What's the most amount of $$ you ever dropped/lost/misplaced??

[annabanana]

57. The loss that affected me most was only One Dollar.

I was about 8 years old (1958) and I had gotten a nifty black and pink plastic wallet for my birthday. It came with a silver dollar, courtesy of my Pop. For some reason it seems like the prettiest wallet ever, and the silver dollar was a lot of money for me at the time.

Well, I lost that wallet and that silver dollar less than a week later at the Rec Center where I took ballet classes, I was desolate about it.

About 4 days later, I got a phone call from a nice lady who told me that she had found the wallet, and the silver dollar! I was so excited and I thanked her very excitedly and told her that I had gotten it for my birthday and was very happy that it had been found. About two minutes after I hung up I realized that I hadn't gotten her name, or phone number, or made any arrangements to pick it up or meet anywhere.

She apparently didn't notice either and must have wondered why I never came for it.

I was crushed and felt so terribly stupid and sad and I remember that all these years later.