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Walter L. Newton1/13/2011 3:45:27 pm PST

re: #63 jamesfirecat

We now derail this thread for a moment so I can bring you guys my own personal pity party (and I’ll cry if I want to)

Those of you who know me really well might recall how last January I posted an angry entry about how I lost my Ipod and yeah it sucked.

Getting a new one cost $100.

Not to be out done this year my inability to recall simple events soared to new heights to make me ruin my life.

I’m now fairly certain lost my wallet yesterday… and I lost it right after I USED IT in order to pull out my metro fair card and pay to cross through the station, meaning I lost it on the less than 100 meter walk from the station to my dad’s car evidently.

My wallet had about $80 dollars in it at the time.

It also had two $25 dollar gift certificates to best buys, two $25 dollar ones to Barns & Noble, and one $50 dollar one for any store I wanted.

All told that’s more than twice as much as I lost last year.

I blame this chiefly on myself and secondly on the weather because I’m sure if I hadn’t been wearing so many layers I would have noticed when the weight of my wallet left me.

So whoopie EPIC FAIL!

PS: The strange thing is that I’m not as upset as I was last year when I found myself in tears. Perhaps this is because of the human condition of the brain which causes us to value a known little loss over an unkown big loss. All that money that I lost I’ve got no idea what I would have bought with it at the moment and thus can not gauge how much I miss having it. I also at the moment still have more books than I have time to read, more computer games than I have time to play, and more mythbusters saved up on my home Tivo system them I have time to watch…

So yeah… I suppose things could be worse… but I am damn sure going to make certain this never happens again!

A bit of advice… staple your wallet to your head.