📙 Part 2: Describe an occasion when you lost something

This episode's vocabulary

To misplace (verb) - to lose something temporarily by forgetting where you have put it.

Minor (adj.) - having little importance, influence, or effect, especially when compared with other things of the same type.

To resort to something - to do or use something because it is the only thing available

Sentimental (adj.) - giving too much importance to emotions, especially love or sadness.

All in all (phrase) - considering all the different parts of the situation together.

Distraught (adj.) - extremely worried, nervous, or upset.

Loose (adj.) - (of clothes) not fitting closely to the body.

To wander (verb) - to walk around slowly in a relaxed way or without any clear purpose or direction.

To restrain (verb) - to control the actions or behaviour of someone by force, especially in order to stop them from doing something, or to limit the growth or force of something.

To be over the moon (idiom) - to be very pleased.

Bereft (adj.) - not having something or feeling great loss.

Prohibitively (adverb) - in a way that is too expensive or too much.

To restore (verb) - to return something or someone to an earlier good condition or position.

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Questions and Answers

M: He's going to say what he lost, when and where he lost it, what he did to find it, and he's going to explain how he felt about it. Rory, are you going to tell us about your heart? Maybe you lost your heart or your soul?

R: I'm going to talk about my earphones. I feel like people are gonna be really disappointed of my boring story about my earphones. But I don't care. It's my story. And I was very upset at the time.

M: Okay, Rory, tell us your upset story. Rory story. Off we go.

R: A few years ago, I actually misplaced my case for my earphones. That sounds rather minor, but actually, it was quite upsetting because it was the thing that let me charge the things it carried. So without that, I couldn't listen to anything without resorting to earphones with the cable. And the whole idea of having wireless earphones in the first place was so I wouldn't have to do that because it's much more convenient and I think it's more stylish as well, which is not something that I'm used to. So it is rather important for me to have wireless ones. This whole set was quite expensive as well, actually, now I think about it. And it had some sentimental value since it was one of the first things that I bought when I got my first salary in my new job in Russia. So all in all, I really, well, I was really quite distraught at the fact that I wouldn't like have them with me. Initially, I thought I'd lost the case on the metro when I was sitting down. My trousers for work had quite loose pockets, so I thought maybe they'd fallen out then, well, fallen out from them on the metro then. With that in mind, I didn't really do much to find them and I gave up since the metro is huge and it was really unlikely that anyone would pick up the case and hand it back. And I suppose without that I couldn't charge my earpods and so I couldn't wander around the apartment without a cable restraining my every move. And the sound quality on the earphones with a cable, well, it wasn't that great compared to what the wireless earphones were like, to be honest. Anyway, as it turned out, I was quite mistaken. And the next day when I caught the bus to work, the driver had found it on the floor and he gave it back to me. And I was absolutely over the moon about the whole thing, since I'd been left quite bereft the day before about it, when I was thinking about how much a new set would cost. It wasn't prohibitively expensive, but still quite a bit. So that was great news. It really restored my faith in people for the whole day.

M: And what would you have done if you hadn't found them?

R: Well, I would have had to buy a new set.

M: Thank you, Rory!

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