I'm an uncool dude. I'm such an uncool dude that I'm tempted to bypass the word filter and just right it out just for emphasis. I am an ih... ah, whatever, I'm just plain stupid.

Alright, here's the story. I'm a starving college student, but my parents were kind enough to provide me a debit card to buy extra supplies. Not enough to buy a ton of LEGO Bricks (if I could even find them. I'm in the middle of a city, but the closest retail store is an hour's bus ride away, I swear). But it's my only source of money outside my university food card.

So I was shopping for Christmas gifts (got permission first to use the cash in my account, mind you). Last Thursday, I bought some stuff at this one shop. This Saturday, I go to buy something else and pull out the card. Oops, not in my wallet. Now, I've been watching some anime lately. That would've been the part where I froze over. You know, where the character realizes something 0of vast importance and just goes into a state up disresponce, also known as freezing up. So those cartoons took it literally and just froze them as if Kopaka had caught them with his elemental power. Yay, I had that experience.

So after tearing apart my room, making a few fervorous calls to people who might know what to do, I finally decided that I didn't have my card anymore. My main source of finances, and I had lost it. Uncool dude!! That's something you're supposed to pay attention to!! Luckily, since it's debit, there's a finite amount, so even if somebody did rip me off, they couldn't spend too much. But still, you don't lose stuff like that and just shrug it off.

I decided to take a chance and visit the last place where I had used it... university supply stop on Thursday. I enter, the cashier recognizes me and asks if I'm looking for my card. By proving myself with a photo ID, I got it back. The cashier was a life saver... although if I had come by next week, they would've had it shredded by then. So I felt a bit better afterwards.

Doesn't excuse the fact that I absentmindedly left the card there in the first place. If I had been at some other store with an untrustworthy cashier... well, they may not have gotten much money from it, but I wouldn't have seen it again. So here's a lesson... if you ever get a credit or debit card or something of importance like that... keep a sharp eye on it. I've seen what happens when people lose their credit cards, and it's not pretty. I got lucky, but I made a big, stupid mistake. I hope not to make it again.