My wife "lost" our taxes last week. Apparently one of the kids moved them from the coffee table, so she thought. We looked high and low. Then on a lark, I checked behind the couch. Would've been the first place I looked, and her and the kids were all "looking" around the coffee table and couch. Yep. There it was. Just because someone says they looked someplace doesn't mean they did an adequate job.
The real fun is discovering things you never knew you had lost.
Back to the subject, losing a camera, lens, or light meter is unpleasant and sad.
Or finding something you forgot you ever had!
My advice, such that it is: don't use the tailgate of your pickup any more for laying out your gear.
It's my workbench away from home. Usually if I've forgotten something was put there, it gets launched into the (covered) bed - this way it gets "found" the next time I open the tailgate. I also have a wooden divider at the closest indent, this way nothing is ever out of reach.
... and I won't tell of the time I was leaving my first professional position and placed a box of souvenirs, mementos and such irreplaceable treasures beside my desk...I won't tell you the story about a family friend/professional photographer who finished photographing a wedding for clients and put all of the rolls of exposed film from the reception on the bumper of his vehicle, while he organized everything prior to leaving for his studio ......
If my Dad was still around, he could tell you of the time that the contractor (who supplied staff for nightly cleaning of the Kodak lab where Dad worked) added a new staff member to the crew. That crew member was assigned to the customer "Inquiry" area - where customers dropped in personally and left their film for processing. That crew member failed to properly differentiate between the garbage bags and the clearly labeled Kodak film transport bags (made of waterproofed vinyl I think) that held the film that was going to be going back to be processed the next day.... and I won't tell of the time I was leaving my first professional position and placed a box of souvenirs, mementos and such irreplaceable treasures beside my desk...
right next to the trash bin...
But you probably wouldn't be able to picture my Dad and some of the other staff and management at the municipal landfill, raking through recently dumped garbage in search of Kodak bags (in bright Kodak colours, of course).
Apparently the bags were found, and no customer film was lost or damaged.
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