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“My brother’s ex and my cousin’s girlfriend worked as cleaners at the Charlotte Hotel in Rosewood, London, and the one in Mayfair (I forget the name). They and others often found the stuff some patrons left behind. Shopping bags, perfumes, random luggage, clothes, laptops, cameras, phones, and chargers. The hotel usually held them in the lost property storage for at least one month. The more expensive an item, the longer they kept it in storage (capping at six months). They destroyed unclaimed laptops, phones, and passports after six months. But they got to keep some of the other stuff they found (that’s how my cousin got a Leica Q2 camera from his girlfriend as a birthday present).”
“One of the weirdest things they found was a wooden box of long hair bound in a ribbon. The patron called to get this box back (apparently it was his late granddaughter’s hair).”
—prolix
