So I go skiing this afternoon. I've been skiing quite a lot this winter, and it's been really good for me - sliding down a hill is actually great exercise.
Anyway, It's snowing mixed snow and sleet, and I have no goggles, so I buy a cheap 40$ pair (40$ is cheap for goggles, most are twice or three times that) which worked out really well..
Around three, I decide to check the time so I can milk the last hour before the lifts close for all it's worth, and still end up by my car on the last run.
My pocket is unzipped, and my phone is gone.
Annoying, but not a huge deal.. After I got back from Europe, I decided to only buy cheap cellphones, and to never sign another wireless contract again, and only pay as I go.. It's super frugal, and I still have a phone that does everything I need it to do, which is just make and receive calls, you know..
So my damn 30$ phone with 700 ($70 worth of) minutes on it is apparently stuck in some snowdrift on the mountain somewhere.
Not that this is a huge problem, since there are only a half dozen people I ever talk to on the phone anyway, and I only do that once or twice a week..
But it does mean that until I either find it, or buy a new one, I have no phone.
Just so the 12 or so people who might care, know..
I'll get one before I leave for Florida next week, because I'll need it on the trip.
Last run of the afternoon, I get off the lift, ski about 100 yards and go to put my new goggles on.. And guess what?
Yep, they were gone, too. I'd dropped them on the lift or something. I usually clip my gloves and poles with a carabiner when I'm on the lift, it's a habit I've formed to prevent just such losses.. But since the goggles were new, I'd not habituated myself to doing that with them.
Nice. The girl at the client services lost and found is going to think I'm a retard.
At least I'm a happy retard.
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