A few years ago I was going on a long-distance trip to visit some family, and I packed my roughly thirty favorite dvd's, and my ipod -- an ipod that contained almost every song I've (intensely) enjoyed in the last fifteen years -- in a zip-up CD case.  I stopped by a gas station that a friend of mine was working at before heading out, and talked for maybe fifteen minutes -- having made the grave mistake of leaving my window down....   So yeah, you can see where I'm going with this.

 

I didn't even realize it until three days later, because I didn't really want to believe it.  I would check the car, knowing full well that I'd placed it on the seat next to me when I left, and then tell myself, "You must have just put it in the trunk or something, for whatever imbecilic reason"; and then I would put off actually checking the trunk out of the fear that there would be nothing there to find.

 

Really, really sucked....

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