We have all felt the panic take over when we realise we forgot something in the taxi back home. Perhaps it was your keys, passport or phone. But someone out there has forgotten a full-sized massage table behind in an Uber in UAE – and honestly, we’re impressed. The Uber Lost & Found Index crunched the numbers from the last year and UAE residents are baffled with the results of the most unique lost items in an Uber. Here’s everything your fellow peers have lost, from commonly forgotten items to bizarre lost items. There’s even a list of the most lost items on every day of the week, if you stick around till the end!
Top 10 most unique items found in Ubers in UAE
Out of the wildest items reported lost in the UAE, these select few are truly one-of-a-kind. This list will make you sit and wonder how it is remotely possible to leave these things behind.
- Full-sized massage table: Someone was really relaxed enough to not stress about leaving this behind. We hope it was a good massage!
- Labubu: The viral monster-looking toy was forgotten and left behind. However, Uber assures that the Labubu has been riding shotgun and grooving with the driver.
- Boxing belt: A heavyweight champion (of forgetfulness) has left behind something dear. A hard loss, we must say.
- Ski goggles: Where else but in UAE would someone be riding in broad delight in a desert with ski goggles on the go? You never know when w snowstorm would hit the Arabian desert, right?
- Metal industrial blades: Honestly, just straight up flabbergasted.
- TV remote control: Someone took channel surfing to a whole new level with this one.
- Mathematical calculator: Well, someone miscalculated the probability of leaving it behind – badly.
- Hair mousse and a hair dryer: The perfect recipe for a tornado of bad hair days. With the UAE heat and humidity, this loss must hurt.
- Drone: This one was made to soar the skies, but alas, it’s life seemed to have ended on the back seat of the Uber car.
- Stroller and pacifier: There are tired parents out there wondering if the earth ate their stroller and pacifier. It didn’t. The Uber you left it in might have.
The everyday losses and most forgetful city in UAE
Boxing belts and industrial metal blades don’t make the cut, of course. The everyday essentials are a staple for every lost and found bin at Uber. If you’ve lost any one of the following items, you’re not alone and probably won’t ever be.
Commonly misplaced items include phones, luggage, wallets, headphones, glasses, keys, passports, clothing items, laptops and jewellery.
Sharjah officially wins the title as the most forgetful city in the UAE, with Fridays being the most dangerous day of the week for lost items. Friday afternoons, specifically, seemed to be the time when people check out their brains early.
The peak for number of items lost in a day was November 2, 2025. If you forgot something that day? Remember that you contributed to a larger cause and helped the numbers shine.
Lost items that peak on certain days
Sundays and Mondays are recipes for forgotten ID cards and credit cards. Tuesdays come with forgotten phones. On Wednesdays, we wear pink. But seriously, the most amount of headphones are lost on Wednesdays. Luggage takes a backseat in peoples’ minds on Thursdays. Fridays are for forgotten keys – car keys, house keys, office keys. Name it and it’s probably in their lost and found bin. On Saturdays, people tend to forget jewellery and watches in the Uber.
