I’d “lost” my flash drive a few months ago. I never lose my things generally, but I had a suspicion I may have dropped it during the public transport to work or back. Not that I could believe I did that, as I’m kind of careful with my items, I searched my entire room and was unable to find it. Also had searched my washed pants and the washing machine back then but didn’t see it in them either. So I gave up and accepted the reality – I lost my first ever flash disk, a Transcend 2 GB JF 168 “Bamboo” themed device that had great speeds; unlike those black standard ones available back then.
JetFlash 168 - Bamboo
Then today morning, I woke up and saw it on my desk. Someone had found it while cleaning the washing machine’s internals a bit. It’s been inside the washing machine for two months and still works like a charm. Its rusted in parts now, which is sad cause I kept it in really good condition, but at least I got it back without having to buy one of those bigger capacity, slightly crappier ones available today in the low price range.
The first hardware of a kind is always special in some way 
