John reached into his left sided pocket to retrieve his key to open the front door of his home. Low and behold, it wasn’t there. Panic could have been the word to sum up his worry, and yet instead he maintained his composure. Probably it had dropped out of his pocket at the gym.
To think he had just walked briskly for thirty-minutes on a cold sunny winter morning, after an hour’s heavy leg day with weights reaching almost 300kg. And now he was obliged to return in hope of finding the key. He had been lucky, as the forecast predicted rain and though he had taken an umbrella, he hadn’t needed to use it. On his no-nonsense walk back, it rained cats and dogs!
He was bowled over from getting drenched. Even with an umbrella the downfall penetrated his training shorts, legs, and Timberland trekking boots. However, he arrived in one piece. No sooner had he asked a personal trainer near the entrance then one of the staff walking close by held up the key he had found near the hack squat machine. ‘Happy days, John thought!’
Moments after he began his home journey than the rain stopped and the sun came out. Yes, he was behind schedule for his online meeting, but content he had actually located the key. He had even imagined the worst scenario, and having to call a locksmith to change the lock in case he couldn’t find it.
John had a mixed bag of emotions, as he had never lost a key before. On one hand he prided himself on his carefulness. He kept items in the same place at home, so he had never gotten like his wife or children who on the other hand always misplaced stuff and then got neurotic about where they had put their keys, money, or other documents.
Certainly, he had to be more careful in future. It pays to be smart and cautious to avoid inconveniences which can become time consuming to sort out.
Take care!
Prof. Carl Boniface
Vocabulary builder:
Fiasco (n) = humiliation, cockup, failure, flop, shambles, disaster, mess
Reached (v) = regular verb from simple present to reach in its past form. (Syn) touched, stretched, grasped, got, gotten, extended
Retrieve (v) = regular verb. (Syn) recover, regain, repossess, salvage, rescue, reclaim, get back, take back
Low and behold (idiom) = is an idiom used to express surprise or wonder. It literally means “look and see!” As such, you would usually use it to tell someone about something surprising.
Though (adv) = although, nevertheless, yet, still, and yet, all the same, however, nonetheless, while, even though
Cats and dogs (idiom) = an English-language idiom "raining cats and dogs" or "raining dogs and cats" is used to describe particularly heavy rain. (Syn) downpour, rainstorm, heavy shower
Bowled over (adj) = dumbfounded, staggered, speechless, surprised, astonished, taken aback, thunderstruck, amazed, flabbergasted
Trekking boots (n) walking or hiking boots.
Locksmith (n) = a person who makes and repairs locks.
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