Score one for procrastination |
Score one for procrastination
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Feb. 28th, 2011 @ 11:42 am
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Around Christmas, I lost my wallet. Very specifically around Christmas, because I had it when I went to my parents' house for Christmas, and then I... didn't.
Tracking my movements I worked out that it had to be one of three places:
1) My parents' house 2) My parents' car, in which I drove home on Christmas Day evening, because even if my scooter had been working at the time, which it wasn't, I have a personal rule against going out on the roads on a two-wheeled motor vehicle on peak days for drunken idiocy on the roads 3) My house
Now, we had a rent inspection not long afterwards, and the entire house was cleaned and tidied, and my wallet didn't turn up. I went to my parents' house and searched everywhere in the house I'd been, and I searched the car at least twice.
No wallet.
My parents also looked around their house.
No wallet.
It would turn up one day, in the meantime... I pulled out my fabric spare wallet (a gift from Dean, when my previous wallet was stolen), and have been getting by on the system of borrowing money from friends and, when I went with her to buy a new motorcycle helmet, my mother, then repaying people by bank transfer.
I had finally given up, of late, on finding my wallet, and was girding my loins for the tiresome process of Cancelling Everything, then replacing all the cards in my wallet. This would be annoying, of course. Credit card, bank card, driver's licence, Medicare card, student card, HBF, Lord's gym card... The only one that wouldn't have needed replacing would be my Zoo Friends card, and that's only because I got a new one when I went to the zoo with Nic and Daniel and renewed my membership.
Add to that, my wallet contains a few items of distinct sentimental, though zero actual, value.
It was all just too depressing. So I put off doing it. And put off doing it. I was probably going to cancel my bank stuff today, except... yesterday my mother phoned to tell me that it had turned up.
(Lying in plain sight next to the driver's seat of my parents' car, because the pocket dimension that ate it spat it out again.)
So. No replacements, and the cards I had all still work.
I'd been pretty confident my wallet would turn up as soon as I cancelled everything, but I appear to have succeeded in outbluffing Murphy's Law.
Yay procrastination!
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From: | sqbr |
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February 28th, 2011 04:30 am (UTC) |
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I love when stuff like that happens.
Of course it just encourages us to procrastinate more next time :)
That's amazing! But great!
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