Winners and Losers
January 18th 2012 21:00
How dopey is this? I saw some coins in a water fountain. Since there wasn’t many people around, I decided to go for a wade. I ended up picking up twenty cents. I also noticed the bottom of my handbag was wet but thought nothing of it; after all, it was a leather bag and it was waterproof to a certain degree.
I then walked home. It was the day of the Homebake music festival and I remember hearing Iva Davies singing I Can’t Help Myself as I walked past the Domain. I smiled as it brought back memories of me watching the video clip to that song when I was about eight years old. I also remembered that back then, Icehouse was known as Flowers which I had thought was an extraordinarily stupid name for a band and that Icehouse sounded much cooler (no pun intended).
It was not until I reached the steps – the GTC’s usual resting place – and saw her lovely form that I remembered my camera was in my handbag. I reached for it and was horrified to see it sitting in a pool of water. I immediately pulled out the battery and memory card and wiped off as much water as I could with my cardigan. The GTC ignored me, as usual. I then went home and put my camera in front of the heater to dry it out completely.
Five hours later, it was my bedtime. And my camera was still not working.
When it was still malfunctioning the next day, I decided to get a new one which set me back $338. The whole episode reminded me of a cartoon I once saw in Mad magazine about a woman who was nagging her husband for not picking up a dime that someone had dropped on the ground. The husband caves in, only to put his back out. He goes to see his doctor, only to be told the treatment would be costly.
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