Losers Jeepers, Finders Weepers: Tales from the Symposium Lost & Found
By Carol Quist
Sunstone’s Associate Editor and Office Manager
A set of false teeth on a salad plate?
Yes, one August as I worked at the Salt Lake symposium’s registration desk, a hotel server handed me a set of false teeth that had apparently been left in the restaurant.
One high-heeled shoe?
True, another year during final cleanup, I removed the registration table drapes and found one, just one (1) woman’s dressy, red pump. I didn’t search for the other shoe nor the woman.
The owner had almost immediately claimed his teeth, and I shifted the single-shoe dilemma onto the hotel’s Lost and Found department.
We find (or are given) many pens, pencils, notebooks, books, sun and other glasses, sweaters, a few electronics such as cell phones and cameras, keys, credit cards (all of which we’ve returned), a man’s ring, a woman’s bracelet, and a race timer.
Our symposium Lost and Found box acquired so many glasses, we finally donated them to the Lions’ Club vision campaign. This year we received another pair, but owners have claimed all the sweaters and electronics. Only the orthopedic seat cushion still languishes in our office.
This past summer, our largest find was a stylish leather laptop case including computer, birth announcements (a clue as to ownership)–and hurray!–a checkbook with ID. So we announced the find. While reclaiming it, the owner gushed, “Oh, thank you, thank you. For weeks, my husband and I have wondered where that checkbook went.”
Ultimately, of course, to the Sunstone Symposium.
September 11th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
So that’s where my false teeth wound up… mystery solved!!
September 17th, 2008 at 2:17 am
I want my red pump back. Yes, I’m a man; don’t ask and I’ll not tell.