Growing up, I used to think the phrase “you’d lose your head if it wasn’t attached” was developed just for me. That’s how often my mother said it to me.<\/p>\n
I can’t imagine what she’d say to me now if she were still alive. I lost my iPod last week.<\/p>\n
As the time neared to board my plane in Chicago the other day – I was in town for a work conference – I made my final preparations. I reached into my pocket for my iPod so I could listen to a few podcasts on the flight.<\/p>\n
But it wasn’t there. I rolled my eyes at myself and opened the outside pocket of my carryon. I must have thrown it in there when I put all the various charging cords I had to bring with me for the three-day trip. I rummaged around with no luck.<\/p>\n
That’s when fear started to set in. Not real fear, mind you, but the kind that makes you realize you did something stupid and might be up the river without a paddle. The fear that makes you appreciate all the other times you came close to losing something but made one last check of your surroundings at the last second.<\/p>\n
I thought I had done that when I checked out of my hotel room. I thought I had done that after I removed my items from the security bin at the airport. I hadn’t thought to check my pockets when I got out of the cab so my iPod could certainly have fallen out there.<\/p>\n
But the reality is that I have no idea where I lost the music player I bought four years ago. The hotel doesn’t have it in its lost and found, which was my only real hope for a return. The iPod has no identifying information so someone out there has a new old iPod.<\/p>\n
Don’t worry about me, though. I have decided to upgrade to an iPhone, albeit one where I pay a hefty price up front so i can use the cheaper monthly service which Virgin Mobile offers. My iPod-less pain will end this afternoon when the phone arrives. I’m worried though – the online tracker says the package was put on a truck at 8:11 a.m. and <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Growing up, I used to think the phrase “you’d lose your head if it wasn’t attached” was developed just for me. That’s how often my mother said it to me. I can’t imagine what she’d say to me now if…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-making-an-idiot-out-of-myself","wpcat-23-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1866"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1870,"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866\/revisions\/1870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}there is no delivery conformation three and a half hours later<\/del>\u00a0it was delivered three and a half hours later (right after I posted it was not delivered yet). \u00a0Glad they didn’t lose it. Don’t they know that’s my job?<\/p>\n