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Dickhead boyfriend

64 replies

Lilyloo456 · 16/06/2017 15:42

Please help. Due to fly to Greece next Friday, however boyfriend can't find his passport ( why he's left it till now to look for it is another matter). Getting a new one is out of the question as there's no guarantee it will arrive in time - so it looks like I will be going by myself. My question is will it cost anything to get him taken off the booking?
I may sound like a callous cow but I've been crying all day at how much of a idiot he is and I'm not prepared to lose a good holiday just cos he's a useless idiot Smile

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Dailystuck71 · 16/06/2017 19:30

Just because he can't find it doesn't mean it's not there.

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Lilyloo456 · 16/06/2017 19:53

I've turned the lounge and bedroom upside down looking ( don't trust his version of looking ) still can't find it. It's probably in a really stupid bloody place. 🙄

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ShinyGirl · 16/06/2017 20:06

Tell him to look behind the unit, they are always down the back having fallen out of drawer. Look inside at the back where it's got wedged Smile

GreenTulips · 17/06/2017 00:03

Is it in his car?

Did he put it in a suitcase or travel bag/rucksack?

DelphiniumBlue · 17/06/2017 00:13

I've known a few people lose passports, it normally seems to happen when the passport has been used for ID purposes. Could it be in a work bag, work locker, jacket pocket?

WelshMoth · 17/06/2017 07:08

It'll be in a pocket somewhere
Or a drawer near your laptop/PC

KarmaNoMore · 17/06/2017 07:13

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MissBax · 17/06/2017 07:19

I'm surprised you're considering him not coming if the passport is in the house! Get off MN and get searching until you find it. I keep mine in my underwear drawer.
Is he even looking for it?

OfNoFixedAbode · 17/06/2017 07:21

I used the within a week service, appointment on Friday, passport arrived Tuesday so it's worth a shot.

Barees · 17/06/2017 07:24

OP, gently, does he really want to go? Why is it you turning the place upside down looking and not him? Is he particularly distraught about this situation?

Get a friend to come with you. You'll have loads of fun!

LunarGirl · 17/06/2017 07:32

Unless you have a black hole in your house i do but it's purely reserved for socks then it will be there somewhere. You have a week to find it. Check everywhere, then check again. It will no doubt be in a really stupid place that you've overlooked because there's no way it could be there.

I second checking the scanner, also behind all drawers, fridge etc. I found my bank card once wedged in between the folding part of my drop leaf table.

Fingers crossed you find it!

00100001 · 17/06/2017 07:35

Keep him looking. It won't have grown legs and walked away.

Intransige · 17/06/2017 07:37

He really needs to look for it properly. Room by room, make a list of every single place in that room that a passport sized thing could hide, and look ALL of them.

rizlett · 17/06/2017 07:39

A previous mnetter had this same issue recently - only with her passport - she found it in time - it had fallen down the back of a drawer.

QuinoaKeen · 17/06/2017 07:43

The safe place in our house is the top of the fridge. Amazing how many things turn up there...

InvisibleKittenAttack · 17/06/2017 07:59

Right, it is in your house, assuming you don't live in a stately home you can search every inch of your home this weekend!

Start at the back of the house and work forward, every cupboard, drawer, the gaps above the white goods and the kitchen tops, between books on book shelves etc. Don't just look in the rooms it "should be" in, every inch of the house. Do the loft last if you need to.

Be like a police forensic team - it will be there you just need to look.

Moonshine86 · 17/06/2017 08:02

Can you not say damaged therefore got rid of rather than lost?

Tiredemma · 17/06/2017 08:06

You need to tear the house apart

Mehfruittea · 17/06/2017 08:18

Invisible is right. Be methodical. Start in one corner of the room and move out along the wall and so on round each room, checking off every conceivable space before moving on. Don't just look under furniture but move it. You can do this. Then he will owe you big forever!

JigglyTuff · 17/06/2017 08:28

No, he needs to tear the house apart. The OP needs to find out how much it will cost to change the name on the booking and see if someone wants to come on holiday with her for )69 or whatever it is. .

WelshMoth · 17/06/2017 08:48

If he keeps it in a drawer, ask him to take all drawers off. Things notmally fall under.

Good one, Karma - this actually happened to me and with passports too - totally forgot.

Take drawers OUT or better still, get Dickhead to do it.

feel bad calling him dickead but in the spirit of the thread

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Lilyloo456 · 17/06/2017 09:12

He was working yesterday so I was the loon turning the house upside down. Then when he came back he started looking for it ( annoyingly in all the places I'd looked a million times) yes I was pissed off as he didn't seem that bothered which is why I've said I'm still going by myself or take someone with me ( which is unlikely as a: I have few friends and b: it's such short notice the friends I've asked came get time off work 🙄 I've looked in and behind drawers, taken them out, moved the sofa, looked on top the fridge ( found the cat brush I was looking for 6 months ago ) he's going to ring the passport office in a min to try and get a appointment asap and go from there.
I remember seeing it as mine, my kids and his passports were all together ( my kids have just recently been abroad with their dad so I kept them all together) they were all ok the shelf in the lounge. And I'm pretty sure his was with mine and put behind his paperwork but now it's not. It's bloody annoying 😩😡

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Crumbs1 · 17/06/2017 09:40

It hasn't walked so is in the house. You need to search methodically and calmly, one room at a time. Cover ever single inch of the room. Behind and on top of cupboards, empty drawers (replace items immediately to avoid chaos), under mattress, in cases, bags, boxes. Literally like a police evidence search. It will take several hours but passport will turn up.

Shylo · 17/06/2017 09:46

My OH lost his a few months ago - turns out it was in the pocket of the jacket he'd travelled home in when he last used it. But he only found it after a four hour search and a trip back to his parents house an hour away in case he'd left it there. Idiot

Good luck with the hunt

Trickycat · 17/06/2017 09:48

Coat pockets? Under towels in airing cupboard? Sock drawer?

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