Esther is a lady whose enthusiasm for life is catchy. I love being around her. She is always so positive and so, well enthusiastic. I just got back from a run tonight, and was taking more pictures for my blog when she came outside and grabbed my arm and said, “You have to hear this. This is just the funniest thing you ever heard.”
And I believed her. So in we go, she is giggling all the way.
Janice has been a walker longer than she has been a runner. She briefly flirted with running and I was fortunate enough to run with her while she flirted. She says she can walk faster than I can run. And I believe her.
She holds up this plain looking pair of black gloves and says, “I’ve lost these gloves.”
Clearly she hasn’t because she is holding them in her hand.
And then the tale of these miraculous gloves unfolds.
She went to Fortino’s last week after walking with leader Cathy and the rest of the walking group. And lost the gloves.
Janice called Fortino’s and was shocked to learn that someone had found the gloves. And turned them into lost and found. Back she goes to Fortino’s where she picks up the not lost gloves.
Since Cathy, Janice and the rest of the walkers are getting ready to do their very first Around the Bay, they have been walking longer distances each Saturday. Last week was a 26 km walk in the Dundas Valley. A great place for runners to go too.
But while there, Janice lost her gloves. Again. She thought for sure this time they were gone.
Never one to be caught unprepared, Janice had a lovely pair of black gloves for tonight’s walk. The new gloves even had a really cool fringe along the edge, that screamed out “I’m a fashion statement, not a sweaty, smelly athlete.”
Thankfully, she didn’t have to subject the fashionista’s to such a horrible fate. You got it, the gloves found their way back to Janice again. After having been washed.
I can’t help wonder though, if the third time is the charm.
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