It figures!

In another post I wrote about my struggle with sciatica. A result of it was a hiatus on lap swimming. For weeks my pool bag sat, first in the car where it normally lives, then inside my apartment because the car was going for repair.

As the sciatica abated, I decided to charge up my swimming MP3 player so I could get back to the pool. I looked for it. It should be attached to my goggles in a small black pouch. It wasn’t there. I unpacked the whole bag–sport towel, turkish towel, fins, snorkel, gloves, zorries… I could not find the goggles and MP3 player.

The goggles were custom fitted, not cheap. Luckily, my source had a holiday sale and I’d already bought a couple more pairs. But I need my music to zone out in the pool. It was possible I’d left the pouch in the locker room when I last swam. I remember feeling off that day, after that swim, and the sciatica had flared up the next day. So I might have been distracted enough to leave them. Thing is, it was months ago. The odds of my stuff being in a lost and found were very low–so low it was not worth the effort to go there and check. And my cynical nature, or maybe life experience, told me calling and asking someone to look for it would not be productive.

So I ordered another MP3 player–the same model, as it happens because I didn’t find anything better. When it arrived I loaded it up with my swimming playlist, adding some tunes to it in the process. A few days later I made my way to the gym for the first time in months.

Once in the locker room I opened the pool bag and took out the smaller bag of stuff that goes poolside. I shoved clothes, shoes, and the larger bag into the locker. And I looked down at the bench and saw a black pouch.

“Seriously?”

Yes.

I have no idea why I did not see it when I checked the bag at home. I took everything out! But I do have a black microfiber towel for drying my zorries, and all I can think is the black pouch was tangled up with it. So I have two waterproof MP3 players, not to mention the goggles I thought lost. But hey, now I can rotate them so I never get a “low battery” message.