How Smart

 "Where's my wallet?" thought I with my hand in my pocket while approaching the teller at the bank. To make a long story short, Dorothy had to do the banking that day. 

Here's the rest of the story, if you're interested. When we got home, I checked all the usual places: the end tables, the top of the dresser, the cushions in the couch, my desk, the garage, the garden where I had been removing seed pods from the milkweed, my rain jacket, the end tables again just to be sure, the dresser, the couch cushions, my desk, the garage, the garden again... . Third time around, I found it on my desk beside the computer keyboard. What a relief! I was just about to call Visa.

As my pulse returned to normal, I considered the lessons learned.
(1) I'm not as smart as I thought I was.
(2) In a society where the most rapidly growing profession is criminal, one should not carry the keys to the kingdom loose in one's pocket.
(3) Cash would be safer than plastic, because your identity does not appear on it unless you are famous and dead.
(4) I'm not as smart as I thought I was. 
(5) I'm not as smart as I thought I was.

Sometimes, it takes awhile to catch on. I guess I'm not as smart as I thought I was. However, I did guess Canuckle today with only three tries. The answer was 'SMACK', which according to Canuckle is the name applied to a group of jellyfish. How smart is that!