you might have missed WHY i got a new helmet. I had been lusting over the orange CITI helmet but couldn't find a valid reason for buying one.
So when i was at Elliott Bay Bike, there it was. I looked at my old helmet
and there was an almost invisible crack right down the center edge.
If you pulled on it; it opened up.

The day before, the helmet fell out of my closet (about 6 1/2 feet up) bounced
off my head (ooww), and then onto the wood floor.

I think that's what did it, because i examined the thing a month ago in exactly the same way.