9/20/2008

In light of a bad situation

So, today was rather frustrating in that I lost my wallet in the Newpark Mall. The wallet itself while not worthless was falling apart and certainly not a big loss, there was a grand total of a quarter worth of actual cash in the thing, my drivers license, my atm card, my student id cards, and several rewards cards, as well as my potential tattoo art which I think I will take as a sign not to get the tattoo. Thats the sum of the contents of my wallet, but its amazing how stressed loosing those things can make a person. Surprisingly enough aside from some wasted gas and minor inconviencing the lost items dont actually hurt me much, my interim drivers liscense paper doesnt expire for a week or so which means I drive while I wait for my new ID to come in the mail. The Atm card I had canceled within an hour of loosing the darn thing so no harm there. The Student ID card wasnt really even an issue except that I have library books out which means I can't express return or check out right now... boo hoo. So aside from the $11 worth of replacement fee's for the student id and atm card, probably $10 more for the liscense, the gas to get to the dmv, and the inconvience I think i made out pretty good in these crazy days of cyberfraud and indentity theft. Maybe some punk kid will go buy ciggarettes with my id.... I hope he/she gets lung cancer.
So on the bright side, While I frantically searched my path of travel several times I asked the various vendors and the people at the few stores I had been in if they had seen my wallet and left info with a couple of them. Now not only did the manager of the Spirit store take the time to talk to me shake my hand and take down a bunch of information but he said he would pass along the information to security for me, which I had already taken care of but thats unimportant. I was thoroughly impressed with this store manager and if I can figure out how I intend to send an email to the people in charge of the spirit store and appluad this guy. Another lady who saw me looking and I asked about the wallet at one point was working at this nick nack vendor and on my way out of the mall asked me if i'd had any luck finding my wallet, something that struck me as kind. So the moral of the story is that humanity scored its first points in my book in a very long time. In the flavor of optimism lets just start the score fresh and see how it turns out.

Humanity:1
Evil:0

Oh and the retard in the halloween costume advertising in some part of the mall doesnt know how close he/she was to having the shit beat out of them, I imagine at the time they atempted to get me to go visit the store in their pathetic vampire voice I had a red aura of anger and had I not been so sinlgle minded at that moment it would have been very bad for all parties involved.
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Football went over pretty smoothly today, though I can't say im a fan of all the new rules intended to make it easier for the "weekend athletes" felt a bit like being stripped of my advantage maybe next game the big guys wont be allowed to push to make up for their size advantage or something, it was a good game pretty close with some nice plays and not so many interceptions. Im still getting the feeling that despite being one of the fastest people out there and one of the most generally in shape, that is not intended as bragging in any way, I'm getting treated with a bit less respect due to my age. I dont really care if your 26, 30, or 40 you start calling into question my honor thats not right, I understand its a game and people get hot headed but at some point enough is enough. Oh, well whats done is done, but boy im sure not gonna be pulling any punches or slowing up one iota the next time im coming in to hit them.

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