That is so annoying losing a glove!! It's these little things that you use everyday and you half expect to eventually lose them one day because its so natural when you remove them and you think you had put them in your pocket. I had a really nice pouch which my friend bought me and I used it for my mobile phone so the surface wouldn't get scratched when I threw it in my handbag with the rest of my junk. That lasted me over two years till I lost it in Bologna last year. Like you, I backtracked my footsteps immediately but couldn't find it. Guess some things are just meant to be.

The waste bins are a really good idea. If you have to have something so ugly standing on the streets, you might as well tart it up!! Actually, that reminds me, we have something similar in Taiwan, not waste bins though. I've been taking photos of them all the time. Must post about it sometime.