave the passport on the car roof instead

or have you been to pick up any parcels?
crb checks?


 
Posted : 09/03/2009 6:05 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

Get a woman to look for it!! he he she will find it in no time at all!!??


 
Posted : 09/03/2009 6:16 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

[i]he he she[/i]

Do you actually mean a "woman"? 😀


 
Posted : 09/03/2009 6:18 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

just keep looking in the same places over and over again.

Works for me.


 
Posted : 09/03/2009 6:18 pm
Posts: 17
Free Member
 

Bigdummy - if you live with a woman she has probably tidied it up to somewhere totally logical to her but utterly illogical to you.

Its always in the last place you look...... 😆


 
Posted : 09/03/2009 6:19 pm
Posts: 36
Free Member
 

Get a woman to look for it!! he he she will find it in no time at all!!??

that's only because said woman will have "put it away for you" somewhere obscure and illogical in the first place!

EDIT: hahaha coffeeking and I are married to similar women I bet 🙂


 
Posted : 09/03/2009 6:19 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

Maybe it has run off with mrs singlespeeddan's passport as it is awol also. Try down the back of the sofa, thats where mine was. 😕


 
Posted : 09/03/2009 6:28 pm
Posts: 11937
Free Member
 

Did you find it yet?


 
Posted : 09/03/2009 9:38 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

lay on the floor, imagine you are a passport, remember where you had been last, think back to the moment you were carried in through the door.. ..etc


 
Posted : 09/03/2009 9:40 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

The woman trick works for me. I lost a copy of Call of Duty and I thought it was in my work bag. I took everything out and it wasn't there. I went to ask my wife and she said that she thought it was in my work bag so I looked again and it was there.

Perhaps she is a witch.


 
Posted : 10/03/2009 8:11 am
Posts: 6
Free Member
Topic starter
 

Zen-like calm has descended. 🙂

I [i]think[/i] it's gone AWOL while schlepping to Croydon to pick up a parcel, some weeks back. Although I am struggling to imagine myself as a passport lying in the gutter in Croydon I'm getting some quite powerful Croydon-ish passport vibes.

The woman suggested she might have put it in her underwear drawer, but she was dead wrong.

Nevermind. Re-booked flights, re-booked accomodation, Is till ahve it all to look forward to and I'll have a new passport by the time I actually get to go...

Cheers all!


 
Posted : 10/03/2009 9:28 am
Posts: 11937
Free Member
 

The woman suggested she might have put it in her underwear drawer, but she was dead wrong.

If that's where it was, you'd have found it last time you were in the house alone 😉


 
Posted : 10/03/2009 9:44 am
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

Do what I do. Have two (helps to have two nationalities at this stage), leave both with your other half. That way if you take one out for a trip, you always have a spare. I'm so crap with passports that I travel with both frequently because I've destroyed more than one passport accidentally.


 
Posted : 10/03/2009 9:56 am
Posts: 6
Free Member
Topic starter
 

[chuckles at Mike] 🙂


 
Posted : 10/03/2009 10:05 am
 IHN
Posts: 19878
Full Member
 

Is it in a folder at your parents' house, even though they swear blind that they haven't got it, and you've even gone to the trouble of reporting it's loss to the police?

Mine was.


 
Posted : 10/03/2009 10:10 am
Posts: 91098
Free Member
 

It might be with the extension lead for my lupines.


 
Posted : 10/03/2009 11:38 am
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

And the battery pack for my Rush light. 🙁


 
Posted : 10/03/2009 11:57 am
Posts: 401
Free Member
 

My Mum always asks St Anthony where things are. Only works if you believe in God I think?


 
Posted : 10/03/2009 12:05 pm
Posts: 91098
Free Member
 

I think I lost the extension lead out on the trail - improbable, but it's the only answer. The weird thing is I had two, and the other one's nowhere to be found either.


 
Posted : 10/03/2009 12:05 pm
Posts: 45
Free Member
 

Do you look under things? I swear something's disappeared when all that's needed is to lift a magazine.

I've had to apply for replacement passports on 2 occassions, the 1st lost one turned up the day the replacement arrived and then I lost the replacement and the 1st one again so got another then the 1st one turned up again...been told that if I have to apply again they'll do some investigation so given it to the wife to look after....


 
Posted : 10/03/2009 12:12 pm
Posts: 6
Free Member
Topic starter
 

I am usually the one in our house who finds things, which gives me some confidence that it really has gone somewhere wierd. That said it will presumably crawl out of the woodwork now I've cancelled everything. 😉


 
Posted : 10/03/2009 12:22 pm
Posts: 12
Free Member
 

This has got me all paranoid.

I'm going away in four weeks - do you think this is enough time to locate my passport?


 
Posted : 10/03/2009 12:39 pm
Posts: 167
Full Member
 

molgrips, did your light not go out?


 
Posted : 10/03/2009 12:43 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

never take your passport out the house as some kind of Id for parcel pick up

I'm sure thats how I lost mine

I'm always loosing clothes - every t -shirt i own that i like always goes missing.


 
Posted : 10/03/2009 12:46 pm
Posts: 40432
Free Member
 

Jacket pocket from last time you were travelling home?


 
Posted : 10/03/2009 12:58 pm
Posts: 91098
Free Member
 

Yes, but I turned it off deliberately. When I leave the woods on the way home I take off the helmet light and just ride with the bar mounted one. During the process of putting the helmet light away I think I must've dropped the lead. I could probably go back to the spot where I usually stop to take it off and check the floor...


 
Posted : 10/03/2009 1:24 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

With my battery, I KNOW I had it in the house as I had used it when exploring the loft. I have since treble-checked the loft and (because of having an extension built) have moved every single thing in my outhouse and understairs cupboard where I keep all my bits.

I did lend it to my business partner but he says there was no battery when I gave the bag to him (which was when it first came to light).

Grr

(especially big grr as Rush have gone bust so I can't get a new one).


 
Posted : 10/03/2009 1:42 pm
Posts: 91098
Free Member
 

Did you check under the loft insulation?

Making battery packs is fairly easy btw.


 
Posted : 10/03/2009 1:47 pm
Posts: 36
Free Member
 

mastiles - I thought smudge's company made the batteries for Rush anyway, so he should be able to sort your out with a spare pretty easily.


 
Posted : 10/03/2009 2:02 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

Definitely in the jacket pocket. I lost my driving license and turned my office upside down looking for it, found it a week later when I next out the jacket on!


 
Posted : 10/03/2009 2:19 pm
Posts: 91098
Free Member
 

I once lost a car key (electronic clicker kind) over most of the winter. Found it again when I got my baggies out of the drawer - it was in the pocket. Had been washed and all, still works to this day.


 
Posted : 10/03/2009 2:46 pm
Posts: 6
Free Member
Topic starter
 

Just back from a consolation prize of 2 nights at Tanners Hatch YHA in the North Downs, possibly my favourite place to stay ever. Tolerably dry trails, empty hills, walking to the pub in the dark with the smell of woodsmoke over the valley, tea in Peaslake, view of the sea from Holmbury Hill.

It wasn't a week in Spain, but it wasn't half bad. 🙂


 
Posted : 13/03/2009 5:50 pm
 Smee
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

Makes mental note to go hunt for his passport sometime soon.


 
Posted : 13/03/2009 6:28 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

View of the sea from Holmbury Hill - on a clear day maybe but I didn't think it was that high and I live quite closeby!


 
Posted : 13/03/2009 6:30 pm
Posts: 6
Free Member
Topic starter
 

I think you can see it, just. You can certainly see the light where it is. 🙂


 
Posted : 14/03/2009 12:11 pm
Posts: 11508
Full Member
 

Lost my wallet a few years ago...waiting a couple of days and when it didn't turn up I cancelled all the cards. Lying in bed the following weekend, I suddenly realised the object I'd been trying to pick up between my feet from down the side of the mattress for the last 30 minutes was said wallet 🙂 This was after I'd turned the whole room upside down and pulled the bed out from the wall!


 
Posted : 14/03/2009 1:27 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

You can see the sea from Holmbury Hill. You can also see The Gherkin, NatWest Tower and Canary Wharf.


 
Posted : 14/03/2009 1:57 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

Smee you'll need it, not using the old "lost my passport" routine to get you out of it.


 
Posted : 14/03/2009 2:03 pm