prone to not keep them long...

Take a look. This is what happens to Terry's sunglasses, the two pairs that we have in our possession anyway. The others are long gone lost.

Squashed pair

Missing ear piece pair

Terry enjoys wearing sunglasses now a days, especially for any amount of time in the car. He often remarks that he doesn't know how he used to make all of his driving trips without them. For example, traveling from western SoDak to Missouri for his first year of college and thereafter to Moody in Chicago, about 15 hours total.

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We just happen to have finished a very large trip to Chicago, Wisconsin and Minnesota and all Terry had to wear was the second pair - the one without an earpiece. He originally got them on his first road trip of the summer to Utah. They cost $7 at a mall in Salt Lake. Somehow, miraculously they were not in the bag that was stolen off the bus. Not that they lasted long after that. =)

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Anyway, right before we left for Chicago the earpiece fell off and Terry attempted to salvage it with electrical tape. Yeah, and when we were on our way home it fell off completely. What did he do then? Wear my spare pair (yes, I have two)? No, no, no. He wore them without the earpiece all the way home. They currently reside on our dryer, though I don't know why he put them there.

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That pair was the replacement for the first photoed pair, the ones that are somewhat squashed. The squashed pair were a replacement of some really cool blue ones that we still don't know happened to. Anyway, the squashed ones. We got those on sale at Kohl's Memorial Day weekend when we went home. We were there forever trying on sunglasses b/c we thought he needed a nicer pair since this time since he was going to try really hard not to lose them. Surely if he tries really hard he won't lose them right? Correct. But he didn't anticipate Gothenburg drivers.

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Terry was turning right onto 4th Ave from Hwy 47 at the base of the viaduct (the corner of McDonalds). It was a nice day and he had the windows of the van open and his sunglasses on the dash... Can you see it happening? Well, the force of the turn made his glasses slide left on the dash and out his window! He reached for them but it was too late. So he pulled over the van and was actually on his way over to them when a lady, coming from the opposite way, turned left on to 4th at the same corner, and ran directly over his brand new sunglasses. Actually, he thought they were going to make it b/c her front wheels missed them. But alas no. Her rear wheels got em. He came home and just laughed as he told me about it. I think I smiled and rolled my eyes. Of course that would happen to him.

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Just to wrap up: Terry lost the blue ones, squashed the nice ones and wore the cheap pair out in a month. There were several others before those but I can't even remember their stories. That's why he didn't spend much on the gas station pair.

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Now he thinks that if he has a nice case to always put them in he won't lose them, squash them or have any other unforeseen accident. I have my doubts. I think we should just stick to cheap sunglasses and plan on replacing them every couple months.

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As our friend Adam would say, this is why we can't have nice things.