Thursday, December 27, 2007

Coats

I seem to be developing a bad habit of losing my winter coats in airports.

About four years ago, I got tapped in the Houston airport for one of those icky pat-down searches and managed to forget my coat in the rush to get on the plane before they closed the doors. Even though I left it in the pat-down area, it was lost forever.

So I got a new coat.

And dropped it today while running through the airport to get to my gate.

The Engineer and I ran back and forth over the path I'd taken, but did not find the missing coat. I tracked down the phone number for the airport lost and found and called repeatedly until boarding, but only got a machine telling me to call again later.

Dang! It was 20 degrees when I got back to Salt Lake City. Not fun for finding the car in the parking lot while toting two suitcases. Guess I'll have to get another coat. I really regret losing the leather gloves and cashmere scarf I had tucked in the pockets. The scarf was the Engineer's first Christmas present to me.

Under the circumstances (or any circumstances) I'm glad I don't have my sister-in-law's taste in coats. This is a picture of her and her sister clad in their long mink coats on Christmas day.
It boggles my mind that anyone would spend $6,000 on a coat made of dead weasels.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

lol, hope will not happen 2u the same with love :-p

momo said...

hate to tell you how much I would love love love to have a coat like that...but mine would have to be dyed purple or something......*grin*

merry happy!

Wunx~ said...

Thank you Andrei.

Nameless --
Perhaps you could find a coat made of punk weasels... Purple fur and built-in attitude. Just the thing for Michigan winters.

Stay warm and have a great New Year.

bioephemera said...

If I wore a real fur coat, I'd idly pet myself all the time and get a lot of strange looks. Mmm, mink. Almost as soft as my cat.