What is the weirdest thing you’ve left in an Uber?
Is it on par with a live turtle, a fake butt, fart sensor or a much-needed leaf?
If not, you need to up your game.
Uber has released its 2024 Lost and Found Index, revealing the oddest things that people have left in the back of its cars, and some of the items are quite out there.
Items such as clothing, luggage, headphones and wallets are the most common items left behind, but some people have forgotten their frontal hair toupees, pets, a trays of meat pie, a rat skeleton and more.
Uber’s eighth annual Lost & Found Index provides a glimpse of the most popular and surprising items left behind in the past year.
Clothing, luggage, headphones, wallets and jewellery top the list of most commonly forgotten items, followed by phones, cameras, tablets or books, laptops and vapes.
But on the ‘unique’ list, special wearable mentions include a fake tooth, a furry fox tail and a fake butt.
Other forgotten items include a fart sensor, another reported a missing Jeep Liberty engine, and a third person left an autographed picture of Taylor Swift.
One report simply read: ‘I left a leaf in your car that’s much needed.’
Unique items left behind in an Uber
- Frontal hair toupee
- Hot sauce and a breathalyzer
- I left a leaf in your car that’s much needed
- Two containers with spiders in them
- A Beyoncé fold up fan
- A tray of meat pie
- Ceramic cat
- Jar of oysters
- A personalized blanket with a picture of me and my dog
- Small rat skeleton prop
- Candle that says ‘See you in court’
- A fake tooth / retainer (it’s a really small plastic piece with a fake tooth in it)
- Gray tub of surgical implants
- Police-grade handcuffs
- My live pet animal turtle
- Waist beads and a burrito steamer
- I left expensive blueberries that are special that I need that the store is completely out of. There’s two packages that I absolutely need.
- My girlfriend’s pregnant pills
- Small box containing a gnome.
- Standup paddleboard paddle
- Painting from SeaWorld. It was wrapped up in a roll and I love it.
- A playbill from the Spamalot show at the Kennedy Center
- My robot
- Benihana garlic butter
- Contraceptive Plan B from Costco and a BaBylissPRO massager machine
- A panic button
- A spear and a furry fox tail
- Taylor Swift autograph. Framed!!!!
- Fart sensor
- Bravo Con wristband
- A #bestdayever foam sign
- 3 feathers
- Fake butt
- Poster of Hillary Clinton
- Panty liner and 1,000 bucks. That’s all I can remember
- Some lotion or my thong
- Meditation crystals
- Undergarments, bread, pack of ham and mayo
- Cardboard cut out panda
- Street sign saying ‘She’s drunk’ and a picture frame
- My father’s beard softener
- Big sentimental carrying jug
- Paternity test
- WWE championship belt
- Harry Potter wand engraved with name ‘Alexander’
- Large sticker with a dancing cartoon cat that says ‘Spanky Fest’ on it
- I might have left my garden fence in the trunk.
- Jeep Liberty engine. Please call me
- I lost my wizard woman
- Three Japanese ceramic decorative cats – one gold, one black and one pink. All fist-sized.
A lot of food was also forgotten, including a whole smoked pork belly, a pan of chicken spaghetti, and a tray of meat pies.
‘I left some pasta in the back by accident,’ one user wrote to their driver. ‘Feel free to have it! It was so yummy and I didn’t eat out of the plate. Thanks again!’
The index revealed that a lot of the items left behind were red, and even though manifesting has been a trend in the past few years, many people have left all the meditation crystals behind – including purple amethysts, green aventurines and more.
Top 20 forgotten food items:
- Leftovers from Pizzeria Portofino. Soooo expensive.
- A whole smoked pork belly
- Cooler with meat
- I left the ice cream cones in your car and was worried about it melting and making a mess
- A nice cheese. Feel free to keep!
- A pan of chicken spaghetti
- Bucket of cookies
- Benihana garlic butter
- Mason jar with cilantro
- Church cookies in the trunk
- Green lettuce in a jar in your car
- Fly ass burrito
- Side of salmon
- Tomatoes (Don’t need ‘em back, just a heads up so they don’t cook in your car!)
- A tray of meat pie
- I left my pizza in your car! I can’t believe I left it!
- Bowl of meat is in your car! And i need it
- I left some pasta in the back by accident. Feel free to have it! It was so yummy and I didn’t eat out of the plate. Thanks again!
- Jar of oysters
- Small container of valuable honey
Mini Cooper owners proved to be the most forgetful, leaving their keys behind more often than others..
The index also revealed the most forgetful day of the year was January 21, and the most forgetful time was around 9pm and 10pm.
On Sundays people were most likely to forget clothing.
Lost items that peak on certain days:
- People are most likely to forget luggage on Mondays
- People are most likely to forget headphones on Tuesdays
- People are most likely to forget wallets on Wednesdays
- People are most likely to forget jewellery on Thursdays
- People are most likely to forget phones on Fridays
- People are most likely to forget vapes on Saturdays
- People are most likely to forget clothing on Sundays
Uber says the best way to retrieve a lost item is to call the driver back, but if it’s your phone you’ve lost, log back into the app, and tap ‘Activity’ on the bottom icon menu.
Select the trip on which you lost the item, and scroll down to ‘Find lost item’ in the Help menu, and then ‘Contact driver about a lost item’.
Enter your phone number to call the driver.
If they pick up and confirm that the item has been found, you can coordinate a mutually convenient time and place to meet.
If they don’t pick up, leave a detailed voicemail describing your item and the best way to contact you.
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