Last December I lost one of those small USB flash drives. I couldn’t find it *anywhere* and figured I left it onsite at a job and someone took it.
This weekend I was sitting inside talking to my girlfriend. She had a few files that she wanted to move off her computer but she didn’t want to waste a CD to do it. I told her if I hadn’t lost it she could use my USB flash drive and I explained what it was. She told me to hold on and walked outside. When she came back in again, she handed me a small grey piece of plastic.
It was the USB flash drive I’d lost in December! I pulled off the cover and it had a little dried mud just inside but otherwise looked fine. I plugged it into my laptop and everything was still there and worked great.
Turns out she found it the day before when we were doing some landscaping. It was in a pot at the front of the house that had been sitting in need of transplanting. She saw it and didn’t know what it was so just left it sit while we were working and then forgot about it.
The best I can figure is that in December I was coming up to the house and took my keys out of the same pocket where I put the USB flash drive and it fell on the ground. After this, either someone else walking up to the house picked it up and threw it in the pot or when I was shoveling snow, I picked it up in a shovel-full and somehow landed it in the pot.
In any case, it sat in that pot for almost 7 months through the rest of winter, spring, and part of summer – surviving freezing cold, snow, rain, and heat!
PNY technologies, Attache brand, 512 meg USB flash drive.
No brainer. Buy one.
Just put it on your keychain or something so you don’t lose it!
I will also endorse the Sandisk Cruzer Titanium… Mine has been *washed and dried* twice (after leaving it in my pants pocket) and is still going strong…
Technology rules.
Someone may have thought it was a plant spike (nitrogen dispensor), regardless, you got it back and though having some carbon scoring, it was otherwise finy; lucky you! Perhaps an animal found it, then discovering it wasn’t food, dropped it out of its mouth.