The headline above is a comment I sometimes make to those who comment that they loose the cheap pens they carry, but the person mentioned below takes the prize.

The 2017 Travelodge list of bizarre left behinds

Where would you find a Montblanc fountain pen worth £8k, over £500,000 worth of share certificates and a 50 year old teddy bear called Rupert- where else but Travelodge’s Lost & Found office.

With nearly 19 million people annually staying in a Travelodge hotel, some of the other unusual treasures that have been left behind by business travellers include:

• Montblanc, Meisterstück Solitaire Skeleton Fountain Pen worth £8,000…

…One superstitious business man had to take a day’s holiday to come back from the Netherlands to collect his rare Montblanc, Meisterstück Solitaire Skeleton Fountain Pen worth £8,000 as he said he could not sign any paper work without his lucky pen….

https://www.hospitalityandcateringnews.com/2018/01/2017-travelodge-list-bizarre-left-behinds/