When you lose an earring, what do you do with the other one? Do you pitch it or do like I do: tuck it away in your jewellery box and hope against all odds its mate will return to you? Logically, I know the odds of me finding that missing earring are about the same as Harry Potter telling Voldemort, “It’s okay, Moldy-Voldy, I’ll just let that whole patricide thing slide. Now let’s get some brewskies,” but I still hold onto it. I just feel nervous about tossing it, y’know? Like if I do, Murphy will laugh in my face and make me find the mate in my cereal bowl next morning, something like that. It’s kind of like a daily slap in the face, too, when I rummage through my jewellery box (which is really just a little Rubbermaid container, because I’m cheap like that) and see one of my favorite earrings, then realize “oh crud, the other one is who knows where, so I can’t wear this one.” Then I have to settle on a less exciting pair of earrings because I wasn’t fortunate enough to lose part of my less-favorite pair, but instead had to go and misplace half of a favorite set. And by ‘misplace’, I probably mean ‘not wear the little rubber thingy on the back of a pair of wire earrings and so it fell out when I was taking off my scarf’. Nuts.