I'm a ditz

Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore: Girls running around showing off thongs for every occasion from beach to fancy party isn't at all innappropriate. In fact, I was wearing a nice new baby blue pair today.

Here's a math problem. It's incredibly basic, and yet I just freaked out trying to solve it:

You need to pay $250 rent.
You can take up to $500 out of your overseas account on any one day.
You have no money in your local account, so you take out $500.
You can't get to the local bank right away, so you put $150 in a drawer.
You go shopping and spend $6, $1, $10, $8, and $25, plus groceries and snacks

Two days later you are freaking out about your obviously extravagant spending on snacks and things you don't even remember. You took $500 out of the bank and there's no way you spent $450 on groceries, yet you have no money in your wallet or local bank account. What happened?

The solution: You are a ditz. You put aside $250 for rent, and therefore you only need to account for spending $250, not $500. $150 is still in the drawer because you never did make it to the bank. $50 groceries plus $50 spending makes $100. $150 plus $100 equals $250 and you have $400 more than you thought.

At least in this case the ditz moment meant that I have MORE than I thought. It's the other kind that's truly dangerous.