Oh, I should add that I eventually found the headphones in more or less the exact spot where I thought they'd be, making the entire search completely pointless in the end.
Inventory of Stuff I Found While Looking for the Headphones:
-Tons of pictures all of which are at least six or seven years old. I found more pictures from when I got to go onto the field at Shea Stadium and participate in a clinic with Roger Cedeno (before he got fat and slow), Turk Wendell (one of my favorite Mets at the time and all time), Cookie Rojas (sadly, probably my favorite Mets 3B coach; this isn't sad because he sucked or anything, it just speaks to how much I haven't liked the other 3B coaches), and Mike Kinkade (nicest thing I can say about Mike is that he was versatile in the field...sort of).
I also found pictures from my last visit to Yankee Stadium. Those probably aren't that old right? Wrong, try nine years old. It wasn't for lack of effort though, I wanted to go to Yankee Stadium one last time before it closed down but I never got around to it. Actually, I guess that is lack of effort.
My favorite set of pictures, however, were from the Model Congress/UN trips we used to go on in high school. Lots of unnecessary shaving cream usage and pictures of Xander Hancock rocking out to Metallica in there. I'm debating whether or not to put any of these sets of pictures up on Facebook seeing as I'm well aware that there is at least one photo in each group that will embarrass the person or persons in it.
-Numerous cards mostly from various birthdays. These were some of the more depressing items I came across solely because they made me feel extremely old. That's probably stemming from my birthday hangover as well though.
-Form letter from Al Gore from when we were all forced to write letters to him in sixth grade pleading to save the dolphins. Mr. Wallace, the sixth grade science teacher was certifiably insane. Speaking of certifiably insane I believe one Mexico Jones actually wrote his letter in favor of not saving the dolphins. I didn't think that was particularly funny back then because of the pro-dolphin propaganda that was being shoved down my throat; now I find it hilarious.
-Admissions materials from some colleges I applied to. I found this interesting solely because it made me wonder how things would be different if I had chosen to go to a different school. This is why someone needs to invent one of those portal things from Sliders where you could visit parallel universes. What's that? I was the only person who watched that show? Sorry, let's move on...
-A medal from winning an Edward 40-Hands competition junior year of college. Now before you go off thinking about how awesome/disgusting I am for winning, I should clear up a couple facts about this competition.
1. The competition was not particularly stiff. I was at least a 3:2 favorite going into it, if not more.
2. The forties weren't even malt liquor, they were different varieties of light beer I believe. Still, I won by a significant margin despite a late push by a couple other contestants.
-An old ballot from the 2000 All Star Game. This might be my favorite thing that I found. I thoroughly enjoy looking through all the names and seeing who was still active and starting in the 2000 season.
Some personal favorites included:
2B Homer Bush-Blue Jays
OF Butch Huskey-Twins
1B Rico Brogna-Phillies
SS Rey Ordonez-Mets
3B Fernando Tatis-Cardinals
And there's many more where those came from. I may have to fill out that ballot some time and send it in.
-A few more pairs of broken Sony headphones.
-Old high school report cards and schedules. I should keep the schedules by my bed in case I start having the recurring dream where I'm back in high school and I have no idea what my class schedule is again. Seriously, I've had this dream at least 40 times and now that I'm thinking about it I'm probably going to start having it again.
-Countless pairs of ridiculous sunglasses. It seems that I, along with many of my friends can not help ourselves from continuously acquiring absurd pairs of sunglasses. I found at least 7 or so during my search. Many of them were from the now defunct (R.I.P.) $1.29 store on the Seaside Heights boardwalk. Most of the pairs purchased there were obtained during the Summer of '02 which was also when the infamous "sunglasses picture" was taken.
And if anybody knows who the dude in front is, I would love to know.
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