stop stealing my shit, universe!!

Patterns of me losing my stuff :(

Incident - 1

On Dec 26 2022, I was on a shabby looking bus, travelling from South Goa to North Goa.This bus ride was a short ride, distance being approximately 2KMs. As I had lugguage, I hung my water bottle in the seat in front of me. The bottle was a gift from the company I worked for previously and it was an excellent, most precious, ergonomic, loving bottle I had used till date. As I got up, to board my train, I picked up everything, except my water bottle. And that, my friends, is how I lost my water bottle. Alas! This wouldn't even be the last time this happened.

Incident - 2

On March 21 2020, I had to hurriedly leave my rented flat and move to my home town because of COVID-19. As I moved, I left my newly bought boAt rockerz 5xx in the closet and placed the metal ring, that I had been wearing, on the study table, a gift by my mother from the year 2008. Both these things left behind, in an unknown city, never to be found again :(

Incident - 3

On 27 Nov 2024, I had multiple crazy things happen to me. For the first time ever in my life, the guys at the airport kiosk told me that I'm too late and that they couldn't do anything, asked me to sit down and that they'll help me the best they can. A little disturbed, I quickly added the amount it was going to cost me for spending 10 mins extra talking about random stuff to my family (it would have been worth it). Luckily, the guys came through and I onboarded the flight at the last minute. But this manouver did cost the flight being late 30 minutes.

Now, here's the thing about my journey on this particular date, I had to connecting flight from the first flight's destination to my final destination. Due to the 30 minutes delay, I had very little time to catch the second flight. On top of that, a girl from Lucknow stopped me on my tracks to ask me money for saving elephants/soil ??? WTF! So, I reach the boarding gate and I see some people there, so I asked them about my flight, turns out they're travelling to Deogarh, nice! One of my classmates (and not a friend) was from Deogarh. But why TF is no one at my boarding gate, "it was getting late", I wondered. So I asked the guy at the boarding gate and he told me that I was too late :( If only I hadn't tried to be a saviour of soil at the last moment (and failed any way at that.) Luckily, they gave me another ticket, for free might I add, to my final destination, because the flight delay was their fault.

So, I sat quietly on the seat 12D. As it turns out this seat falls under emergency exit category, so the flight attendant asked me to place my bags on the overhead storage and keep the water bottle with me. Now I had kept the water bottle in my hand, but the attendant helped me place the huge bottle in the front seat pocket. It was a short haul flight and I had downloaded enough songs to listen and doze off to. So, while listening to Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (and Arash + more), brooding with unhelpful thoughts, I spent more than 2 hours just day/evening dreaming. After landing, I waited for the rest of the people to start moving out of the aircraft, collected my bags from the overhead storage and moved out. I reached my place, ate something and thought of having some water. That's when I had remembered that I forgotten my water bottle on the flight :(