Hidden Treasure

My story for today starts about 2 years ago...

I sat through a class on emergency preparedness, where the teacher suggested keeping some cash on hand for emergencies.  It sounded like a good idea so Hyrum offered to go to the bank and withdraw $300 in 1's, 5's, and 10's.  When I got home from work, he was unusually quiet.  Then he gave me a blank face and said, "I don't know where I put the money.  I've been looking everywhere for the last two hours, retraced my steps, and even looked through the trash.  I can't find it.  I must have either dropped it, or thrown it away accidentally."

What???  It took me a while to wrap my mind around how that could even happen.  After that experience I determined that Hyrum's mind sometimes goes on auto-pilot where he literally doesn't remember certain events.  I think my mind is much more photographic, in that I remember almost every small detail of my day.  At the end of the day though, it was just money, and we had more in the bank, so I got over it.  [Although I certainly didn't blog about it!]

Today we were sitting on the couch, relaxing and talking.  All of a sudden Hyrum was holding an envelope full of bills.  His eyes were almost popping out of his head.

What???  Where did that come from?  Hyrum randomly thought he might be able to find pens hidden in the crevices of the couch, so he stuck his hand into the frame [brave man] and felt an envelope.  Bingo.  That's where the missing money had been for all these years.  It had crossed an ocean while tucked safely in the couch.

So now we're rich.  Except that instead of feeling rich, the experience just brought back all those feelings from two years ago when we 'lost' the money:  I can't believe how differently our minds work!  It made complete sense to Hyrum how it would have ended up in the sofa.  And I couldn't even fathom how it ended up in the sofa.

I reached out for the envelope and said, "I'll take it from here."  Now its safe in its place. :)