📙 Part 2: Describe an occasion when you lost something in a public place

This episode's vocabulary

To keep track (idiom) - to make certain that you know what is happening or has happened to someone or something.

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

To rummage (verb) - to search for something that is difficult to find among other things.

Immediate (adj.) - used to refer to something or someone that is close to, or is a cause of or an effect of, something or someone else.

To keep your/an eye on something/someone (idiom) - to watch or take care of something or someone.

More trouble than it's worth/not worth the trouble (idiom) - if something is more trouble than it's worth or is not worth the trouble, it is not important or useful enough to make an effort doing it.

Alcove (noun) - a small space in a room, formed by one part of a wall being further back than the parts on each side.

Questions and Answers

R: I'm usually pretty good at keeping track of where everything is, since I'm, well, pretty organized. But recently, I actually misplaced one of my necklaces in the changing room at my local yoga studio. This was about two or three months ago at aerial yoga, and I'd taken, well, I'd taken it off, since it's not particularly safe to have these kinds of things on when you're doing that sort of exercise, and it took a day or two to find it, actually, since I wasn't sure what to do beyond rummaging around for it in the immediate area, and when that didn't work, I just asked the guys who run the place if they could keep an eye out for it. It didn't seem worth the trouble of disrupting other people nearby, and it wasn't likely that it would be stolen or taken away by anyone, well, by anyone who goes there if they found it. I mean, I doubt people who do yoga are the kind of people who would steal something in general, and certainly not something like that. Regardless, I was rather... I was still rather annoyed with myself, since I'd taken it off and I'd placed it in the alcove where my clothes were in order to keep it safe, and I wound up losing it anyway, which is pretty ironic when you think about it. Still, there wasn't much that could be done to change that, so I just waited until I could go back and try again. Like I say, it wasn't likely to go anywhere. So the next time I was there, I actually came across it under one of the benches. It must have fallen off the edge when I was moving around and I couldn't see it on that part of the floor. Needless to say, I was quite pleased to get it back at that point, and since then, I've made a point of taking off any jewellery I have on at home and keeping it in a safe place there. I even set reminders in my diary to remind myself to do that, and then to remind myself to put the jewellery back on so I don't do that again. I prefer to avoid that happening again in the future, for obvious reasons.

M: And do you often lose things?

R: No, like I said, I'm quite organized.