And the horse is at a gallop!
I have a short story I want to tell you all. It happened while I was in Chicago, and is really just a story about good luck.
Yesterday (was it only yesterday?) I was walking to the eL in Rosemont, and I had taken off my cardigan b/c it was pretty warm even at 7:30 in the morning. I put my cardigan over my bag, as I do with my sweaters and jackets all the time. I got on the train and was about half way to downtown when I realized that I had dropped my sweater somewhere. I didn't have my cardigan any more. This is one of my nicer cardigans (BCBG, wool) and I was quite upset to realize I dropped it. Around noon I went to Nordstrom Rack downtown and bought myself a new cardigan. I really wasn't professional enough in my sleeveless shirt to give my presentation.
I took the train back to Rosemont after my presentation, and my feet were hurting so bad, I seriously contemplated hiring a cab to drive me the 4 blocks to my hotel. But, I'm really not that kind of a person (I like to tough it out), and I also figured that there might be a tiny tiny chance that my sweater had been laid by the side of the road and no one had taken it, and it hadn't been run over by a car.
I'm walking along (without my glasses on--I don't want to admit I need them), and I see something white in the grass. I had just seen two other white things that I got all excited about and they turned out to be trash. So I told myself to not get my hopes up, and that the white thing was just more trash. It took me until I was right on top of the white "trash" to realize it was my sweater! It hadn't been run over, and it looked to be in pretty good shape. I let out a little "woo-hoo" and smiled all the way back to the hotel. I think I even forgot about the blisters on my feet!
3 comments:
Sweeeeet. You must've had some good karma going there! Hooray for found cardigans! I still miss my gray angora cardigan that fell off the clothesline in Mexico.... ah, well. =)
'Tis better to have loved and lost a cardigan, than never to have loved a cardigan at all.
Do you still have more conferences coming up, or are you done for a while? I hope you get a break!
smellimus--love your quote! You make me laugh. Conferences are all over for awhile. I don't have another work trip planned until september!
I love those types of situations. Sometimes I like to imagine that a kind stranger set it aside...or maybe you just happened to luck out.
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