Blue Kid lost his pea coat over Christmas break. Odd to lose a coat somewhere. How do you not know when you're leaving some place that you're not wearing the coat that you had to wear getting there because it was so cold you had to wear a coat? But, it could happen. He could have left it on the back of the chair in the cafe at Barnes & Noble. But he didn't cuz he went back and looked. He could have left it at the coffee shop in town the night when he went to have some time to himself and read. But, he didn't cuz he went back and looked. Could have left it in The Skimmer's car. Nope. Could have left it in my car. Nope. Could have gotten shoved into a giant Christmas gift bag or the large gift box my rain boots came in. Nope. And nope.
Could have been somewhere in the basement, on the second floor, or upstairs. Nope. Nope. Nope. Could have been on a hanger underneath other clothes in one of the closets. Five nopes to that. No wait. A gazillion nopes to that. We do have five closets here but we also have a gazillion pieces of clothing hanging on hangers and no coats were under any of those hanging clothes.
It wasn't in any of the bathrooms either.
We gave up.
Blue Kid went back to school with one of The Skimmer's coats and last week when we were visiting, I brought up the missing pea coat.
"Don't worry about it, Mom."
"What color do you like again? Blue? Black?"
And he answered, "Black" so fast that I knew he really wanted to either get his favorite coat back or get a new one just like it, even though he told me not to worry about it.
Last night I decided to do a little pea coat window shopping online. Ended up at a site where they gather all the sites together that sell pea coats. Looked at this one and that one, this brand and that brand. Clicked to enlarge the photos, looked at each one from the front, from the back, zeroed in on the sleeves, the buttons. Wool? Wool blend? 100% blend of materials that look like wool but isn't? Why are there epaulettes on that brand? Why do Tommy Hilfiger's have blotches of red in the middle of the buttons? That one looks too long, that one looks too short, that other one has a belt, what is going on? I just want a good, old fashioned, traditional pea coat that I'm not supposed to be worrying about!
I clicked away from the site that gathers all the other sites together in one site and logged onto Facebook. Figured I'd message my sister-in-law, asking her if maybe Blue Kid had left his coat at her daughter's house on Christmas eve.
I hadn't done that before because how could Blue Kid have arrived at his cousin's house wearing a coat he needed to be wearing because it was cold but leave it there when he left when he should have been wearing it because it was probably even colder? And how could The Skimmer and I have watched him leave her house that night with us in the cold not wearing a coat and not have noticed? And how then could we have arrived at my mom's house a bit later, walked through the door without my mom not noticing that Blue Kid was not wearing a coat like he should have been, when she normally notices even if one hair on his head is out of place? And then how on Christmas morning, after spending the night at my mom's, when we were leaving, did not one of us say, "Blue Kid? Where's your coat? Did you leave it at B's?"
So had I thought to look at B's?
Nope!
I messaged my sister-in-law: Did Blue Kid leave his coat at B's?
My sister-in-law replied: Yep!
Great news. Blue Kid is going to be so happy when he gets his old fashioned, traditional pea coat back. But now, every site I go to has ads for pea coats. Every single one that accepts ads. Ugly ads with pictures of pea coats with epaulettes. As if I'm in the market for one of those!
You can buy me a pea coat. I mean, I wouldn't want all that research to go to waste.
Posted by: zombie rotten mcdonald | January 23, 2012 at 10:33 PM
The invisible fingers and hands of the market at work, Beegee.
~
Posted by: ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© | January 23, 2012 at 10:41 PM
ZMR, you want the one with the epaulettes? Or the one with the buttons with the red splotches in the middle?
thunder, I once had a couch chasing me around the internet for months after I had been window shopping!
Posted by: blue girl | January 23, 2012 at 10:49 PM
I would like one with epaulettes and red splotches buttons, please.
Posted by: Another Kiwi | January 23, 2012 at 11:15 PM
Pea Coats for All!
Posted by: zombie rotten mcdonald | January 23, 2012 at 11:55 PM
My shopping cart's getting full!
Posted by: blue girl | January 24, 2012 at 08:09 AM
You're a patriot, Beege.
Posted by: zombie rotten mcdonald | January 24, 2012 at 09:48 AM
These are the things that the J Peterman catalog was excellent for!!! Sure, you paid a buttload, but you got the CLASSIC ITEM!
I'm glad you found it!
Posted by: Jennifer | January 24, 2012 at 11:25 AM
BeeG - Queen of all Pea Coats
Posted by: von | January 24, 2012 at 04:42 PM
A funny scene in the sitcom "The New Girl," one of the roommates has to put money in the "Douchbag" jar every time he says something "douchy." One of the lines was: "Have you seen my good pea coat?"
Posted by: fish | January 25, 2012 at 08:42 AM
What did they consider the good pea coat? Epaulettes or no epaulettes?
Posted by: blue girl | January 25, 2012 at 09:28 AM
epaulettes make for a nice handhold when you are chomping on someone's melon.
Posted by: zombie rotten mcdonald | January 25, 2012 at 02:37 PM
I think it was little red spots (not blood) in the buttons.
Posted by: fish | January 25, 2012 at 03:41 PM
Overall, the most disturbing part of this thread is the revelation that fish watches "The New Girl".
Posted by: zombie rotten mcdonald | January 26, 2012 at 12:23 AM
Ha-ha!
Posted by: blue girl | January 26, 2012 at 12:29 AM
As IF!
Posted by: Larry Jones | January 26, 2012 at 02:21 PM
Hi Larry!
Posted by: blue girl | January 26, 2012 at 05:25 PM
Glad your son got his coat back. Too bad you SIL didn't just message you that she had it! :P
I have a pea coat too. With red splotches in the buttons. :)
((Hugs))
Laura
Posted by: Laura | January 26, 2012 at 06:34 PM
Laura's red splotches are from when she tried to sew her hand. :)
Posted by: Jennifer | January 26, 2012 at 07:38 PM
I have a pea coat too. With red splotches in the buttons. :)
I don't even have a pea coat!!
Everyone has one but me!!
*I* would take one with the splotches, but not the epaulettes. Now WAY on the epaulettes!
Ok, who's gonna show up here that I like who owns one with epaulettes?
Zommmmmmbbbbie? Fess up!!
Posted by: blue girl | January 26, 2012 at 07:38 PM
My pea coat has no epaulets.
Posted by: zombie rotten mcdonald | January 26, 2012 at 08:20 PM
I knew everyone had a pea coat except me.
*slouches off...*
Posted by: blue girl | January 26, 2012 at 08:42 PM
Overall, the most disturbing part of this thread is the revelation that fish watches "The New Girl".
Posted by: zombie rotten mcdonald
1000 times YES!!!!!!!1
Posted by: Kathleen in oakland | January 27, 2012 at 01:46 PM
I heard that there were pea coats here?
But I have heard that there is trouble between the Montagues and the Epaulettes.
Posted by: Another Kiwi | January 30, 2012 at 05:55 PM