... I am a fool. (Yep, it's a bit of a self-flagellating post today.)
In order to make this circumstance a positive one, I offer up to you my story as a cautionary tale. When cleaning off the dining room table where you've emptied out your pockets and read and opened your mail, it is imperative that the (small) pile of money in bills and (large) pile of junk mail NOT be commingled. The risk being, of course, that said (smile) pile of money in bills might just be discarded in the trash can.
AND that said trash bag might just be taken out to the apartment unit dumpster. AND that upon realization of the error (some six hours after the act had been committed), said trash bag might be reclaimed in the middle of the party that the neighbors are throwing on the back porch (it's country night at Wrigley, and they are from Kentucky after all). And that said party-goers might just look at you like you should be committed as you bring trash from the dumpster to your apartment to search for said misplaced (small) pile of money in bills.
And before I lapse into more idiotic behavior, I should pause to thank the city for not picking up the trash in the aforementioned six hour period, and to thank the dumpster divers who regularly root around in the aforementioned apartment unit dumpster for recyclables, and to thank the $130 odd bucks for finding their way back to me like in some final scene of a rom-com demonstrating that it was our destiny to be together.
My goal for the rest of the day -- to no longer be the poster child for the phrase "a fool and his money are soon parted".
DID THAT PHRASE ORIGINATE WITH THOMAS TUSSER?:
http://www.knowyourphrase.com/phrase-meanings/fool-and-his-money-are-soon-parted.html
THANK YOU CITY OF CHICAGO!:
http://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/streets.html
HERE COMES THE COUNTRY!:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-ott-0608-paisley-lambert-doit-20120607,0,6674355.story
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