We missed my husband’s passport 3 hours before leaving for Fiji. Thought we wouldn’t be able to go. We tore the office APART. Then, on a random, desperate whim, he called the guy whose truck they’d used to drive to Mexico 2 months earlier. This guy couldn’t get out of a meeting to check for an hour. A loooong hour of checking every file folder, every drawer, every sock.
In between the seats in the back of the truck. We just made the flight. Now we have one of those fireproof safes and we’re supposed to keep them in there. I can’t get it open to put them in, but I know where those darn passports are anyway. I check periodically to make sure they haven’t vamoosed.
I chucked mine into a desk drawer, when I needed to tidy up quickly, thinking I would later go back and put it away in the proper place. HA HA HA.
Now that we have all laughed …
Because the drawers were nearly full up, the passport got pushed up and back, so it lodged behind the actual drawer. If you are looking through drawers, be sure to take them out so that you can look back in the track. (If you don’t find your passport, you may find something else fun and exciting!)
And I know this is going to sound crackers but seeing as you’ve looked in the normal places and not found it, why not try the weird places?
In the freezer
Behind the washing machine
Under your matress
In the wardrobe
In one of the kitchen drawers where you keep the spoons
In the bathroom cabinet
Etc
I once found my driving licence in the bin. God knows why I’d thrown it in there, but I’m glad I spotted it before it got chucked in the wheelybin and sent off to the tip.
Try the library. I misplaced my passport a couple weeks ago and that’s where it turned out to be.
I had been carrying it around in my bag because I needed to send it off to be renewed, and then I went to the library to return some DVDs, and it was between my DVDs when I dropped them into the return slot.
A couple days later, I practically tore up my house looking for my passport. I was sure it was still in my house somewhere, but I thought it would be a good idea to retrace my steps and make sure it wasn’t in any of the places I’d been in the last few days, and lo and behold, it was in the library’s lost and found.
I would look in places where things of a generally similar size and shape are kept. Where do you keep your pocket calculator? Your bank/building society passbooks? Your train pass? Your iPod? It could have got stacked up neatly and put away with one of those kind of items.
Have you recently needed to present your passport as ID support in a non-travel situation? Such as applying for a library card, bank account, some other ID, etc? - if so, could it be folded up amongst some paperwork connected with that?
Tell you what. I’ll come over and try to find yours, if you come over and try to find mine.
It is with all the other important papers, like birth certificates and our marriage license. For what it’s worth, I’m sure they’re all in a very safe place.
My phone number isn’t in my passport. (Should it be? There isn’t a place for it.) I suppose they could have looked me up in the library system though, huh? Well, I got my passport back in the end, and it is currently…I don’t know, probably sitting in a pile in Philadelphia, waiting to be extended for another some number of years.
I remember when I was young and looking for something my mom would insist on me searching. . . wait for it. . . In places that I had most definitely not been since I last had it.
Examples include:
The mud room… Even though I didn’t even go on that side of the house since I came in with said lost object in my hand two hours before.
The car. When I havn’t been in the car since the night before and I had the thing that morning.
In all the coats. In summer. When I havn’t worn a coat in months.
