Interrupting the ordinary MONEY CLASS programming on ~econ (#733580, #737272, etc) for urgent reporting on a stupid mistake.
Possibly, a decent candidate for ~spirituality, too.
I wake up early. Body feels good after yesterday's long walk and tough abs workout. Get to the kitchen, start doing the morning routines: prep some small piece of meat, grind coffee beans, do some stretches, listen to podcasts.
I feel happy. Giggly, even. Day progresses, and I get some reading done and prepare the day's work. At 10 am or so girlfriend joins me, and she remarks on how unusually happy I am. Nothing special, I say; just feel good. It's our last day before I'm going on a five-day trip.
It was, of course, too good to be true.
About two hours later the universe knocked me down a peg or two.
"Where is my passport?"
Fuck. It dawns on my that I never packed it from home. Never occurred to me. And thanks to the megalomanic overlords ruling our lives, I must have this piece of gov-stamped paper to pass the gatekeepers.
I rummage through my bags and my piles of things at her place. Nothing. I call a friend from home who, luckily had his day off and wasn't doing anything so he could go over and check whether I indeed had this piece of expensive government membership card at home.
Yup, laying there in my drawer, precisely where I had stupidly left it.
Can I used the old one (that technically hasn't expired yet)?
Can I go through the machines anyway?
Can I use a drivers' license?
After a few googlings and calls to the embassy -- and consulting the Wisdom of Dad who, busy painting the walls in my sister's apartment, laughed at me for such a rookie mistake -- later I learn that the answers to these questions are big fat "NOs!"
My flight is tomorrow morning.
Only solution? Borrow girlfriend's car, drive the 4-5 hours to my house just to turn around and drive that same distance back again.
I can think of a hundred better ways to spend 100,000 sats in gas and an entire day.
So yea guys, enjoy the ridicule, I hope you got a good laugh out of this -- and if you pitty my unbelievably stupid mistake, feel free to zap to help out with the gas fund.
If not, maybe there's a recent podcast episode you could recommend?
Now, your turn: tell us about some mindlessly stupid thing you did recently that cost you a lot.