I went to the bank this morning and wrongly picked up someone else's pass book by mistake. I went to another counter for some work and didn't even realize then that I am carrying someone else's book! Anyways as I was coming out of the bank there was this oldish kind of man standing there as if waiting for me. He kept looking at me from the time I left the counter right upto my walking till the door, which is about 45 seconds. He then came upto me and said "can you check if you have your own passbook?" There was no please in his sentence, his tone or his facial expression. I checked and I realized that I had erred. It was a mistake on my part and I apologised. I said I am really sorry uncle. He tells me, "You should have checked before you walked away from the counter and I am not accpeting your aplogy" !! I understand I should have checked and I made a mistake by walking away with his pass book. But was there a necessity for him to actually be so rude to me when I was sweet to him and said sorry. If everybody only needs to be rude I could have just dumped his passbook in his hand, plucked mine out of his hand made a grumpy face and walked out! Why is it that people are so rude to us even when we are trying to be nice to them?
But actually that is not the issue I am going to write about here. This is about my absent mindedness!! I sent my fees for a course that I had applied last week. It was supposed to be sent in the form of a DD. My brother had repeatedly tolds me to take a photocopy of it before sending it across. and of course I forgot! And then I had to go to the bank and to get the details of the DD! neither did I have to forget the photocopy nor did I need to see that grumpy old man's face early in the morning.
Some people say absent mindedness is mostly coupled with a genius mind. The genius is me was lost on the way to earlt I guess! and only the absent minded me landed here! The other half of me has been left wandering somewhere in between! Sad story.... let me start a search for that half and try and find that. Ah... would google be able to help me on this one??
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Ha ha ha.. the poor guy must have been grumpy as he must have been late to work or he simply might have fought with his wife before he came to the bank... I guess what you went through was not because of absent mindedness... I would call it carelessness!!! We just need to be a bit more alert in what we do.. I have had sessions about this from my folks and friends..I have lost my mobile, badge, Sudex so cards.. Even I left them somewhere in the office and forgot about it.. Everone said that I had a careless attitude and that is why I keep loosing things.. We will get better someday and hopefully we dont have to encounter grumpy and old men when we do something wrong!!!
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