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| Widowed earring on Alabama map. February 2021. |
Earrings and lipstick. If I am out, they are on me.
Until a couple of weeks ago, that is.
I suppose there are earring-wearers out there who are sufficiently mindful about removing masks to avoid losing an earring, but I am not among their number.
After losing two earrings now since COVID began, I have surrendered to reality and my ears will henceforth go nekkid until we are a post-mask world.
I lost my green-glass dangly earring on laundry day last week. I knew I had to have lost it somewhere between my parked car and my various stops inside the laundromat: the change machine, the washing machine, the dryer, the folding table.
I re-traced my steps twice, scanning the ground surface like a search-and-rescue spotter, to no avail. (A detour into the efficacy of search rescue eye scanning here.)
Before I left the premises, I asked the laundromat attendant if anyone had turned in an earring. "No," he replied, "but there is that homeless guy who comes around here all the time, and he was walking around holding an earring up with his hand, and talking about it being good luck for him or something, and then he left to go wherever he goes when he leaves here, still carrying it."
So there you go. My earring, lost to me, but out in the wilderness, on a new journey.
And I had not even been its first caretaker, as it was a rescue earring I had acquired in a Goodwill in South Louisiana.
The day I gave up wearing earrings outside is the day I also gave up my irrational wearing of lipstick behind a mask.
Some other thoughts on earrings, lipsticks, and masks
... Are Face Masks Leading Us to Kiss the Cosmetic Goodbye?
Prevent Losing Earrings While Wearing a Mask
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