A curious sequence of events

January 23, 2003 in Uncategorized by matt | No comments

I had a very strange experience at the bank today.

Preamble:
I had two cheques and an American money order to deposit. I was going to use the bank machine for the cheques and go to the teller for the money order (in opposite order). I parked the car on Regina Street in downtown Waterloo and stuffed the cheques into my jacket pocket since I wouldn’t need them until after I did my business with the teller. It was cold (surprisingly) so I ran from Regina to King Street. I went into the bank, deposited my money order and then went to the bank machine.

Now, sequentially:

  1. I put my card in the bank machine and entered my PIN.

  2. I reached into my pocket to pull out the cheques. They were not there. Check of other pocket produced nothing.

  3. Realize cheques must have fallen out during the run to the bank.

  4. Exit facility, start looking at sidewalk.

  5. Find one cheque lying on the ground. No sign of other cheque.

  6. Retrace route to car, find nothing.

  7. Realize bank card is still in machine at the bank.

  8. Run.

  9. Bank card not in the machine.

  10. Tell receptionist situation.

  11. Teller asks if “this” is my card.

  12. Yes it is. Take it from her.

  13. Leave bank, feeling slightly embarrassed.

  14. On the way to car, find other missing cheque in the snow.

  15. Shouts of joy.

So in the period of two minutes I went from being on the verge of depositing money to realizing I had lost said money to finding said money again. I was very fortunate this afternoon.

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