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jeshyrI lost my bag! WOE!
My awesome loved-to-bits custom-made-just-for-me messenger bag which is juuuuust the right size to hold my immense amount of crap AND fit on my wheelchair footplate under my shins where I need something to rest them on. The bag I carry everywhere and which contained, amongst other things, the oversized pencilcase thingy with all the meds I usually carry around with me.
On the plus side, it DEFINITELY has my name, address, and phone number in it if anybody bothers to look at the paperwork and it did not have my wallet in it at the time. Pretty much all it had was a bunch of crochet, miscellaneous paperwork and my meds (none of which are fun to abuse) - nothing worth stealing except the bag itself. So hopefully somebody will hand it in somewhere.
On the negative side I've had somebody look (almost) everywhere it may have been and phoned the cops and nobody's seen it yet ...
Oh and it was almost certainly lost on my local shopping strip so if I can find some energy tomorrow I'll trip down there and word up all the shopkeepers in the area. Most of them know me - there aren't too many loud women in reclining wheelchairs around who chat to everybody - so that will help at least.
Plesae come home, oh much loved bag ... I miss you!
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The bag fell off my wheelchair on the way to the bike shop where the nice bike guys installed the new tyres on my manual chair wheels. So at least that got done? And I was able to grab the new Urdu book from the library while the tyre guys where doing their thing. So the day wasn't a total loss ... but ARGH.
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My awesome loved-to-bits custom-made-just-for-me messenger bag which is juuuuust the right size to hold my immense amount of crap AND fit on my wheelchair footplate under my shins where I need something to rest them on. The bag I carry everywhere and which contained, amongst other things, the oversized pencilcase thingy with all the meds I usually carry around with me.
On the plus side, it DEFINITELY has my name, address, and phone number in it if anybody bothers to look at the paperwork and it did not have my wallet in it at the time. Pretty much all it had was a bunch of crochet, miscellaneous paperwork and my meds (none of which are fun to abuse) - nothing worth stealing except the bag itself. So hopefully somebody will hand it in somewhere.
On the negative side I've had somebody look (almost) everywhere it may have been and phoned the cops and nobody's seen it yet ...
Oh and it was almost certainly lost on my local shopping strip so if I can find some energy tomorrow I'll trip down there and word up all the shopkeepers in the area. Most of them know me - there aren't too many loud women in reclining wheelchairs around who chat to everybody - so that will help at least.
Plesae come home, oh much loved bag ... I miss you!
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The bag fell off my wheelchair on the way to the bike shop where the nice bike guys installed the new tyres on my manual chair wheels. So at least that got done? And I was able to grab the new Urdu book from the library while the tyre guys where doing their thing. So the day wasn't a total loss ... but ARGH.
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Date: 2014-12-05 12:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-12-05 12:26 pm (UTC)I know why, too - the extra tyres/wheels were sitting on my feet so I was pushing my feet sort of upwards to help hold them instead of just resting them on the bag like normally. I'm still not sure how it managed to fall off in such a way that I didn't run over it (I would have felt that) though, that would havke taken talent or levitating skills.
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Date: 2014-12-05 12:44 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2014-12-06 08:58 am (UTC)It is clearly a bad week for wheelchair bags. I have a beloved wheelchair purse which was fastened to the arm of my powerchair with notebook rings through the attachment points for the purse strap. One attachment point came totally unsewed yesterday. I didn't lose anything, fortunately, but it was on the way home from physical therapy, and I had to carry my purse home in my lap at an awkward angle and my back is cranky.
Do you know the approximate dimensions of the bag? I have spent WAY too much time shopping for wheelchair bags and purses and things, so I might know of something durable-enough-for-wheelchairs in the size you want. (I dunno if you can get another custom bag made, but that often takes time.)
One of these damn days I am gonna save up a bunch of money and go to the people who make the black leather badass saddle bags for Harleys, and commission something for the arms of my wheelchair.
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Date: 2014-12-06 09:04 am (UTC)According to Etsy the bag was 15" wide, 12" High, 5" Deep, you could fit a small child in there if you tried ;) I'd love to hear of anything else appropriate.
Sorry your bag's had a bad week too ... I do hope nothing else negative happens!