This isn’t a perfect example of something I personally lost. But more a perfect example of something that somebody did that kind of embarrassed them but at least they were honest enough to fess up to it. When everybody involved happens to be good friends I guess it makes it easier to be honest even if you have to eat a little crow or however you want to see it🤔
Here’s an amazing short story. And when I’m telling a story just a fact that it is short is in itself amazing.
About 10 years ago a whole Lotta folks showed up at a Major Yoyo Contest. That particular year I didn’t show up. A sponsor Duncan player(a friend) had a few of his signature yo-yos that he had personally tweaked a little bit and he had them with him at the contest. He really wanted to give one to me but I didn’t happen to be there. Once he realized that he found somebody else that was a mutual friend that he could trust to make sure that the yo-yo got to me. So he wouldn’t have to mail it or anything no big deal.
The gift giver and the middleman recipient, both went back to enjoying the Yo-yo Contest, etc…
Once my yo-yo friend returned home from the contest he put some of his stuff in the closet unpacked the rest and went back to the Daily grinds of life.
About six or seven years later my yo-yo associate decided to do some housecleaning and straighten out some stuff in the closet. As he was going through one of his bags lo and behold there was the yo-yo that was given to him that he was supposed to give to me years ago. The original giver never asked me hey what did you think about that yo-yo? So I never had the opportunity to say what yo-yo? Ignorance is bliss you could say.
Once my friend discovered the yo-yo, he could’ve just said nothing and just shrugged his shoulders. But seeing how he’s one of the most honest guys I ever met in my life he decided to cough it up contact me and say, ‘Oh man, you’re not gonna believe this but…
So the next time I met up with my friend he handed me the yo-yo sealed in his package with an autograph from my other friend (a yo-yo celebrity) and I took the yo-yo home and I put it in a drawer in the kitchen at my old house.
A few years later my girl asked me if she could use that one bottom drawer I should say in the kitchen to put in some Tupperware stuff that she had purchased. She asked me if I could put the yo-yos in that drawer in a box and take them down to the shop? Sure ‘Mo’ said, and I pulled out the whole drawer and started taking ‘inventory’.
At the bottom of the drawer in the left corner towards the back there it was on lost and remembered again and I was like what the heck?
This took place over a period of about a decade. And the yo-yo is still in the sealed container and the sharpie autograph on the outside plastic looks like it was just done a week ago.
Fact is stranger than fiction🐥
Did you contact him later and say, “Hey BTW, thanks for that yoyo!”?