I’m sure you guys been through this one.
Sometimes you left your house feeling that something is not right. You leave your house thinking that you forgot to bring something. Then you spend your entire journey to work reviewing all sorts of possible items that you have left at home yet to no avail.
Is it an important document? Is it some stationery? Did I forget to call someone? Am I suppose to be going somewhere first? These are the questions I kept asking myself.
The answers just don’t come to me. They have god-damn long legs and just kept running away from me. It happened to me just last week. I wasn’t feeling right when I left the house. This strange feeling of something missing. I checked my wallet, my cellphone and my highly-important Mentos sweets. [Mentos keeps me fresh during classes. After chewing it, I often feel sleepy again.]
I just have no idea.
I reach my camp and went up to my room. By that time, I have long given up reviewing my items already. I walk towards the cupboard. Yes, the cupboard. The cupboard. Okay. I knew it. I can’t open my cupboard, I forgot my damn keys.
_(Image of many many Mentos.)_
Luckily I kept a set of keys with the my course sergeant. He kindly helped us safekeep. It’s an idea that turned out useful. I opened my cupboard and I was so relieved, after all, I can’t possibly just be in class the next day with just 1 tube of Mentos right?
The next day, someone locked his key in the cupboard. It happens. I almost did last time. I did that like 5 times during Basic Military Training, luckily we exchange keys. Let’s call the poor fellow Peter since he’s name is _not_ “Peter”.
What happen to him is that he gave a key to the sergeant. But he did not give the spare key of his cupboard to the sergeant. He gave a useless key that is just not his! He only has one key and it is in the cupboard, lying motionlessly, well, that was until…
They pushed, shook and tortured the cupboard in all ways to unlock it but all they did was to prove Peter’s choice of padlock was right ironically - it was too strong. In the end, no matter how strong a padlock is, there is still a way of opening a cupboard. They had to saw open the padlock. I wonder how many extra guard duties Peter would get, hahaa…
And so, I booked out of camp happily. Luckily for me, I have a real spare key with the course sergeant or I probably won’t be as happy to book out knowing I have extra guard duties to do in the coming month.
But you know, it’s the same strange uneasy feeling when I book out. I seem to have forgotten something. Is it my notebook? My wallet? My camp pass? My identity card? My Mentos?
I have no idea. And at the end of my journey back to home, I still have no idea. And I reach my door step. Yes, my door step. My gate. Okay, my gate…
I knew it…
I have that feeling whenever my bag is lighter than usual. And then I do about a dozen checks, though it does nothing to get rid of that feeling.
by Serene (Nov 6, 2005 at 6 PM)Left the file with all my homework in at home once, and didn’t realise till I was on the bus. wahahahahahs~ *_*
Mentos!!!!Oh my god, so many Mentos!!! Ha! Ha! Ha! oh, by the way, you never bring your keys back home or what?
And thanks for tagging my blog!
by cockroach//è??è?? (Nov 7, 2005 at 1 AM)Hey nice starting and nice ending (I like this sentence very much: I still have no idea. And I reach [a certain place]. Yes, [an object]. [another object]. Okay, [that right, that object]â?¦). Human minds are sometimes … erm … what is that word??? … Oh yes, mystifying.
I believed you are not the only one with such problems. I believed there are many others (including myself) have such an encounter before
by Takumi (Nov 7, 2005 at 11 AM)Did you really forget your door gates?
by Nafcom (Nov 8, 2005 at 6 AM)Ya, you are right. Such things did happen to most of us, I guess. I curious as Nafcom, did you really forget the house key?
by Takumi (Nov 8, 2005 at 10 AM)Yup, I forgot my gate keys! I give extra attention to my spare cupboard key that day, and somehow forgotten about my house keys!
Serene: Oh, that happened to me too. And my teacher refuses to believe me. Damn… Do I look like a liar to her?
Takumi: You’re right. Human minds are mystifying. It seems that deep down in the mind, it knows that you forget something but the mind just can’t seem to extract the information out. Probably a C++ pointer problem.
by Mr. Dew (Nov 10, 2005 at 5 PM)@Takumi: No I really never forgot that. But once I forgot to close my letterbox. But luckily I noticed that a few minutes after when I fbrought the rubbish to the streets
by Nafcom (Nov 10, 2005 at 9 PM)Nafcom: Good for you, I lost my keys a couple of times. It’s really troublesome because we had to replace the padlock just because of me!
by Mr. Dew (Nov 11, 2005 at 7 PM)Mr Dew: I am feeling sorry for you
by Nafcom (Nov 12, 2005 at 1 AM)Nafcom: hahaa… That’s okay really.
by Mr. Dew (Nov 19, 2005 at 12 AM)