Damnit, I forgot.

[Angrist]

A guy in a movie looked like a student I used to know, so I thought "hey, let's send him an e-mail."

I hadn't seen him in 3 years. Then he mails back "Oh hey, I still have a book that belongs to you!" I figured it had to be my Essentials of Ecology book, which is pretty nice and expensive.
Then he even asked me to come over to his place to pick it up. I told him to bring it over. In the end we met in a university building and I finally got it back. And I didn't even get something nice as a sorry/thankyou.


That's the story that I had to think of because it's so similar to yours. I bet I have more exciting stories than that...