Being CANDYD

Lost And Found?!

I am an absent minded klutz i misplace things very easily... notes, textbooks, my favorite chain, money, novels, cell, earrings even vegetables i purchased! Wish every object I misplace had a ringtone so that i could just call and place it like my cell.. better yet Google its location or something. Anyway before this gets bizarre i'll get to the point. Today a friend of mine lost her bike keys , she ran up to class and looked all over for her keys... some minutes later she came down saying she couldnt find it anywhere.Finally after couple of agonizing minutes she decided to go to the office to check if someone had found it and given it in. She describes the keychain, the lady in charge nods and gives it back to her telling her that she has to pay a fine of Rs.20. Now why will anyone pay a fine because they lost their key? Misplacing stuff is an intrinsic part of Human coding.Somewhere, sometime even the most organized of us have lost our belongings.
IS a Fine the answer?

This entire incident spurred a very movie like flash back... Driving home I suddenly recalled something that took place in school. In preschool or perhaps slightly later... guess i must have been five or six... One day i had misplaced my new lunch box and the teacher helped me look for it. She very patiently helped me search the benches in class, the playground, the corridor and finally the shelves at the back of the class. I found my box tucked to one corner in the lowest shelf. The teacher didn't scold me or chastise me in any way. Instead she smiled as I stopped my sobbing and gave me an orange candy!! That was all...

Isnt the agony of loosing something precious, the thought of makin it home without your bike or the calling up your dad and saying "Dad guess what i seem to have misplaced my keys!", the running up and down lookin for it, lesson enough??Do we need a stupid fine to instill some kind of warning in our heads? "LOOSE SOMETHING AND PAY A FINE-BEWARE!!". Like thats going to stop us from loosing stuff?!
I think the candy from all those years ago did something a million Fines will never do...