Saturday short story

[nanila]

Irritating: Discovering your wallet is nowhere in your house.

Embarrassing: Having to borrow money from your elderly neighbour to pay for your train journey to work because you can't scrape together £6.80 in change.

Humiliating: Being offered a lift to the station from your elderly dressing-gown-clad neighbour - and accepting because it's pissing it down outside and you're carrying your daughter.

Annoying: Canceling all your credit cards on finding that your wallet is not in your partner's office.

Humbling: Being handed your intact wallet by the servers at the university cafe.

Comments

[soliano]

too much to keep track of. Live in the moment.

[nanila]

Clearly I have to. Today I went to work with my shirt on backward. NIIICE

[pbristow]

Oh dear... =:o\ [SYMPAHUGS]

[nanila]

Thank you. *hugs back* I really need a holiday - I left the house with my shirt on backward today and didn't notice until the afternoon, when I finally encountered a mirror.

[lurkingcat]

That sounds like a rotten day. But there was some very kind people in it.

[nanila]

I'm so grateful to them. I was losing my faith in humanity when I thought my wallet had been stolen.

[emelbe]

I'm glad that day redeemed itself but sorry it had to go through four different iterations of crap before it did.

[nanila]

Me too, thanks. Also I need to e-mail you. We've booked our hotel in Cannon Beach but not Portland yet - planning to do that tomorrow night.

[emelbe]

Ok. I've been diligently defending my schedule from attempted invasions. Not so much as a pencilling in has been permitted. Well, with the exception of a possible work thing but that may not be a issue.

[nanila]

Excellent. E-mail has been sent with schedule and hotel details.

[ironed_orchid]

That sounds deeply frustrating.

[nanila]

It was. But amusing from this distance, now!

[sunflowerinrain]

Sympathy. Wallets and cards are always wandering off when you aren't looking. I wish we could scrap cards and keys and ID and do all our realworld security and transactions by our choice of iris or thumbwhorl scan; or skin DNA readers. Of course, use of such tech would only be comfortable if one could trust Them-In-Charge, not only in the present but for the future - something which didn't used to worry me but has begun to. And, of course, if there aren't power cuts...

But, lovely helpful neighbour!

[nanila]

I would be so happy to have some kind of wearable chip that could do Most Everything. Unfortunately, I don't trust Them-In-Charge so I'd be super-paranoid about it, but it would save me from a lot of anxious scrabbling around!

[sunflowerinrain]

The catflap operates by recognising their microchips. Fine for cats, but I find the idea of being Chipped myself a bit worrying. Perhaps an ID chip in a MedicAlert bracelet, now that I wouldn't mind.