Back when I were a nipper...
...of about 15, I had a belt which I used to wear all the time which had a cross hanging from it (coz I'm METAL!!!!, you know).

One day, I noticed the cross had fallen off. Searching my bedroom, my path to school, the lounge, all the places I could think of produced nothing.

Then a few days later the shop my mum & step-dad owned had a new delivery of potatos, all in 25kg bags. Later that afternoon, on top of one of the new bags of spuds... the cross from my belt.

Mystified me to this day, that has.

tl;dr version: I lost something, it turned up a few days later on something that had just been delivered.
(Professor Kenny Martin Hmm? What?, Fri 14 Oct 2011, 9:28, 8 replies)

Quite clearly you were molested in your sleep, by a potato farmer.
I think we can close this case.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Fri 14 Oct 2011, 11:56, closed)

Aha!
It fell in the old potatos whilst you were drawing faces on the carrots.

Then when the new spuds arrived your folks rotated the stock.

That's that one solved. No need to thank me, it's all in a days work.
( Dervel OTBC, Fri 14 Oct 2011, 12:14, closed)

Hahaha, "drawing faces on the carrots" made me do a proper office lol :D

(Professor Kenny Martin Hmm? What?, Fri 14 Oct 2011, 12:28, closed)

Possibly in an attempt to humanise them
Vegetable rights and all that rot. (Campaign slogan?)

Also, does my stock rotation theory hold water? My ego insists on knowing.
( Dervel OTBC, Fri 14 Oct 2011, 12:35, closed)

Sadly not... the cross was literally lying on one of the new bags.
And I spotted it about 3 seconds after the delivery driver had left.
(Professor Kenny Martin Hmm? What?, Fri 14 Oct 2011, 13:21, closed)

How about this...
Cross fell off belt near front door/rear entrance/tradesmans..
Spuds are heavy...At a guess, around 25kg a bag..
Heavy spuds placed on floor near door
cross becomes squashed into paper sack/hessian
Spuds stacked in reverse order in shop, so the first sack down ends up on top of others
cross falls off due to jigglidge
cross found

Tada!
(vitty And now...F5 F5 F5 F5 F5, Fri 14 Oct 2011, 16:31, closed)

How about this one
One parent doesn't like the cross, removes and hides it. Tells other parent. Other parent shouts at first parent. First parent returns cross in indirect manner.

Edit: Does it suggest paranoia that this was my instant solution to the problem?
( MatJ LOOK, Fri 14 Oct 2011, 17:42, closed)

Haha, I think it may well do :D

(Professor Kenny Martin Hmm? What?, Sat 15 Oct 2011, 9:19, closed)