A few weeks ago, while doing errands for a friend’s wedding I encountered what seemed like a bad predicament. In my hast that morning to do the assignments given me, I failed to put my wallet in my pocket or get the lose change from the pants I had worn the day before. I did though have the money needed to purchase the items I was assigned to get for the wedding. As I was paying for the items, it suddenly dawned on me that I didn’t have my wallet. There I was 6 or 7 train stations from my point of origin and to get there would cost 15 pesos. I dug into my backpack and was joyously relieved to find 18 pesos. Feeling very lucky, I walked to the train station, my precious 18 pesos in hand. As I was crossing the street to enter the station’s terminal my arm was bumped and a 5 peso coin flew out of my hand, and began rolling away. In disbelief I scampered after the rolling coin. As I was about to grab it, it rolled into the sewer. What luck, now I was 2 pesos shy of getting on the train. I had to walk two train stations over to grab a train worth 12 pesos.
