I need a defrag

I thought they were gone for good.

After spending a couple of hours co-hosting our outside broadcast yesterday at Carols in the Park, I sat down with my family to enjoy the rest of the evening. I can’t imagine living in a climate where you couldn’t spend an evening under the stars in shorts and T-shirt singing carols just before Christmas. It was wonderful.

At the end of the night we packed up and got ready to head home. Bags – check. Blanket – check. Rubbish – check. Kids – check. Sunglasses – sunglasses – where are my sunnies?

Obviously I’d taken them off earlier, once the sun went down, but where were they now? I checked my pockets, the tent we used for the broadcast, the car, nothing. I looked everywhere. (Or so I thought)

The problem was that these weren’t ordinary sunglasses. They’re rather expensive Rudy Project sunnies that I bought some time ago especially for cycling. There’s no way we could afford to replace them. (No – not everyone who works in radio makes megabucks.)

On my way to work this morning Pauline sent me an SMS. She said that I had put my sunglasses in her backpack. As soon as I read the SMS I remembered very clearly putting them there. The whole process of placing them there ran through my head like a film. I remembered the scenario as if it were happening there and then.

Funny how I spent hours wondering where they were yet all the time, in the dark recesses of my mind, the truth was lurking. The data was there all along, I just couldn’t access it.

Do you think it’s possible to run a scandisk and defrag on my brain?

Posted by Rodney Olsen

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