Haha, my turn for a lost key story...

I sold my truck earlier this year. I always took care to mind my regular set of key and fob and never did lose that set for more than a few minutes. The spare set I kept in the bedroom dresser for 5 years until I let my sister's fiance borrow it (and the truck) for a day. When I got the spare set back, I set it down somewhere... and promptly forgot about it. Several months later, I listed my truck and realized the second set was missing so I went about frantically searching for it, with no success at all... The guy who bought my truck was pretty understanding but I promised him I'd keep looking for it. Anyway, a week after the sale, I get the truck's title in the mail and as I'm opening the envelope, I dropped the letter opener and it fell to a potted plant by my desk and I heard, "clink!" The opener dropped through string mulch and hit the spare set squarely enough to make the sound. I guess I set it down on the ledge absent-mindedly and it must have just fallen in. Who would think to lift up the mulch on a houseplant to look for a key?

The thing is, the plant's been slowly dying and was not responding to my wife's usual method of dealing with dying plant: to water it three times a day (which, BTW, never worked). So I was getting ready to throw the poor thing out, pot and all, when my wife wasn't looking. Well, good thing I didn't. I fished out the spare set that was, by now, very damp and almost moldy, but still perfectly functional.