In the last 4 days, I have lost 60 pounds (and I mean currency, not weight - I wish!) in total - and I can put it all down to my own stupidity. The first 40 pounds were lost in the form of a parking ticket. I wish I could say that the traffic control person was being an absolute dick, but the real reason was: just as I was getting out of the car, my mobile rang and I forgot that I needed to purchase a parking sticker for my car. Complete moron can't do two things at once!
The second happened so quickly I still have no ideahow. I'd made some DVD copies for a Mum at school and she handed me the 20 pound note just as I was waving off Adriana and Larysa to school. Somehow between school and my car I realized I was no longer in posession of said note!
The question is: can I afford this? I thought back to the days when Orest and I were first married and still using budgets (well actually Orest did the budgets - he just told me how much I could spend per week) 60 pounds would have been my entire week's supply. It probably doesn't help that I still convert to Canadian dollars every time I shell out for something over here - that's over 120 bucks!!
I'm very lucky that we aren't scrimping and saving as we were 20 years ago, cuz I'm getting stupider every day. (20 years from now I'll probably be losing 120 pounds every day because I can't keep my mind on the moolah.)
I did however feel obligated to try and retrieve at least the 20 I lost at the school by asking the school secretary to post something in the school newsletter to see if anyone would come forward and return it. Call it my social experiment of the month.
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