Associated Press reports on a North Carolina serviceman who lost a wallet 43 years ago only to have it surface recently during a building renovation in Pittsburgh. The $300 that was in it was gone but he said he still wants the wallet:
I want it for sentimental reasons,” he said. “It’s not every hip ‘n’ stitch that someone finds the wallet they lost 40 years ago.
Now, I’ve been around a while, most of it in the South, and I’ve never heard the phrase “hip ‘n’ stitch.” I’m wondering if the AP reporter misheard “happenstance.” Anybody got a suggestion?
