The Search

 Thursday evening.. it was raining snow or rather snaining, I would say.. 

If it was not for the green GO train, it would look like scene from a black and white movie. I think you could see some random people walking in the same direction, towards the gate. Winter jackets, hands in pockets, they want to walk quickly, but then, don't want to fall down, hence making careful strides, they went ahead.. Now.. if you slow down a bit, and look for someone standing out, then you could see me. Do I need to make it explicit.. I'm telling the story, so I have to stand out, right.!!

So, she(me) walked towards the bus boarding point. She couldn't find the 902 bus and checked online to find out that next one is only after half an hour. Yeah, she just missed her bus. It's all because of you.. she did that slow-motion walk just because you were looking..!

Snaining is going into a higher pitch with the wind and it's difficult to stay in the open for another half an hour, so she decided to take shelter in the VRail waiting area. 

She kept her bag and phone down to adjust the neck wrap and free out the hair pricking through it. that's when she noticed the greenish notification on the phone., it says something about ear bud.. let's take a closer look.. (zoomin please..) It's a notification that the right ear bud is missing.. OMG.. she checked her right ear.. hell, yeah it's missing.. checked in the jacket, tried couple of jumps to see if it magically falls.. nope.. "Argh... this is not happening..I might be dreaming", she pinched herself.. it's not!!

It begins here, my dear folks.. The Search...!! As you watch, she quickly grabs her bag, started tracing back her footsteps. Not literally, as the falling snow is making sure to clear out all the tracks. How do you search a 1.5 inch, white earbud in snow..!! 

"Find the Device" app, shows the location of the bud a little further, that means it would probably be in the train. It might have fallen off her ear while she was sitting in the train and fell asleep over the side window. So, she finally decided to search in the train. This is where the actual question comes., in which compartment did she sit.?? Who knows, does anybody notice it, that too on the way back from office, hoping to reach home, change into something comfy, longing to be a couch potato. She too didn't.. She hopped into the 4th compartment. She sat in the middle layer, on the corner seat near to the steps. This made it easy, she only need to check those corner seats in the middle layer. One silver lining.. 

Finally..!! she reached the last compartment and still couldn't find it. The last announcement said that the train will start in 3 minutes. "Okie, I will check in 3 more compartments and it's done, I will have to offboard the train". 1 done, nothing. 2 done, nothing, 3 done nothing..

Wait!!!

Did you see something there? No? Crouch over and zoom in again! yes.. yeah.. there it is!!

We got it!!!

She took it.. rushed out of the train.. waved her hands happily at the train official who was making the final announcement for departure..

Search completed..! she got to the bus terminal just in time for the 902 bus.

This could have gone another way, where she might have decided not to look for it. She could have used the left one that is left with her now, for sometime. Then, may be buy a new one after the remorse is settled. But there would always be this question of  'What if?' and the feeling of incompleteness whenever she opens the bud box. 

P.S. - The 'What if?' popped out anyway. :D