I’ll just ruin the surprise ending to this story and tell you that my ass was saved yet again by someone nice. I guess I’m just getting lucky this year. I managed to leave my wallet on top of my car after filling up my car with gas in Toronto after the improv show. I just drove off into the night, and obviously my wallet fell off onto Spadina Avenue. It didn’t occur to me that it was missing until I got back to Hamilton and started looking around for it. Then the horrible realization set in and I remembered where I had left it. It was like Raising Arizona. I contemplated driving back to Toronto to look for it, but that was a long shot. Even though it was close to midnight, it was Spadina Avenue, and it is crawling with all kinds of people at all hours of the day.
I contemplated all the things I’d have to replace that were in my wallet. The $100 in cash was no big deal compared to my driver’s license, my Visa card, my American Express card, my Royal Bank card, and my Interac card. I don’t even know what else was in there, but certainly my life would suck since I’d have no access to money at all until I replaced the plastic.
Anyway, I went into the house to look up the phone number for the gas station on Spadina. Maybe they would have found my wallet, or a customer would have turned it in. Turns out I had a message from a stranger, saying, “Hey Kevin, did you lose something? I found your wallet on Spadina. Call me back.” I called the guy back and hopefully we’ll be able to meet tomorrow so I can get it back.
I say again, I survive only because of the kindness of strangers. I may have used up all of my good karma for the year, and it’s only June. Man. I’m nervous.
i don’t think you can use it up
i think you have good karma untill you screw it up
ahh ok that’s comforting. i’ll just watch my step 🙂
wow, that’s good luck!
one of my flatmates lost his keys at the beginning of the semester. unfortunately its not intuitive where the keys are from, even though they are quite distinct (university residence do not copy etc). never found them, retraced all his steps that day. a few weeks later another flatemate left her keys on top of the mailbox and someone called in 10 mins later over intercom saying that they found the keys.
i just know that i finished all my losing in new zealand 😀
oh yeah i agree with hesi! your karma should last as long as you feel you are a good person 🙂
Good things happen to good people.
Yea yea good luck……
but who even puts a wallet on top of a car? Dont you have POCKETS? I could understand a cup of coffee or something……but dude were you wasteeeeeed? It does remind me of when I lost my MP3 player though and got it back 4 days later 😀
the wallet on top of car thing is something i do in the summer when i don’t wear a jacket. i can’t stand stuff being in my pants pockets! i guess i might learn to deal with it though after this experience.