re: #104 Backwoods_Sleuth

That was my mood last night.

We were doing the last of the Christmas shopping, had a cart full of bags, and were loading the car. I was putting a load in the trunk when I saw my wife was pushing the cart away. I asked her, “Did you get everything?” and she said yes.

We get home and she starts cooking dinner, when the kids and her say they can’t find the gift they got for her best friend. We go thru the bags and the car, and its not there.

Back to the car for me. I drive back to the mall. I try checking the carts in the parking lot. Nothing. I hit 3 different lost and founds. Nothing. The store where she bought the gift was about to close, so I duck in and buy a replacement. As I’m heading back out to the car, I make one last check of the carts.

“Hey Buddy? Did you lose a bag?” There is a guy in an SUV parked next to the cart return. His wife had found the bag and he had been sitting in the car waiting to see if anyone turned up. I had missed him the first time by about a minute.