This last week has been one full of firsts. I’m in a bit of a rush and can’t really cover the WAIST right now, so I’ll do a quickie…

As best I can remember, I’ve never gotten burned for being too trusting. At least up until about a day ago. I came limping into town after an exhausting week and as I was getting off the taxi one of the guys who I rode in with told me he needed to call his brother and have him come pick him up. He asked if he could borrow my phone and I said “sure.” Then I turned around to put down my backpack and he ran off with my phone.

Suck.

I’m not really that upset about it. It is just really irritating being cut off from everyone. I figure I learned to keep a closer eye on my phone in the future. I’m not beating myself up over it though. I like being trusting. It is sort of like everyone is my friend, I just don’t know them all that well yet. If I had to give that up to get my phone back; no deal.

So anyhow, lesson learned. This really is the first time I can think of that someone has taken advantage of me being trusting. Certainly people have tried, but I’m not a complete idiot. This is just the first time someone has asked for my help and when I gave it to them essentially betrayed it.