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I did quite possibly the most ridiculous thing tonight I have ever done in my life. I went to Buffalo, NY, with a friend to do some shopping (about a 2 hour drive into the USA for me) and I LEFT MY CHAIR CUSHION IN BUFFALO. Yes. Seriously. While loading my chair into the car at the last store we went to before we hit the highway to go home (a 24 hour grocery store), I was literally dealing with severe blizzard conditions and 50 mph winds so I was dying of cold and just wanting to shut the car door instead of hanging out of the passenger seat with gale force winds blowing in my face while I struggled with my very awkward chair frame that doesn't fold or collapse in any way and in a huge rush to just shut the door. My friend was busy trying to load a ton of grocery bags in the trunk. I'm pretty sure that what happened is that instead of taking off the cushion and throwing it in the car first like I normally do after popping off the wheels, I just lifted the whole frame with the cushion (which is not velcored on or anything, just sits there) and in the crazy weather, didn't notice the cushion either sliding out of the car, the frame, whatever. I have no idea. The whole weather and wind trauma makes it a blur. I'm seriously ready to request a brain transplant at this point. We got right on the freeway to drive home, get in the driveway, I grab my frame and wheels to start getting it together so I can get out of the car, and NO CUSHION. Start getting frantic and panicked as soon as my friend tells me it is nowhere in the car and that he was busy with the grocery bags and so didn't notice if it had somehow fallen out or gotten left behidn. It's like 2 am, thankfully the store is open 24 hours, so of course I call them right away, finally get someone on the phone who thinks I am PRANK CALLING HIM when I explain the situation. I finally convince the dude to go out to the parking lot to the disabled parking area and sure enough, there is my poor cushion laying in the snow!!!
Thank god it is now safe and sound in the locked office of the store manager--150 miles away. In the United States. While I am here. In Toronto. Sitting on a PILLOW while my buddy digs through boxes I have stored away looking for a spare chair cushion which I think I may have somewhere. If not, first thing in the morning, I will have to borrow a chair cushion from the place I get all my chair crap from, including my new chair, which is due to arrive any day now THANKFULLY. They will be happy to lend me one but in the meantime, I'm fu**ed. In the morning, the store manager is going to call me and we either gotta go pick the thing up or have him fed ex it to me and I will pay the shipping. It's a J2 and I want it back! I seriously cannot believe I did this. Effin' disastrous.
Those things are heavy!
--and told me that in the morning he will ship it back to me at the store's expense. I was floored because that is so incredibly nice of them to do for me, especially at the store's expense. I offered to pay for shipping and he said no, it's okay, I don't have to because it's a customer service thing. I think once the cushion is safely back to me, I will be able to really laugh about the whole situation but right now, I'm still bugging out over it. In the meantime, I have borrowed another Jay cushion to use so no more pillow under my butt, thank god. It would be nice to have a whole army of backup cushions and various chair components laying around but the stuff is so expensive. I just keep an extra set of everyday tires/tubes in case of flats. I get rid of old worn out cushions every couple years but now I think I may just start stockpiling them in case of emergencies like these instead of donating them to places like I normally do when I replace an old one. 
whoops, i'm glad that you are getting it back ok, easily done. i once left my wheels behind! i'd been to nursing home to visit dad, loaded my chair into car, that was a dark very wet and windy night, so was rushing to get door closed took wheels off and placed them against side of car, folded backrest down and lifted chair across me to passenger seat, shut door and drove 20mins home, lifted chair out reached back for wheels and they werent there!! had to ring mum, who rang nursing home, my wheels were just lying on carpark!! so then picked mum up who was actually ready for bed! then drove back to collect my wheels, which luckily were undamaged!"! how i managed it i'll never know, i guess as i always put the tyre against car they just rolled across car and onto carpark, i never heard or saw them, but to get out that carpark you have to reverese back and round so by time went forward wheels would have been on my right side and its a very dark carpark,, must have been a blonde moment!! 
