the one armed bandit

[Soulstealer]

Not really a sucky story so much as weird.

Part of closing duties in the library involve walking the building kicking people out and if they leave any belongings we take it down to the lost and found. For the past week we've had closing at 4am so I'm tired and a bit cranky.

Anyway, on Monday I found a bunch of gloves without their mates, my school must have a high population of one armed people, it's the only logical explanation.

The very next day at 3am the idiot who lost it and had since 7:30am in the morning to come down and claim it, decides to come back for it. He had two arms but seriously why in 3 am does he just now realize he needs his glove back?

[Rapscallion]

One glove used to be a sign of gang affiliation. I'm not saying it's the case here, but...

Rapscallion

[TryNotToBeThatOne]

Oh ye gods! I'm in trouble then. There's increased gang activity in my area. I could be in danger. (note: it would take a highly imaginative gang member to mistake me for one and thus, I am joking, though not very well).

One of my gloves dropped out of my jacket pocket (I have no idea where). It's one of those cheap 'fit any hand' knit ones so I've just been switching which hand is in my pocket and which one is wearing the glove.

[IHateStupidCustomers]

Did he maybe just lose the one glove, and still had the other?

I do that damn near every year. Drop one somewhere, it falls out of my coat pocket, whatever.

Maybe he didn't realize it was gone until then or something.

[Rapscallion]

Well, the craze was for one golf glove, not knitted...

Rapscallion

[crazylegs]

Well, the craze was for one golf glove, not knitted...

Rapscallion

I beleive the current 'street' trend is leave your tags on your clothing whilst wearing it...

various reasons I've heard for this one
a) it shows its real, not fake
b) it looks like its been shoplifted
c) damned if I can remember now...

[Gawdzillers]

Then that means Paul Gilbert is a gang member!
He's always leaving the tag on his guitars.

[Soulstealer]

Well the girl who forgot her one pink mitten must be in a gang too. I'm sure they don't do it on purpose but how do you forget one glove and not the other?

[Ttam]

........... Was it Michael Jackson?

[DGoddessChardonnay]

Oh ye gods! I'm in trouble then. There's increased gang activity in my area. I could be in danger. (note: it would take a highly imaginative gang member to mistake me for one and thus, I am joking, though not very well).

One of my gloves dropped out of my jacket pocket (I have no idea where). It's one of those cheap 'fit any hand' knit ones so I've just been switching which hand is in my pocket and which one is wearing the glove.

We're having that problem with gangs where I'm at too. But then, I have a bad habit of sticking my gloves in my purse instead of actually wearing them too . . . which may have something to do with why my hands are now dry, flaky and cracking in this cold dry air.

[BookstoreEscapee]

One of my gloves dropped out of my jacket pocket (I have no idea where). It's one of those cheap 'fit any hand' knit ones so I've just been switching which hand is in my pocket and which one is wearing the glove.

...must be why Target sells them in packs of 2 pairs...

I wear those gloves all the time...I have a million of 'em floating around my parents' coat closet. I can't wear heavier gloves, unfortunately. If I can't move my fingers easily, they get very painful. The stretchy knit gloves aren't the warmest, but they let me move my fingers freely. I prefer chilly fingertips to painful hands.

[TryNotToBeThatOne]

I was at an outlet mall & picked up 2 sets of gloves, sort of. One is a pair of more expensive knit gloves (but the price of the cheap ones, thanks to the sale) & a pair of fingerless gloves/mittens. I love those things. If you've no idea what I'm talking about, here's a pattern for a crocheted pair. Mittens keep my fingers warmer but I sometimes really need that manual dexterity thing.

I did find a use for that lone glove though;I picked up a book on dolls made from the non-lost glove or sock of a pair.