andrew61

Confessions of a Slacker
2008-03-07 00:00:00 (UTC)

I broke my sunglasses.

See how boring my life is lately? That was my major event today.

They were in the right-hand pocket of my black leather jacket… where I always keep them when I’m out and not wearing them at the moment. I was in the checkout line at the supermarket and I reached over to pick up one of the divider bars (or whatever they’re called). As I did so, that part of my jacket smacked into the metal casing that houses the conveyor belt, and the sunglasses snapped right in two… right down the middle of the nose perch between the lenses.

I didn’t really collide that hard at all… so the plastic must’ve been getting weakened, must’ve been getting ready to go.

Sigh. I loved that pair of sunglasses. I’d been wearing them for nearly seven years.

And they didn’t even cost me a cent. I found them one Saturday afternoon in May 2001, in a men’s room stall at the Century Mall, perched on top of the toilet tissue holder. They were still in their plastic case, so I assume they were new. I debated whether to turn them in to Lost and Found, but decided, “Nah, I’m gonna keep ’em.” They were a really nice pair.

(Karma caught up with me eighteen months later, however, when I accidentally left a very nice pair of $35 leather gloves in the lobby of my apartment building, by the mailboxes, and they never turned up again, even though I checked with the doorman. Someone did to me what I had previously done to someone else. There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.)

Here’s a photo of me wearing them at a Memorial Day cookout in 2003… I’m the one to the left standing and holding a plate:

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Anyway, the only other sunglasses I have left are a pair of mirrored ones that have been sitting in a drawer for ages. I’m wondering if they’re out of style; nobody seems to wear any like them around here. Ah well, I guess they’ll have to do until I can buy some new ones, which I’m not going to do right now because it’s cold and I’m staying in.




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