We peered through the nursery window and scanned the names on the bassinettes until we found the newborn baby boy who belonged to my friend. The cute little guy was all bundled up in blankets and wore a little hat on his head. Daddy snapped a few pictures with his 35 mm camera. We visited my friend for a bit and stopped to take one last peek at the baby before heading out.
We went back to the waiting room where Daddy had left the beat-up old purse he used for a camera bag. When we got there, we looked around. There was no beat-up old purse. Had it only been a beat-up old purse, it wouldn’t have made much difference. It wasn’t worth anything. But there was something else inside the purse – a 200 mm lens. We went to the nurse’s station and asked if someone on staff had picked it up. They didn’t think so but called Lost and Found to check. No, nothing had been turned in. We made a stolen beat-up old purse report.
A couple of days later, I got a call from the hospital. One of the cleaning staff employees found the purse in the trash can in the ladies’ bathroom.
fiber bottle 
The lady on the phone said, “All that is in the purse is a bottle of fiber.”
I asked, “Is the bottle empty?”
She said, “I don’t know.” Well, she had not looked. Why would she have looked in a bottle of fiber?
I giggled and said, “Will you open it, please?”
Then she giggled, “Oh my! There’s a camera lens in here.”
“Yep, I’ll come get it.”
Never underestimate a beat-up old purse or fiber bottle. It might just hold a treasure.
Moral of the story: Don’t judge a lens by its cover. (Things are not always as they appear).
Lens that was in the fiber bottle
Coffee mug