Wednesday, October 10, 2007

2-Bagger... cool

Lately, I've been trying to be more serious in my investments and have been reading up on various financial magazines and sites. I'm happy to say that I've finally managed to find some multibaggers. All I have to learn now is some good profit taking techniques.

Faith in Mankind Restored

Once in a while, something happens to you that revives your soul, and your views on life are renewed with the crisp morning dew.

Such an event happened to me this morning, a morning that started like any other: groggy. As I prepared to rush off to catch my morning train to work, I noticed that one of the last things I usually put on, my watch, was not where I expected it to be. Atypical of normal scenarios where I misplace less important things, it quickly dawned on my where I had left my watch... AT THE GYM THE NIGHT BEFORE!! I went through a roller coaster of emotions, thinking it was exactly where I had left it, pondering if anyone had actually reused the very same locker as me, what it would cost me to buy a new watch, having to toss out the manual for the now lost watch. As fast as possible, I had made my way safely to the gym and parked my car in a 15 minute parking spot near the entrance. I ran in and quickly flipped through the locker (that I had used) and the adjacent ones... gone. It was gone. Sadly, I had succumbed to the fact that it was meant to be, and it was my fault for leaving it behind. As I walked past the check-in counter, I hopelessly asked the attendant if there was a lost and found. I think the conversation went something like this:

Me: Is there a lost and found here? Any chance that anyone turned in a watch...
Attendant (with a strange degree of alertness): Sure, what are you looking for?
Me: A Casio watch with a silver band.
Attendant (walking over to a drawer, making some indiscriminant searching noises... then I hear a familiar rattle of my watch band has he turns around): Here you go; someone turned it in this morning.
Me (in a wildly relieved voice): Wow... I can't believe this... its amazing! This is amazing!
Random Patron: Yeah, that's pretty amazing!

Well, there you have it. Sometimes, people have goodness in their hearts and a $250 watch will not sway their honesty.

I'm forever grateful to the honest patron. I will remember to do unto others...