Let’s hope it’s hard to stop a Trane, at least. It rained today, and Furnace Dude had an outdoor job planned that they couldn’t do because of the weather, so he installed ours today. I guess they’re done; I came home at lunch to check on Miffy, and he (Furnace Dude, not Miff) said he wasn’t sure about the roof vent, but it stopped raining…around 1430h, I think, and there’s PVC pipe coming out of our roof now, so I guess he had time to finish. Anyway, I hope we’ll have no trouble with this one for a long time!

It’s also hard to stop my brown Børn crisscross sandals, apparently! It was raining when I left for work this morning, so I wore flipflops lest my sandals get wet; soggy leather is unappealing, and not good for shoes, either. I’d already taken my bag out to the car when I thought of my shoes, so I just grabbed them and headed out the door. My hands were full, and I set my shoes on HK’S roof to open the door. As I often do with thing I set on the roof, I forgot all about them.

I was coming up to the overpass when I noticed some woman in a truck waving. I didn’t recognise her, so I thought she must be waving at someone on the other side of me, and kept driving.

I got to work, and as I was collecting my stuff to get out of the car, I remembered having set my sandals on the car. I thought, “Dammit! They’re on the street by the house, or somewhere between home and work!” I love those sandals; they’re comfortable and go with so many different things. I resigned myself to wearing purple Rider flipflops at work, and hoped my sandals would be somewhere on our street.

I got out of the car…and there were my sandals, right where I’d left them! That woman wasn’t waving at someone else, she was trying to draw my attention to the sandals on the roof of my car! I drove the same way I always do, and took the same bumps and corners that I do every morning, but they didn’t move. They were a bit wet, but I left my flipflops on until they’d dried, and they were fine. P told me to buy a lottery ticket. Maybe I should have!