I Lost My Sandals

Today I spent most of my day at my very attractive friend Jon's house. He had a party at his house because he's leaving for about 2 and a half months on Tuesday morning. It was a good time. It's always a good time at Jon's house. Anyhow, eventually it started raining, and we all went outside... I mean inside. I really could've just corrected that, and ya'll'd never know I made a mistake.

Uhm... I left my sandals outside. They got very wet.

Eventually we all left, and Billy was sweet enough to take me to my car. I erroneously sat my sandals on the roof of my car. I forgot about them.

Later, I heard some strange noises, and realize what was happening. I looked for a place to pull over, but none existed. I thought about turning around, but it was dark and rainy, and I was barefoot. I really didn't care enough about my sandals to go roaming around in the dark rain to find them...

So I counted my loss.

They were cheap sandals, and they had been super-glued back together more than once. I had been considering replacing them anyway...

So anyway, it got me thinking...

I realize it was somewhat irresponsible to put them on my car roof in the first place. that's not what we're discussing. The questions I have in mind are these:

Which is more irresponsible: leaving sandals in the road, or wandering around barefoot in the dark rainy night looking for them? What would you have done? What if it was something expensive? What if it was a bag of trash? What are your thoughts?