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September 19, 2018
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| After he passed a certain age, he came to lose his belongings easily. One time he lost his watch. He was shocked because it was his favorite one, and it was not cheap. He tried to remember where he took it off and went there, but he couldn't find it. Maybe after he left it, somebody took it. But, after a couple of years, it appeared in one of his bags. He hadn't used that big bag so often. He remembered that at that time he used that bag to put in his tennis racket. Maybe he put his watch in the bag when he played tennis and left it. "But why didn't I check the bag when I realized my watch was missing?" He had no idea. It was a bonehead mistake. Anyways, he was happy to have his favorite watch again. But his happiness didn't last so long. After a couple of weeks after finding his watch, the watch disappeared again. And this time, it never appeared again. It was mysterious because this time he was very careful how he treated the watch. When he took off his watch at home, he put it in a certain box by the phone. Outside, he tried to take it off as few times as possible. But, one day, he realized it was gone. One time two of his jackets disappeared. When autumn came, he was about to wear  a jacket, but he couldn't find it. He gave up searching for it for the time being, and was about to wear another one but he couldn't find that one either. Later, he found one of them in the very back of the closet; but, the other jacket never appeared. One time, he found a wrapped tray with cooked food in it. He found it in the front passenger door's side-box a couple days after purchasing it. Needless to say, it was rotten. He guessed that when he put the plastic bag from the supermarket on the seat, the tray accidentally dropped out and fell into the side space. He was amazed that he hadn't realized that it was missing when he ate supper. What a bonehead! On this day, he was looking for his swimsuit. He had two swimsuits and he used them in turns. He put the wet swimsuits on the bar in the bathroom to dry every time. After drying, he put it in the bag that he would bring to the gym. But he couldn't find one. Recently, he had a guest staying at his house, and after that, it was missing. He gave up looking for it for the moment and started to make instant ramen for lunch. He sliced a cucumber and put it in the boiling water that was in the pot. He also put two frozen dumplings and one spring roll in the pot. It was convenient that he bought some ready-made food and froze them, and used them like this. He put in the ramen noodles and the powder flavoring into the soup. It was a pork bone soup, a milky color white soup, his favorite one. Soon the ramen was ready. When he was eating the ramen, suddenly he remembered that he might have put the swimsuit into the laundry basket. At that time, he was in a hurry to clean up the room for the guest, and he might have mixed them up. The swimsuit was there! He happily restarted to eat the ramen. When he ate up the two dumplings and most of the noodles, he realized that there was no spring roll. It couldn't be. He poked around with his chopsticks in the non-transparent soup and it was clear that the spring roll wasn't there. He was shocked but it was not because he lost the chance to eat the spring roll. He definitely put the spring roll in the pot but it disappeared. "Have I gone senile?" He wasn't young anymore, but he wasn't that old either. He could check the remaining pack of the spring rolls whether it lacked one piece's space. But he didn't want to. If it was the perfect pack, it would be too scary. He was looking at the soup. Suddenly he got an idea and started to eat the soup. When he ate most of the soup, there were some pieces of ground meat and carrots that were on the bottom of the bowl. They were the debris of the spring roll. Actually the spring roll's skin dissolved and the ingredients sunk to the bottom of the soup in pieces. He wondered why only the spring roll's skin dissolved and the dumplings' skin didn't. Anyways, he was very relieved that he didn't suffer from senility. He couldn't miss this time as just bonehead. Maybe this was a lesson. He should live more calmly. Or, he would get sick or have a car accident. He should live healthy in his mind even in this fast and competitive society. |
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*needless to say :言うまでもなく
*in turns :交互に
*debris :がれき
*dissolve :融ける