May 26, 2020
I’m sitting in a café with my good friend—mental health stigma expert, keynote speaker, and professional drummer—Mike Veny. We’ve been chatting up a storm, both having to be somewhere else soon, but pushing the departure envelope because one topic so naturally tumbles into another, like the gentle cycle of clothes in the dryer. The check finally arrives. We scramble for our wallets. I dig through my tote bag. Thinking, “silly women’s handbags—whatever you need always falls to the bottom.” My hand blindly gropes at objects—Android phone, eyeglass case, Moleskine notebook—but none of them have the texture and heft of my wallet. “Could I have missed it?” I wonder. I begin to take out objects one-by-one and put them on the table so that I don’t re-grab what I’ve already dismissed as “not-wallet.” I scrape the bottom of the bag with my fingernails. No wallet. A hot flush creeps up my neck. I feel like a complete mooch. A deadbeat. Here I had cavalierly ordered a healthy salad and full glass of wine … and don’t…
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