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

Looked in your ManDrawer?

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

how about the same place as your E111 card?

It’s over there

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

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… 🙁

Do I need an E111?

if you cant find your passport you dont 🙂

Is it under the fridge?

Have you found it yet?

Tried ctrl+F?

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.

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

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?

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

he he she

Do you actually mean a “woman”? 😀

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

Works for me.

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…… 😆

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 🙂

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. 😕

Did you find it yet?

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

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.

Zen-like calm has descended. 🙂

I think 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!

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 😉

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.

[chuckles at Mike] 🙂

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.

It might be with the extension lead for my lupines.

And the battery pack for my Rush light. 🙁

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

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.

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….

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. 😉

This has got me all paranoid.

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

molgrips, did your light not go out?

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.

Jacket pocket from last time you were travelling home?

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…

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).

Did you check under the loft insulation?

Making battery packs is fairly easy btw.

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.