On Maundy Thursday, a week and a half ago, I was in the basement of the TeddyJ parking garage and saw this earring dangling on the phone jack outside the elevator.
I picked up the earring, then I tried to put it back. Couldn’t do it. It fell on the floor three or four times, but since someone else had taken the time to mount it on the phone jack I felt I needed to put it right back where I’d found it.
I never was able to encircle the jack with the earring as shown above, but I did manage to jam the hoop into the jack and balance it that way.
That evening, I came out and saw someone else had put it back on the jack the “right” way. (No doubt after dropping it a few times.)
I pass this earring every single day. It never moves. Dozens of employees park in the basement and I know they all file past that earring daily. It’s like a sacred earring, now, and no one wants to be the person to topple it off the phone jack because GOD ONLY KNOWS WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN.
3 responses to “Earring”
We have a glove like that here, on the stairwell, balanced on the knob of a pipe. Just the one.
When we still on the 7th floor, someone found an earring and sent out an email about it. It ended up being one I’d lost at least a month earlier. Maybe eventually its owner will turn up.
Tami – You should stuff it with something and prop it up like it’s waving.Caroline – I’ve thought about asking at lost and found if anyone’s been inquirig about an earring.