Ok...So for my birthday, my boyfriend flew me up to visit him so I could meet his family. The plan was to stay a week. Because my flight was so early in the morning, I decided to drive down to where the airport is the night before and stay at a hotel that would let me leave my car with them while I was gone.

On the way down, I had a bit of car trouble. I drive a 1987 Jeep [it's the same age as me!] and sometimes the light in the dash board goes out so I can't see what my speed is or how much gas I have. I put my phone on GPS mode so it'd stay lit up and placed it on my dash under the speedometer so I could keep tract of myself, but I neglected to keep a light under my gas gauge and didn't notice how low my tank was running until it was too late. I pulled off to get gas, but it died just before reaching the gas station. I managed to pull off to the side and walked over to the station as they were closing and they were nice enough to let me inside and buy a can for gas. I walked back and after some struggle, I got the gas out of the can and into my car! However, because I had left my hazards on, my battery had died. With no light inside my car, I couldn't find my phone again to call AAA. I tried to use the light from the screen of my iPod, but it didn't help. I got frustrated, tossed my iPod down into the seat and lost track of it.

An elderly couple pulled off to help me. They called my phone so I could find it and let me sit in their warm car while I waited for AAA to come. We talked and they were so very nice to me. After realizing all I needed was a jump, the husband went home to get his jumper cables while his wife stayed with me so I wouldn't be alone on the side of the road in the dark. They got me going again and I was finally able to make it to my hotel and didn't get mugged once [nicest people I have ever met].

At the hotel, I couldn't find my iPod, but it was dark and my inside light wasn't working, so I assumed it was lost under the seat and I could get it later. I checked again in the morning, but couldn't find it before my flight. I was certain it was still in my car though, so I left without it. I had my kindle for the plane and I knew once I landed, I'd be having too much fun with my boyfriend to care about my iPod.

And I did have fun by the way. So much fun. Half of that fun involves details I don't care to share. The other half involves me hitting Frank in the back of the neck with a snowball. My aim is badass.

When I got home, I was so tired, I didn't bother to look at my car until two days after I unpacked and washed all my clothes. I couldn't find my iPod, but my jeep is a mess so I didn't think much of it. I joked about taking it to the car wash just to see if the guys could find it for me.

By this point, it had been two weeks since I had last seen it. I hadn't seen my iPod since my car trouble.

Yesterday, exactly two weeks to the day since I had lost it, I drove into the city to go shopping. As I was getting closer to the city, I saw the exit I had pulled off on when I ran out of gas. I pulled off and drove slowly up the hill looking for the cap from the gas can I bought. I had lost it in the dark trying to put gas in my tank, so I knew that if they hadn't picked up trash in the area yet, that cap would be the marker. Sure enough I saw it and a few feet away was my iPod. I stopped my car and got out to pick it up. It was cold, wet, and had a leaf sticking to it, but it was still there two weeks later and not a scratch on it.

I brushed it off and put it on the towel in my passenger seat. I'm not an idiot. You don't turn on wet electronics. You let them dry out first so you don't fry them.

I did my shopping and was mostly disappointed by it. It's good that I needed the craft store, because everything else was a bust.

At home, I bought what I had needed in the city online and forgot about my iPod for a few hours. After being decently sure it was as dry as it was gonna get, I turned it on.

Son of a bitch no only still works, it picked right back up on my favorite song that I had paused it on last time I used it.



I am so very happy right now.