I was in Vermont at the end of June with my daughter who is preparing for university. We were in a hotel room getting ready for the day.
She was in the bathroom drying her hair and her bracelet somehow became unclasped and flew across the room and plunked right into the toilet.
Kerplunk!
What are the chances? Even considering the smallness of a hotel bathroom.
Why didn’t it land in the sink, tub or behind the toilet?
I glanced down at the clean bowl of water. The “Evil Eye” bracelet was staring up at me with something like eleven blue eyes.
Hmmmm. What to do? I’m not overly superstitious but did think that maybe we should attempt to save a piece of jewelry that was designed to ward off evil spirits. Didn’t seem too cool that it was sitting at the bottom of a toilet bowl.
I said hesitantly, “I’ll………”
She replied, “No, Mom, it’s okay. No, don’t.”
“Okay, but I would have totally done that for you.”
“We will see what housekeeping will do. Maybe they’ll flush it or retrieve it.”
Arrived back to the room later in the day and it was gone. We will never know if it was flushed, retrieved, trashed or repurposed on someone else’s wrist. And that’s just fine.
I did, however, have to ask my daughter this question.
“Honestly, what would you have done if it was your iPhone that ended up in the toilet?”
Don’t have to be a genius to figure out that answer.
Just Being Mary 