During the Summer we were travelling back from Ireland and V. managed to leave her passport on the plane after landing at Gatwick. You do not need a passport to get through customs so its absence was not noted until we were beyond the point where we could retrieve it.
Cue much wailing and gnashing of teeth from her parents (although V seemed pretty sanguine about the whole episode) and I recall thinking at the time, how can you forget such an important document?
After many phone calls to Cork airport (various different iterations of lost property) and an opportunity to get to know some of the lively characters working there, she eventually tracked it down and we were able to arrange for my cousin P to pick it up at Cork airport on her way back to London with Uncle K at the end of her holiday (not the first time that Cousin P has returned with various articles our family have left behind in Ireland).
Fast forward 3 months and I have just done exactly the same thing - I got to the passport control at Abu Dhabi Airport having just disembarked my flight and realised that there was no sign of my passport where I usually leave it (ie in my passport holder which I usually put in my headphones case when I am wearing the headphones on the flight).
I must have had it when I boarded so felt reasonably confident it would eventually be found but could not specifically recall where I would have left it although I had a suspicion that I had put it down in the overhead locker when I was retrieving my headphone set and simply failed to put it into the case once I had removed my headphones.
Fortunately the passport was tracked down and after a bit of a wait, we were reunited but the moral of the story is I think never judge!
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