I love my red circle earrings!
Because they love ME.
As I was riding home on my classically overstuffed commuter bus this evening, a sudden jolt of motion caused one of my precious red circle earrings –
– to bounce off of my very cute black scarf… and up and out of my ear.
Hey!
I felt it roll down my shoulder and PING! it hit the floor. Then it rolled under a row of seats and was gone.
I grimaced a little, torn between two realities:
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a) it’s such a cute earring! and
b) the seats were full of people who probably did not care enough about the cuteness of my earring to search for said earring and/or displace themselves so I could search.
One woman looked beneath her feet a little halfheartedly, but I wasn’t about to cause a fuss.
“Do you want me to check under my seat?”
“No, no…” I said, pulling off my other earring to tuck it in my bag, “They were super cheap. No problem.”
I comforted myself in the knowledge that the happy circle could be replaced. If it was still available. In that shade of red. Which matched my red boots. Apparently I love cheap red objects.
Then there were many more stops.
Many more people got on and off.
Every now and then, I would hear the red circle skitter along the floor of the bus. But I honestly didn’t know WHERE it was skittering, so I was forced to ignore the freedom-break sounds.
Eventually I just forced myself to stop thinking about it.
Then, about twenty minutes later, I pulled the bell to get off.
As I stepped towards the door, I felt something hit my red boot.
The red circle had found me. Almost magnetically. Magically. Fatefully.
And that’s why I love my red circle earrings.
February 22nd, 2007 at 7:48 pm
Sheesh…I was planning how I could get to ‘that place’ where we bought them there red things(among other stuff!) and replace them for y’all because I was soooo sad about the red thing’s absence from your life!!! The suspense and denoument(sp?) in this posting is too much for me!!! Whew!
February 22nd, 2007 at 8:12 pm
That’s a great love story:)
February 22nd, 2007 at 8:18 pm
like a red, circular boomerang. miraculous, indeed!
February 22nd, 2007 at 8:19 pm
p.s. i hope you wiped it down with a lysol wipe before putting it back in your ear. i’m sure you did, you dedicated little OCD’er, you.
February 22nd, 2007 at 8:38 pm
Soaking in alcohol, my sweet!
February 22nd, 2007 at 11:08 pm
I used to have a pair of square green earrings…
February 22nd, 2007 at 11:49 pm
I almost cried after reading it. Like a faithful dog that returns back to it’s master! :_)
February 23rd, 2007 at 8:27 am
Aww. It found you! Those should be your lucky red earrings.
February 23rd, 2007 at 9:04 am
It did not want to leave you!
February 23rd, 2007 at 9:13 am
as if it was saying, “wait… don’t leave without me!”
February 27th, 2007 at 11:05 am
Yay for cute red earrings that *will not* be separated from their beloved matching accessories!