Sigh… a little bummed out this morning.
I guess it started last night, when I was paying for dinner, and I noticed a funny-looking fifty cent coin in my wallet. I just thought, Thats cool, I’ll look at it later.
For those of you who don’t know, Australia has some really weird fifty cent coins. There’s the most common one, displaying an emu and a kangaroo, and then there are the rarer ones, with some really weird designs on it. I usually try to collect the weird ones. Just for fun. And in the hope that someday, these rare ones would be worth something.
Now, I only glanced at the coin, but I recall thinking, Gee, I’ve never seen that before.
Anyway, fast forward to this morning. I was paying for my coffee, and I fumble around for change. And the cashier is waiting impatiently. And I accidentally gave away the coin. Now as soon as I did it, my mind was screaming, Don’t do it! But I couldn’t for the life of me understand why.
Only afterwards, when I collected my coffee from the counter did I realize my mistake. I *wanted * to walk over, I really did, but for some reason, my legs just kept on moving me away from the coffee stand and towards the tram stop (my usual routine). I looked back, and the coffee stand was busy with customers and I considered asking if I could have my coin back.
But my legs just kept on moving.
And now here I am at work. With that weird feeling of regret. Like I’ve just missed out an opportunity. Or made some huge cosmic mistake. And I’m not sure why. I keep telling myself, *Heck, its just fifty cents. *
But an hour later, I’m still obsessing about it.
Now I’ve hunted up sites of pictures of Australian fifty cent coins. But none of them show the design I thought my coin had. I distinctly recall seeing a koala bear on the coin. So either I was mistaken and the coin wasn’t that rare, or I had the rarest coin in Australia, and I just gave it away.
