…or it’s a broken TARDIS.
Over a week ago, I couldn’t find my checkbook. Yeah, checks, quaint in this era of debit/credit cards and online banking yet there’s no other way I will pay the mortgage (Wells Fargo charges for online payments, unless I do the rest of my banking with them, fat chance), the homeowner’s inanity (again, extra for online), contribute to particular charities (Ecology Action, Girl Scouts, etc.) or pay for my lunch at Apple’s cafeteria. Then there’s birthday presents, namely my annual tradition with Christina!
One recent evening, I clearly remember having the checkbook in my back pocket the whole time at the last Stars’ home game. Then I was certain that I put in my bookbag; always in a particular compartment. A couple days later, I couldn’t find it. Before panicking, I figured it was either on my desk at work, the bedroom or lying on the living room floor. After those locations proved fruitless, I emptied out every compartment of my bookbag…twice. Nothing.
Irritated, I went online to my credit union to pay the $25 to cancel the series of checks left in the wallet. Better to lose the 25 smackers than gamble on some schmuck finding it and going to town writing hot checks. Identity theft is relatively easy because the gate keepers, namely Capitol One, are lazy: CO’s new slogan should be “What’s in your wallet? Certainly not a valid driver’s license or photo ID!” I figured nothing makes a lost object show up faster than spending the money to cancel or replace it. Didn’t work…for a week.
Last weekend, I was fishing through the main pocket of my bookbag and there was the Bugs Bunny logo staring me in the face. Either it was wedged under the inner pocket for my MacBook or the bookbag has a hidden compartment made of material from the Fourth Dimension. I have to go with the former because I shook the damned thing hard enough to make the stray Treasure Island candy fall out, why not this. The check wallet is also gray, not black which discounts the camouflage theory.
Should Somara ever buy me a new backpack, I want it to be like this one!