In memoriam

You know how things which you'll spot in the same place a zillion times when you don't require them, will go missing the moment you are in the most dire need of them. It's as if these inanimate objects have a will of their own, and this disappearance is their way of getting back at us for the prolonged indifference we afforded them. The same has happened with me right here, right now, as I give up on my search for the second credit card. You see, I have two credit cards, one of which is the primary one, carrying the bulk of the credit limit, and therefore also the bulk of my transactions. However, on this fateful day when I need to make some ticket bookings, I find that it is already reeling under the weight of my "discreditable" sins of the past month or so. But the transactions I need to make are of an urgent nature, so I turn to my second-in-command, the second credit card. Agreed that it's lilliputian in stature compared to my prima donna, but this is the exact time and opportunity for it to play a memorable cameo role. I fish for it in the little brown wallet in my drawer, where I always spotted it when I would be looking for other things. But lo! it has decided to do a Houdini! I rummage through the miscellanea twice, thrice, but to no avail - it has done a nice old vanishing act! Bags, suitcases, cupboards - everything is searched inside out, but not a sign of my trusted-but-neglected deputy. So it's with a dejected feeling that I decide to blog this down, to at least destroy the apparent futility of the whole episode.

In loving memory of ... the second credit card.

Yenjoy.