the empty wallet.

Nov 12, 2006 17:20





of wallets and the memoirs.

the new japanese guy carries 2 wallets. both of the wallets looks exactly the same, color ,size and make. perhaps what differenciates the both of them would be the contents.
One of them is one that he uses, the other would be the one he always confuses himself that he could actually use it because it was empty.
I first noticed the annonyance when we had to pay for public transport. The pick-up was rolling off the road slowly and he had to run to the front to pay the driver.
and so he had forgotten to bring his 'real' wallet which containted the money. I had to run to his aid.
And when we were getting snacks for the night, he was paying for the food when he realized he had forgotten to bring his "empty" wallet.
He break into fits and started getting really flustered. He muttered something in japanese and ran all the back to the head quarters to look for the seemingly useless wallet. One would have been really irritated by this because he didnt't look like he cared when he forgotten to bring his real wallet which contained the necessites but got really crazy over an empty wallet?
I meet all sorts so i didn't probe into this wallet business, besides, they were really an ugly brown.
Last night, a very excited and frightened toon barged into the office. The Japanese guy and him were mugged on the way back from supper.
Toon has been known to explode into screams at the slightest things but this time he got everyone's attention, including the very seemingly professor who seemed pretty much in nirvana half the time.
And the japenese guy came walking into the office after him moments later.
"i didn't bring any money out but he got my handphone! and he got hiro's ( the japenese guy ) wallet! "
.silence.
and everyone burst out laughing after about 4 seconds as we begin to realize why hiro could have always brought 2 wallets out with him. i smile broke out and i though it was really smart of him.
and so i thought until he sat down opposite my table. He asked if he could borrow 50 dollars from the treasury, he had lost all his money to the robber.
!! the idiot had gave the wrong wallet to the robber ?! that was really stupid.. it really didn't make any sense at all!!
and so when he left for bed me being the curious me quickly took his wallet from his table and flipped through it.
as i flipped through the empty wallet i saw something in between the folds.
and in it was a picture of him and another girl, a really old polaroid taken at the airport just before he came.
hiro had treasured this picture so much, unbelivable. lucky girl...
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