Kill the fatted enchilada, for my sunglasses were lost, but now they're found.
It's Monday and a holiday week and I used up all my good new-restaurant news last week. So today, you're going to read about my sunglasses saga. Here it goes: On Saturday, I realized my sunglasses were missing. I beat myself up a little as I had purchased fancy Ray Ban sunglasses to try to prevent that exact thing from happening. "I'll spend a little more money on sunglasses so that I will be motivated to take care of them and keep up with them," I thought to myself.
For years, my pattern has been to buy a pair of sunglasses at American Eagle or some such place for less than $20. Then I would lose them in somewhere between six weeks and three months, roll my eyes, wear a hat more often for a bit and then buy a new cheap-ish pair.
But I broke that cycle because I've had this pair of sunglasses since January. The plan worked. But I want some help in determining whether it worked especially well in this instance or if I just got lucky.
I left my sunglasses at Leal's on Friday. After some calculation over the weekend, I came to this conclusion and when I called them Monday morning, they indeed had found them and would hold them for me to come by at lunch.
So here are my questions: Did I work harder to retrieve my sunglasses because they were a little nicer? Did they take better care of them because they say "Ray Ban" on them and they figured I would be coming after them? Am I lucky that someone didn't say "hey, free Ray Bans" and walk off with them?
I think the answers are yes, probably not (they're just nice), and probably.
At any rate, thanks so much to the good folks at Leal's.
