And the Moral of the Story Is????

This was a weekend of forgetting stuff places. 

 It started with Mykayla forgetting her winter jacket at the arena on Saturday. She remembered right away but when we went back it was gone. I fired off a quick email to the Skating Club and by the end of the weekend we got a response from one of the coaches that they had picked it up and taken it home with them

Secondly, on Sunday I came home from Noah’s final game for the weekend tournament and as I was on my way out to the team pizza party, I realized I didn’t have my cell phone. I immediately had the feeling I left it at the rink. As I was leaving to go check the car, our home phone rang. The caller ID read MOM CELL. Trevor answered and it was our friend and assistant coach. He had found the phone underneath the bench and just hit the talk button and saw it would ring HOME. Thank goodness on that one.

Finally today I picked up Taylor and he had a bag with shoes in it. It seems he had left his CIRCA shoes in the change room in his haste to leave school on Friday. He never noticed until last period today when they went for gym and one of his friends found them….. in the urinal. GROSS! Someone had of course urinated all over them. I can’t believe how low some people can be. I am sure it was one of the Grade 7 or 8 kids and of course after 2 days there is no way of finding out who would have done such a thing. I would have preferred if someone just stole them and we never saw them again.

I originally thought that it was his 75 dollar gym shoes and then I was really upset. I also thought that it happened over the weekend when the gym might have been rented out. The school offered to pay for them but when we figured out that Taylor didn’t even realize he was missing them until they were found and they were not his gym shoes we decided not to take them up on their offer. Instead we decided the lesson was Taylor’s to learn. He was responsible to pay for half for a new pair and since the pair he chose cost 35 dollars more than the original 60 he had to pay the extra as well. Next time I am hopeful Taylor will keep better care of his stuff  (not to mention Mykayla and I)

Still, what do you suppose possesses a person ( of whatever age) to do something so disturbing.