Sunglasses

On Friday, Josh lost his sunglasses while jumping off the dock into Big Lake. Four people in our group tried diving down to retrieve them. The water was about twelve feet deep and murky green down in the seaweed. Three tires resided on the bottom. Everyone except Josh’s daughter Daela abandoned the search. She retrieved better goggles from her car and after a few more tries, she surfaced holding a pair of sunglasses aloft to great applause from a half dozen witnesses. But the glasses did not belong to Josh. They were lost last week by Jake. Josh put them on and texted a photo to Jake. Daela resumed diving and emerged with another pair of sunglasses. The growing crowd went wild. But they did not belong to Josh either! They were immediately identified as my son Matt’s glasses. I know the sun gets in your eyes but I began to wonder why people wear sunglasses in swimming or floating in the lake when they get lost so easily. I was also amazed how everyone seemed to remember who wore which sunglasses. They all look pretty much the same to me. Daela continued her search. She could hold her breath a really long time. Originally I thought the mission was doomed but now joked about almost expecting Daela to come up with another pair. I was absolutely stunned when she did in fact emerge with her dad’s sunglasses. We thought she should start diving off neighboring docks to see what else she could find. Maybe I am easily impressed but on Saturday I told Daela this post was bumping one about how I can wiggle my ears. Then she deflated me with the news that all three salvaged sunglasses were already lost again somewhere on land.