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[yingwenlaoshi]

How long does it take you to get over things?

Went shopping, got drunk, carried my bags with me, and left everything in a cab. That was VERY early Monday morning.

Is it the money? I don't think so. It's more the stupidity. I hate losing anything. I'll be over it pretty much completely tomorrow. It was maybe 120,000 lost. Not a fortune, but I did go back in a cab tonight to where I was drinking and they said I walked out the door with everything. Ticks me off.

I'd have to say it takes me a good 2 days before the sting fades away. Comes back again a little at a time and then I finally shake it off.

In ten years it won't matter, so in 10 minutes it shouldn't matter. But I'm human (really).

The best way for me to get over spending too much money or losing something is to wash it away by spending as much again. It's like a cancel out kind of deal, but where I'm actually out double. Hmm. Is that a form of tourette's syndrome or something?

It's like if I have a wild weekend and spend 1 million Won, I have to go out and spend extravagantly again in the near future to justify it.

Needless to say, I'm going to go out and replace what I lost because that was one nice pair of sneakers. Hope they still have my size.

[oneofthesarahs]

Depends. When someone stole my bike from in front of my apartment complex, I was huffy for a good week.

[yingwenlaoshi]

[JMO]

I took a bad beat in a tournament(donkament!!) on runner runner hearts to give some donk a flush. I would have been chip leader but was crippled and recieved 6th place which compared to the top 3 places sucks. Cost me around 2 thousand quid potentially. I was in a bad mood for a week and didnt play again for 2 weeks.

Good thing was that this finally prompted me to stop playing tourneys and go back to cash games. I did feel genuinely sick for a few hours after. Why did he call with that was going through my head for days. Now I'm back in cash games I can just rebuy and win it all back from the maniac.

[yingwenlaoshi]

I bet on 16-1 odds for the 4 horse to win. It won.

I bet 5 dollars.

[mikowee]

Once, I got stoned and lost my pool cue along with its case. I paid over $600 for all of it and I loved playing. It hurt, but not as much as I thought it would.

There was another time where I dropped around $600 in a casino and then got hit with a $300 speeding ticket on the return trip. That was a kick in the nuts.

Also the time I got an actual kick in the nuts. Ouch.

[BS.Dos.]

The ex-girlfriend who ran off with my best friend of about 15 years? Only about 2 years...

...I still miss him.

[plokiju]

That must be one crazy weekend to drop 1M won.

I had my crappy 80,000 won Lespo bike stolen. I'm still upset about that and it was nearly 2 years ago. Not so much because of the bike. I'd only had it for a week or 2 but I felt so much freer having it.

Didn't replace it though and feel the need to replace things that I've liked and lost but after thinking it seems silly so I don't.

I tend to either get over things quickly or not at all.

[yingwenlaoshi]

[Rapacious Mr. Batstove]

I have a pretty similar method of dealing with lost and stolen stuff.

Two years ago I had finished my first contract here, I agreed to stay for another month as my hagwon was having trouble finding a replacement. I had travel insurance back in NZ but only for the length of my contract (one year). Five days after my contract finished and my insurance ran out, my apartment was broken into. My 2.2Mil notebook was taken and my piggy bank was slashed open - it was almost full (I didn't care about the money in the piggy bank but I just really wanted to break it myself).

I was livid for about 18 months until I could afford to replace it with a better one, but it was a long time to be genuinely pi55ed about something that bad.

Another time, I got super trashed and rode my $2500USD downhill MTB into town, dumped it, and continued drinking. It don't remember even riding it to town and assumed it had been stolen. I missioned to the police to report it stolen and get a police report for insurance purposes. BUT low and behold, someone had found the bike and handed it in to the police, I just had to identify it and ride it away. Talk about stoked!! Before that, I was in a suicidal state of depression.

[Rapacious Mr. Batstove]

Oh yeah.

It wasn't even the value of the notebook that hurt the most. I had been playing GTA: San Andreas religiously for a long time. I had completed 99% of the game and all I had to do was spray paint the tags before I had done EVERYTHING possible. Grrrrr

[kermo]

I hate losing things. My wallet is currently *tethered* to the inside of my bag because I have lost it over and over again. Sometimes I put it on top of a bank machine and wander away, sometimes I'll pay for a bus ticket, and by the time I get off the bus, it has vanished. Sometimes I'll just lose the bank card.

Often, I'll lose the wallet and not bother to replace things like credit cards and ID cards, because I know it's only a matter of time before I lose it again.

It hurts, mostly because of my pride, and the feeling that I'm never going to "grow up." I've thought seriously of hiring a nanny for myself.