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We were in downtown Toronto on Saturday night (Aug. 14th). During the
evening of walking around the streets, I unwittingly left my small yellow
grenade bag (read: my purse) in the Second Cup coffee shop there at
the corner of Queen & John Street (right across from CITY TV).

I was changing lenses at the time and in my haste to get back to the
folks I was with, I took my camera bag, but unwittingly left my little
old yellow granade bag behind.

That little yellow grenade bag had my Canon S500 camera in it...



Later, when I realized I no longer had my "purse", I hurried back to the
coffee shop, but, alas, the bag and camera were gone.

So if any one is downtown in Toronto in the next few weeks and
happens across someone carrying a little yellow ratty old grenade
bag (you know, those canvas bags you can buy for $4 at any army
surplus store) and likewise shooting with a Canon S500 camera,
tell them CJ would very much appreciate having his little camera back.

It was a nice evening, but losing my grenade bag (and the S500 camera)
put a bit of a damper on it.

CJ

Yikes! That's a real shame - sorry you've lost it.

Damm what a real shame, i really hope you get it back did you have some cool photos on it?

Oh, CJ... that's so sad! I'm sorry and hope that someone will somehow get it back to you. My husband laughed at me when I was writing my phone number in my camera bag with permanent marker right before my first trip with it.... he said I was surely one of the most trusting (or naive) people around (like someone would find it and return it) but you never know, do you? You should check back just in case someone's conscious gets the better of 'em.

isshinryu_mom wrote:Oh, CJ... that's so sad! I'm sorry and hope that someone will somehow get it back to you. My husband laughed at me when I was writing my phone number in my camera bag with permanent marker right before my first trip with it.... he said I was surely one of the most trusting (or naive) people around (like someone would find it and return it) but you never know, do you? You should check back just in case someone's conscious gets the better of 'em.

Tell your husband I think you're a wise woman.

Twice in my life I've found wallets and twice in my life I've returned
them just as I've found them.

Do I realistically expect everyone is like this? No, or course not. I mean
heck, even as kids we learned two different messages in this regard:
one message was to "do unto others as you would have them do unto
you," and at the same time we also learned "finders keepers, losers
weepers."

So no, I don't realistically expect everyone to be totally honest or even
to at all go out of their way to hunt down the owner of some lost item.

BUT, at the same time, I have observed many decent folks over the
years -- of all varieties and from many different corners of this globe --
and enough so that my faith on the matter is somewhat like yours...
that yes, there are a goodly number of decent folks out there... only
we just don't too often hear about them because the good of humans
just doesn't so often make the headline news as the more isolated bad.

But from where I sit, quite wise of you to put your phone number in
your camera bag (a practice I'll do this very evening) because as
you very well pointed out: "Who knows?"

Seems to me there's enough decent folks around that what you say
here is an extremely valid point. Or at the very least, I much perfer
that sort of optimism to the alternative.

And in like manner, not altogether convinced -- at least not yet -- that
my little S500 camera is totally lost for good.

CJ

simonkirk wrote:Damm what a real shame, i really hope you get it back did you have some cool photos on it?

Yeah, well, that's the thing: the images I had on there were going to
put me on the map as one of histories greatest candid photographers.
And I haven't totally given up on that dream with the loss of these
images, but it's just going to take me a bit longer now.

Actually, in truth, it's not so much the loss of the camera which pains
me (no, there were no images on it), but rather my ratty old yellow
grenade bag and the the small little camera pouch I had that I'll most
miss. Both of these I'd modified and spent a goodly number of hours
hand sewing to customize them (my wife mockingly calls me "sewing
boy"), and these are the two things which I perceive as the real loss.

The camera... well, the camera can be replaced. But the custom sew
work I did to that ratty old yellow grenade bag and the little hand sown
camera pouch -- those two things can't be replaced just by purchase.
And so, strangely enough, that's the loss I'm most feeling.... heck, I'd
even accept losing the camera if I could just have those two items back.

CJ

Tough break, i could handle the loss of the camera but not the photo's, i think a needle and thread will appear in your PAD soon!

...for having too many cool toys.
I'd never leave my little camera behind because it's the only camera I have to be worried about.
Seriously, sorry to hear it.