I had bought a pair of good pants for work about a year and a half ago. While doing my rounds a couple of hours into my shift, I dropped some stock and it got all over the floor. While I was picking up the pieces, I felt my pants tear. I immediately walked to the bathroom (which luckily I was quite near) to survey the damage. Nothing horribly embarrassing but large enough to throw them out rather than sew up the hole. I had to finish my shift and if anyone noticed, no one said anything. When I got back home (a 25-minute walk in the middle of a Canadian winter, not the best journey to undertake while wearing torn pants), I noticed the receipt for the pants was nowhere to be found. Damn!
But I shrugged it off, waited for my next paycheck, and replaced the lost pants. No harm, little foul, and I'm out a bit of money, so what.