Either that, or I’m losing my mind.
I don’t mean that in the sense of going crazy.
I mean like my mind has gone somewhere and I’m not sure where it’s gone.
Let me explain. There are a few things I’ve never done in my life that I’ve done in the past couple months.
1. I left my ATM card in a machine. Never, ever, ever done that before. Realized I’d done it when I was about 3 blocks away. Sprinted the three blocks back to the ATM (no mean feat considering I did it in crowded Shinjuku) only to find it was already gone. Called the bank, got a new card, no damage done.
2. On my way home from the Hanami Sunday evening I lost my keys. Never done that before either. What’s so weird about this one is that my keys are attached to my coin wallet/card holder. No, I don’t keep my ATM card in there. But I do keep lots of other cards in it – a couple of which I have to use to get home.
And I did use them, which makes it even weirder. I used my Suica card to pay for my train ride, then used my bus card to pay for my bus ride. Yet somewhere between paying for the bus ride, riding to my stop, getting off and walking the half a block after I got off the bus to the shop I was getting dinner from, I lost my keys.
Fuck!
I realized they were gone when I went to get some change. I called my boss and she had a spare key to my apartment, so I wasn’t going to have to sleep on the street. I gave her the info about which bus I was on and what time I caught it, so we’ll see if maybe I can get my keys back. Thankfully there’s nothing in there showing where I live. Just my bus card, train card, video card and about ¥3,000 in cash and change. Oh, and my bus and train cards each had just under ¥1,000 on them.
3. Today, I lost my wallet.
I got home from work, went to pull everything out of my pockets an my wallet was not where it was supposed to be.
Double fuck!
I hadn’t taken it out all day. Hadn’t bought anything anywhere, so why would I have taken it out?
But I had…
I went back to work and told my boss that I’d now lost my wallet (just three days after losing my keys). I was dreading having to cancel my ATM card (again!) and get a new gaijin card. Fortunately I’d only had ¥2,000 in it, so I wouldn’t be out any real amount of money. As I was pacing around the school trying to figure out where the hell I’d lost it – I saw it.
Okay, I suppose I technically misplaced it, but I’d left it at work in a place where I’d never put it. (I’d taken it out to copy something off a note inside it and forgot to put it back in my pocket.) But still, how do I go an forget to put it away? Again, something I never, ever do.Now, Alzheimer’s does run in my family, but isn’t 35 a tad early for it to start manifesting? I sure as hell think so.
So my money’s on the gremlins.