Mismatch

A couple of years ago I bought a new pair of black cable-knit gloves. They were a little more expensive than I should have bought, but they were very soft, and they were long which I love. The next week, I dropped one onto the subway tracks. I bought a much cheaper replacement pair of black gloves - not as soft, and not as long, but I did like the colored thread around the wrist. Those lasted three weeks before I dropped one who knows where. The happy part of this story is that I had dropped the right glove of the first pair, and the left glove of the second pair. I wore the mismatched pair, for the time being, thinking I would replace the gloves at the end of the season when everything was on sale.
Now it's two winters later and I'm still wearing them. Last year I decided to wear them until I, inevitably (I thought), lost one of them, and then I would buy a real pair. Now I think I will never lose them. They are destined to stay with me forever precisely because I would actually like to lose them. It's not such a big deal. Do you know, in two years (half way through my third winter wearing them) not a single person has noticed that my gloves don't match? I do sometimes worry that some stranger on the subway has noticed, and is silently judging me for my mismatched gloves. I know I would.