LOST

I feel that I have learned another lesson in adulthood 101.

1) First, have good sturdy bag (with zippers!) for work. College bags won’t work for the office.
2) Photocopy all important documents and receipts you have.
3) Presence of mind. ‘Nuff said.

Today, I lost my wallet on my way to work. I just discovered it was gone when I already got to the office. Our accountant was offering change and I wanted to have some of my bills changed, so I dug around in my bag. And…it was gone. *gasp*

For sure I lost it somewhere between Alabang and my office because I remembered getting change from my wallet to pay for my fare. *Sigh* At that moment I hated my tote bag…the very open bag I used in lieu of heavy portfolio bags and small office bags I owned.

Of course I got freaked out – it had my driver’s license in it!:( Along with it’s original receipt (I don’t have any photocopies of it.:() And, I just withdrew some cash that I was planning to deposit in my real account, hehe…unlucky me talaga, since most of the time I don’t feed my wallet.:P I’m only lucky that my license was probably the single most important item there. I don’t have any credit cards, I don’t really keep much cash in my atm account... most of the items there were purely sentimental stuff, like alumni card from high school and my honey’s grad pic.

But the hassle! Shucks, I don’t know if it’s a good thing that I was able to find a scanned copy of my driver’s license….sana may use sya. I don’t know the procedures of filing for another one in case of a lost license.

Anyway, I’m a bit more okay now. It helps talking about it with people. My officemates were just super – I felt better when they tried cheering me up. Also, I could only count my blessings that nothing happened to me…or my cellphone wasn’t snatched…or I could have other important documents in that wallet (hehe, like a future PRC license.) which I could have lost. Next time talaga! – Backups are really important. I would invest in those things from now on.

And tote bags are for beaches only! What was I thinking?!? Ma even reprimanded me for using that bag, and for the first time in recent memory, I wholeheartedly agreed with her.

So yun lang. Gotta go back to work.

P.S. I heard ‘Strangers Again’ by Cinema on the radio just a couple of minutes ago. Super senti! I feel like thirteen all over again, when I first heard that song. Hehe, but that’s for another blog entry….