I shouldn't have been bragging...

You may  have seen  my post the other week on Instagram about finding the deal of the year. 

I went shopping on a layover

and I found a pair of Brooks Launch sneakers (the kind I have been wearing for years) on clearance for $8.50.  Since I was on a trip for work, I really didn't have the extra room in my luggage, but at $8.50, how could I pass that up!  I had to buy them!

 Of course I bought them on day one of a four day trip. So for four days I carried around the box of shoes in the bag. I told every crew member I came in counter with those days about my great deal I couldn’t pass up and that is why I was carrying an extra bag with me. Well I think I jinxed myself for doing that.   

The last night I had to fly from Denver-Orange County back to Denver and then a red eye to Philadelphia. So my van time that day was 3:30 pm Mountain time and I didn’t get home until 6:30 am East Coast time the following morning. Needless to say I was quite tired after I finished my trip.  

So here I am still with my luggage along with my Dicks Sporting Goods bag (well so I thought).  I get off the shuttle and the following day I drive to Virginia Beach for the weekend.  After my Virginia Beach trip I am repacking my car to get ready for my next work trip and I realize my shoes are nowhere to be found. How is this possible? I know I did not wear those shoes at all during the weekend because I had my other pair. Why would I even take them out of the car? I still reached out to both my friends I stayed with while I was there, in hopes maybe I did take them out for some reason, but no luck.  

I even went back to the employee lot where the bus picks us up to see if someone found them and placed them in lost and found, but nothing.  It’s been a few weeks now and they have not turned up so I must have not picked them up at some point along the way and are long gone now. Those darn red eyes!  

I am still bummed about those shoes but I think the only saving grace is only spending $8.50 on them. Still, it’s just the principle. So of course I had to go out and buy another pair that was surely not $8.50 but at least they were still on sale.  

Have you ever got a great deal but then did not have anything to show for it?  -L