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I lost it somewhere along the
following path:
-- an old office building at 295 Madison (east side of 41st Street --
12th floor, elevator, or first floor) (about 2:30 p.m.)
-- back down the east side of Madison and along the south (?) side
of
40th Street to the Midtown Manhattan Library (5th Avenue and 40th
Street -- 5th Ave. entrance and exit and 1st floor)
-- a used-book store called Book Off, which has mainly
Asian-language
books (south side of 41st Street between Madison and Fifth, which is
the block facing the
main New York Public Library from the east; I approached and left from
the Fifth Ave.
side)
-- the north sidewalk on 40th Street from Fifth Ave. to Broadway,
then
up the east side of Broadway almost to 42nd Street
-- the Times Square subway station
-- the #2 (or #3?) express train from Times Square to 72nd Street
-- the east sidewalk of Broadway from 72nd Street to 79th(?) Street
-- across Broadway and up a block or so to Zabar's Cafe
-- up Broadway another two blocks to Barnes & Noble on the north
side of 82nd (?) Street
-- throughout Barnes & Noble, including the ladies' room and the
cafe.
I had been sitting in the cafe about 20 minutes (about 5:20 p.m.)
when
I suddenly had the sensation the hearing aid was missing. (But
sometimes I get that feeling even when they're not missing, just
because I don't notice the sensation anymore.) I've been to the
audiologist twice because the right hearing aid is a little loose, and
it was unusually loose the last couple of days (maybe something to do
with a bad cold affecting my ears?).
In the first office building, in that small 12th-floor office, I
pulled
off my white fleece headband, which had been over the top part of my
ears. I'd previously been in a 16th floor office, and the person I
spoke to there says she noticed I was wearing the hearing aid when I
saw her. I may have pulled my headband off again in the library and on
the subway, I'm not sure. I definitely pulled it off as I entered
Barnes & Noble.
The cleaning crew at Barnes & Noble helped me look around for
it.
By the time I retraced my steps to 72nd Street, it had started snowing,
and there was a light coating on the sidewalk. At that point, I was
late for a board meeting at which I'm paid to take the minutes. It
wasn't until 11 p.m. that I went back to Midtown and talked to night
crews in the buildings I'd been in. Cleaning had been done by then, and
one night manager said a cleaning person might have picked up the
hearing aid and put it on a desk. I went back on Friday when everything
was open, and didn't find it.
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