Dept. of Miscellany

[kaffy_r]

Things I Do

Spend years (truly, years) looking at a pair of good snow boots, one of whose side zipper needs to be replaced. Finally take it in, get it replaced. Lose other boot. Or perhaps dropped it off at cobbler's, and forgot to get it back. But if so, why did cobbler not give it back to me?

This is my life.

Comments

[st_aurafina]

Wel, poop. And Murphy's law states that it won't show up until you replace it, either.

*wonders about a world where you need snow boots*

[kaffy_r]

I'm actually heading out to the cobbler's today, in hopes that he might search and find my lonely other boot, which may have miraculously been there all the time. Hope springs eternal.

*wonders about a world where you need snow boots*

Hmmm. I would have thought that you might get snow in those months that we in the northern hemisphere think of as spring and summer, but I take it you tend to get a rainy winter instead?

[st_aurafina]

Yeah, winter is pretty much "Better put on a coat! Maybe a scarf." I've never been snowed on ever. Seen snow, but only snow that was already there, and it was mostly ice by then. I think it was only nominally snow.

[shanghaied]

Damn :-(

~misses the world in which I needed - and had - snow boots~

[kaffy_r]

Heh; I've had two responses here from people in the southern hemisphere, both of whom mentioned snow boots. They were very good snow boots, too; Canadian, donchaknow.

Still, I live in hope. I shall visit the cobbler today and see if perhaps I did indeed leave the boot there, and it simply got separated from the first one. He seems very nice, and he did a wonderful job, but the store is a bit of a jumble, so that's possible.

[shanghaied]

We definitely needed snow boots in the Yuk in the early '80s, especially those of us who were living on a farm in Kent well away from the London heat island :-)

I hope you'll get/have got t'other boot back!

~sings an encouraging snatch of 'these boots were made for warming, and that's just what they'll do...'~

[flowsoffire.livejournal.com]

Ugh! >.< Now that is quite rubbish. Ask the cobbler? Where else could you lose a boot?

[kaffy_r]

I'll definitely be asking the cobbler today; he seems like a good old gentleman, so I think he'll do a search of his place to see if there's a single boot looking lonely for its mate. At this point, I'm more amused about the silliness that is, occasionally, my life, than anything else. Heh.

[flowsoffire.livejournal.com]

*chuckles* Good then, and fingers crossed! ;)

[eaweek.livejournal.com]

Oh God, this is my life, too. Monday night I left an almost brand-new swimming cap in the locker room at the Y. Went back last night, checked everywhere, no sign of the thing. And it's a cap I won for hitting the 50 mile mark of the 2014 "Go the Distance" event. Grumble, grumble. I have a spare cap, but I liked THAT one, ya know? Hardly a world-ending thing, but just an annoyance I'd rather not deal with.

Last year it took me 3-4 months to get a lamp fixed because I kept just missing the guy who runs the small electronics repair shop, and I also kept having to wait for the weather to be such that I wouldn't slip/fall and break the lamp on an icy sidewalk. We finally connected and the lamp was fixed for around $15, but jeeze louise, I didn't think I was ever going to get there when the shop was open.

[clocketpatch]

That's annoying. Good luck in getting back your boot!

And... even though your visit to the cobbler didn't go so well... I'm very pleased to know that there are still cobblers in this world and that people still use them, rather than chucking out repairable boots to buy another disposable pait at Wally World.

[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

*Headdesk* Arrrrghhhh!! Hope that boot is found (and soon!!)

*SNUGGLES YOU*