Wherever your car registration is?

Have you written a check lately?

Have you forgotten a library or renter's card and had to show it?

Have you set up a new account or service? Cell phone? Rental Something?

Have you needed something from a bank but didn't have your account number? Or to add/take money from a CD?

Test-driving new cars?

Mine sometimes slips to the bottom of my purse and can land between folds of paper or pages of books. (I go to a lot of auctions, and so it comes out regularly, and then I shove it back in my purse. Or my bra. But usually my purse

Um. Have you filled out any forms and left it on a desk/next to a computer/phone?

No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Dang.

Maybe it's in my other purse. But why would it be out at all? I keep it in my zippered-at-all-times wallet.

It feels like there's something juuuust on the other side of my brain that I'm missing, here.

I really hope I didn't leave it at the Brewers game in July. Lord.

Applying for a marriage license or blood test or something like that?

Are you absolutely certain that you ever had one in this lifetime?

Iconomy: nope, nope.

dg: oh, I am! Because we have this weird guy who runs the DMV Express (such an ironic name), and after going there twice in my life I'll be damned if I have to go back there again. Dude makes me go buy pizza because he has no change and won't accept a card >:(

I had it, but then I accidentally the whole thing.

Did you stay in Chicago? Check into a hotel?

Sometimes, a clerk will want to see it close up to write down ID info on a credit card purchase.

But I wouldn't sweat this much. A current driver's license is a very easy thing to replace. In our state, you can do it online.

I put my license in a special pocket when I fly anywhere and I can forget to put it back in its normal place. Were you changing addresses or something wedding-related [you are Madamina from MeFi, right] and left it on a flat surface someplace? The chances are higher that it's lost somewhere in your house and not lost in the larger world since people have a tendency to call you and get a license back to you. Maybe you took it out and it's in the little thingdoo between the seats where you left it for some reason? That's where I left my wallet recently.

Could it have fallen out while you were taking something else out of your wallet? I realize this doesn't help narrow it down at all :(

OK sometimes I'll take my license, a credit card and some cash and tuck them in a little purse to go out at night, when I don't want to carry my whole wallet. Could it be in a purse you rarely use? You might find a little stash of cash there too! What about in the pocket of some pants you don't wear too often? Maybe you were going out and just grabbed $20 and your license and stuck both in your back pocket.

Hrm. Everyone has suggested what I would have. Hope you find it soon!





Of course it'll be in the last place you look.

It's in your scanner!

I just lost - and found - mine. The method I used was

1) freaking out and looking all over the place anywhere it could possibly be, checking all purses, pockets, etc.;
2) developing a plausible scenario as to how I might have lost it (small child playing with jacket where it was in the pocket, therefore maybe it slipped out and slid under some furniture or something);
3) resigning myself to the likelihood it was somewhere in the house (because of plausible scenario) and I'd run across it eventually ("probably after I finally give up and apply for a replacement," I grumbled);
4) lay in bed unable to sleep last night (thinking about other things entirely) when all of a sudden in a flash of inspiration, I thought: "did I check the pocket in those shorts? where are they? let me check right now at 2 AM". And of course that's where it was. Could've sworn I checked all the pockets of all the clothes, but obviously I didn't.

I'm not being flip - it actually works out this way for me so ridiculously often. It's how I found a super-important piece of ID that I hadn't seen in some years, a few months ago. It's sort of reassuring, even, it's like I have to pay my freaking-out dues for losing something but in the end it's all right ("and we've all learned a valuable lesson, today!"). So I hope that if you don't find it after chasing down every lead you can think of, you'll have a dream about it or some other weird moment of insight that turns out to be correct: the payoff for freaking out right now. =/

I always check the wastebaskets at home when I can't find something. I have inadvertently thrown away some very important things before.

In some restaurants in PA, they'll take your license back and scan it. Any chance that happened to you?

Did you fly recently?