LOST

So, the other part of the weekend I did not tell you about was our plethora of "lost" valuables.

Friday evening, Ben called me from work rather frantic that he could not find the iPad. It had been in the server room at the school, which had been unlocked most of the day. He scoured the school trying to look in other rooms he may have been in, and watched some video surveillance of the area immediately outside the server room trying to see if he could find anyone walking out with it. No luck.

Saturday evening, we were at Scotty's having a post-race drink, when I realized that my purse was no longer in Ben's backpack, where I had put it before the race. I shouldn't have brought it at all, but it is tiny, and held a few critical items that I had wanted to bring on the race. There had been a point during the race that Ben had noticed the front pouch on his pack was unzipped, so we figure the purse fell out while we were racing thru downtown. Not much hope of finding it again.

So, by this time the tally of lost inventory is:
iPad: $500
purse: $20 plus the sentimental value of it having been purchased in Italy
drivers license: $6
debit card: hopefully no cost except the pain of being without it for 2 weeks while waiting for a replacement
cash: $50
Gym membership card for swipe entry: $6
keys: $200+ roughly to replace the car & truck keys including chips / remotes
Prescription medication: $250 to replace the 30-day supply that I had just filled

Yikes. That's over $1,000 of just LOST stuff. Ouch.

Sunday, we get home, and I happened to be rummaging through the center console of the Mountaineer and found my medication -- turns out I had taken the bottle out of my purse prior to the race. Hooray! $250 not lost.

Monday morning, Ben gets to work, his iPad was located in his boss's office. Hooray! The biggest chunk of our disaster has been remedied.

Monday evening, I get home from work to a message on the machine from Scotty's Brewhouse in downtown Indy that they have my purse! I think I may actually have left it in the booth when we ate dinner prior to the race.... so it never actually even made it on the race with us. I'm so forgetful these days it is pathetic. BUT! Hooray! No need to replace keys, drivers license, etc.

So, my friend Heather, who works downtown, will pick up the purse for me and ship it back. The only actual loss is possibly the $50 cash if that didn't survive, and I still have the headache of waiting a few weeks for my new debit card since I cancelled that immediately. But, oh boy, what a change in attitude Ben and I have from Saturday at this time.