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My asymmetrical purple fedora has vanished, lost somehow in the earliest hours of Boxing Day, most probably to the Metrotown parking lot. It was a fine hat, resilient, much loved, and my utter favourite, the best I've ever had. Already I miss it, along with the lovely feather fascinator attached to it that Sugar made me for my birthday. A moment of silence, please.

Also mysteriously gone this year: The Scarf of True Love.

Date: 2010-12-29 06:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] peristalsis.livejournal.com
Praised in song that hat should be; I am so sorry for your loss.

Date: 2010-12-29 07:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] porphyre.livejournal.com
Oh purple hat, how splendid in your glory, your wooly protection from rain abound?

Date: 2010-12-29 07:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] themythicalman.livejournal.com
Nothing's been turned into Metrotown's lost and found as of this morning. Do you remember in which parking lot you might have lost it? I'm working later this afternoon, but I don't live that far away from Metrotown.

Date: 2010-12-29 07:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] porphyre.livejournal.com
It would have been in the parking lot outside the Futureshop, so not strictly Metrotown. I called them already, though, and they don't have it.

Date: 2010-12-30 03:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] themythicalman.livejournal.com
I have to stop by there after work tomorrow. If you'd like, I can check both the lot and the other stores/hotels and see if anything was found.

So sad. That hat was a haberdasher's delight.

Date: 2010-12-30 03:20 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] porphyre.livejournal.com
That would be splendid of you. I was going to get out there today, but ended up spending time dealing with a gas leak instead.

Date: 2010-12-30 06:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] themythicalman.livejournal.com
Update: I was just there after work tonight, checked out the parking lot, the planters and the garbage bins and also asked two security men who were patrolling the area at the time. No luck, I'm sorry to report. Last ditch effort: go into the individual stores/restaurants and ask. I'll let you know if I'm successful.

Date: 2010-12-30 07:06 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] koppermoon.livejournal.com
On the other hand, sometimes losing stuff is a sign of change. I walked out of a Safeway last month during the snow, and realized I had left my hat there. It was one my ex had given me: handmade, but more utilitarian than lovely. Those words being symbolic of the relationship, I did not turn back.

I have more regrets about you losing your hat, than about losing mine.

Date: 2010-12-31 09:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] porphyre.livejournal.com
It's true. It was a very fine hat, though, and a quite excellen scarf. I'm sorry to have lost them. Your hat seems a better loss, more of a deliberate understanding that stuff does not have to mean anything.

Date: 2010-12-31 09:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] themythicalman.livejournal.com
I checked Future Shop and even the library across the street last night, with no luck. Sorry, lovely.

Date: 2010-12-31 09:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] porphyre.livejournal.com
You are a dream for even taking a look around for me.

p.s. I didn't even know there was a library there. Is it tucked away behind the burger-teria?

Date: 2011-01-01 03:54 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] themythicalman.livejournal.com
Always happy to help you, lovely. :-)

The library in question is on Willingdon Avenue, one block to the west of the Future Shop. It's convenient for me, being about a fifteen minute walk from my place. The Burnaby Public Libraries in general have a very respectable selection, especially when it comes to music and movies; I once found a DVD there of Charles Bukowski's final live performance outside of the U.S., filmed at the Carnegie Centre on Main Street.

Date: 2011-01-02 09:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eva00.livejournal.com
We have the scarf! We have even been wearing it now and again in hopes that someone would recognize it and tell us whose it was.

Date: 2011-01-02 09:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eva00.livejournal.com
The "we" of course being myself and Ryan. Not a royal "we", no matter what it sounded like.

Date: 2011-01-02 10:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] porphyre.livejournal.com
You do! That's fantastic! I'm so very glad it's been somewhere safe and warm this whole time. When's a good time to snag it off of you?

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