# I finally found it...by accident
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-found-it-by-accident/645799
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [January 2, 2013, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-found-it-by-accident/645799 "2013-01-02T03:34:33Z")
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### Author:  [@Uber\_the\_Goober](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uber_the_Goober)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2013, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-found-it-by-accident/645799/1 "2013-01-02T03:34:33Z")
My favorite Alice in Chains song: Nutshell on the album Jar of Flies.
For soooo long I could only vaguely remember it, knowing only that when I first heard it I loved it. Title forgotten ☹ So I couldn’t directly search it out…
Thanks Pandora!
Feels like a little gem of life being given back to me that I didn’t realize I’d lost.
Mundane, Pointless, and I really wanted to share 🙂
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### Author:  [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2013, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-found-it-by-accident/645799/2 "2013-01-02T17:15:27Z")
For a second there, I thought the song name was, “Nutshell on the Album-Jar of Flies.” Which sounds seriously psychodelic.
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### Author:  [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2013, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-found-it-by-accident/645799/3 "2013-01-02T17:51:18Z")
I finally found my passport. It was in an inside pocket of my computer bag. The bag that I’ve been dragging around with me everywhere I go for the past several years.
I’d been looking for the passport for over a year and had feared that I’d accidentally thrown it out in a box of junk during a move in 2011. I was about to apply for a new one.
I still have to apply for a new one, though, because the old one expired in 2011.
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### Author:  [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2013, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-found-it-by-accident/645799/4 "2013-01-02T21:41:19Z")
My accidentally found it tale, I usually have packages delivered to my work address. On Dec 23 or so I was wrapping presents at home and realized I didn’t have one box that was delivered to work. So I resigned myself that I needed to drive 20 minutes to work to get the box. As I got ready to leave I saw an empty box that I wanted to take to work to re-use, opened up my trunk to put it in there and there was the box of gifts. I had brought them home but forgot to unload them from the car. If I hadn’t opened the trunk I would have driven to work and looked all over for the box.
Oh, and another time I lost a TV remote from my bedroom. Gave up looking for it, I had no idea where it would have gone because I always kept it in the same spot on the nightstand. Months later it was found in a bag of shoes/purses that my then-wife had packed away, I guess the remote fell in there as she was putting stuff in the bags.