I put on a pair of underwear this morning and a pair of sunglasses fell out.
The week before our trip, my car was broken-into. In fact, a bunch of cars on our street. This alone is surprising. It’s a residential neighborhood where kids go in and out of unlocked neighbors homes. We lock our door but I know that not everyone does.
The funny thing is what I lost: 1 pair of subscription sunglasses; 1 pair non-prescription; 1 ipod nano; and, 1 tuba mouthpiece (Bach 18). I keep a mouthpiece in my car because forgetting your mouthpiece is a terrible experience, and it provides “a piece” that you can buzz on the way to a rehearsal and get a bit of a warm-up on the way.
The kick in the shorts was the script shades. I really wanted those on our trip. I could have scrambled to get a new pair but I had a really busy week before the trip planning for a customer visit and presentation. Plus, I’m reaching the point of needing bi-focals. Not quite there yet, but soon. And I would need to get my eyes examined – it just was too chaotic for me. Instead, I reckoned that I could wear my contacts more and get some non-script sunglasses anywhere.
Amy took me shopping on Sunday; our trip was the following Wednesday. We went to the sporting goods store and bought some light pants and the sunglasses – polarized, $29.99. They came with a free pouch. Cool!
By Monday night, I had lost them. Somehow, in washing the clothes and getting everything set aside for the trip, going to work, I had lost them. But I figured they’d show up.
I also walked around the neighborhood thinking who the hell is going to keep a pair of script sunglasses? The thief would try them on, discover they are prescription, and toss them in the bushes. Well I was half right. Apparently the non-script sunglasses were not good enough. I found those and their case in the bushes. These are cheap sunglasses, true, that I keep in my car for the occasional road trip when I wear my contacts. So, now I have two pairs of non script.
And, as it turns out, the thief had no interest in our neighbors car emergency kit. He discarded that, too. And, when our neighbor found it, it registered with them they did not originally store a tuba mouthpiece in with the jumper cables. So I got that back too.
I spent Tuesday looking high and low for the just purchased replacement sunglasses and never found them. I finally concluded that I would simply buy sunglasses in Italy, which I did: €29.99. And it came with a free pouch.
