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Hello gentleman, I'll try to make this as short as possible. About 7 years ago I took a trip to North Carolina. I bought a brand new Kershaw link Tonto aluminum framed knife made in USA. I thought I left it in the hotel room and would never see it again. My daughter is taking a trip and needed to borrow a suitcase. So my wife gets the suitcase. I tell her check everything and make sure there's nothing in there. And there it was a brand new USA made Kershaw. I don't know what they cost today I haven't kept up with Kershaw. But I'm sure glad I got it back. Has something like this ever happened to you or am I losing my mind? Thanks guys
 
I have a Parker Edwards knife that was given to me by a former supervisor. It was misplaced in my house for about 3 years. I looked everywhere multiple times and couldn't find it. One day I was searching for something else and there it was.
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Vlade said:
Hello gentleman, I'll try to make this as short as possible. About 7 years ago I took a trip to North Carolina. I bought a brand new Kershaw link Tonto aluminum framed knife made in USA. I thought I left it in the hotel room and would never see it again. My daughter is taking a trip and needed to borrow a suitcase. So my wife gets the suitcase. I tell her check everything and make sure there's nothing in there. And there it was a brand new USA made Kershaw. I don't know what they cost today I haven't kept up with Kershaw. But I'm sure glad I got it back. Has something like this ever happened to you or am I losing my mind? Thanks guys
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I think you meant to say Kershaw TANTO, not Tonto. Tonto was the Lone Rangers sidekick.
 
Years ago I lost my Spyderco GB1 and found it a month later under some cat litter stuff.
 
We were getting ready to take a vacation years ago. From Virginia to Cali (where we eventually moved). Anyway, I got like $300 in fifties (from the ATM) and put in in my coat pocket instead of my wallet, not sure why. Forgot all about in the rush getting ready.
So a year later (winter again) I am wearing the same coat and find my $300. It felt pretty good. Like winning the lotto.
 
As a 3rd shift guy with a family on a normal 1st shift schedule, I am notorious for falling asleep on the couch, in a chair, and constantly lose knives... usually they turn up in the couch cushions or underneath it. I have once found a misplaced knife in a suitcase mos. after the fact. Can't recall which one it was, but yeah... Awesome that you got yours back, and right before Christmas too!
 
strategy9 said:
As a 3rd shift guy with a family on a normal 1st shift schedule, I am notorious for falling asleep on the couch, in a chair, and constantly lose knives... usually they turn up in the couch cushions or underneath it. I have once found a misplaced knife in a suitcase mos. after the fact. Can't recall which one it was, but yeah... Awesome that you got yours back, and right before Christmas too!
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Thanks it's really not that special of a knife. I intended to carry it in certain states that I knew had real restrictive knife laws. But I don't think I'll be traveling around too much anymore. It is small compared to what I'm used to carrying. I mostly carry Cold Steel Mega folders. But the law in certain States won't let me carry a mega folder. But a 3.25 inch blade pretty much good to go everywhere. Don't you love night shift. 7:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m.. at least the bosses ain't around. I'm retired now though. But I've worked a ton of night shifts. The worst I ever worked was a southern swing shift. 7 days 7 second shifts 7 Nights and then you got four days off. You didn't know if you were coming or going. But we were getting huge paychecks so it was worth it. Working Man Blues
 
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I lost my hay knife with camo scales out in a pasture and found it about a year later. That's why I like orange knives now.
My orange Endura EDC disappeared one day. A couple days later I was at the feed store and they had found an orange knife and knew it was mine.
A friend in PA lost his KA-BAR Mule one autumn and found it again in the spring after the snow melted, good as new after cleaning (and it was 10 years old at the time).
 
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Evidently your cat ate it and pooped it into the litter box, burying it as cats do.
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Naw, not in the litter box. Under some supplies lol.

I'm lucky to not have woken up with it stabbed through my gut by one of my kitties.
 
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I once found a Kershaw Leek in a puddle. It had been run over a few times in the open position, and the aluminum scales were pinched resulting in the knife being a fixed blade conversion.
 
I never found a leek in a puddle, but, I did take a leak and make a puddle a lot of times.

Then there was this time I found a .44magnum Virginian Dragoon in a dresser drawer. I forgot I had it.
 
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