Episode 41 - The money we had but couldn't use

Thursday Think Bites · Sep 17, 2026 · 3m · transcript

Episode 41 - The money we had but couldn't use

Tuesday morning, I was running late for a radiology appointment.

I was standing at the door trying to decide which cards to take.

My HSA card. My husband's. A credit card, just in case.

“Take them all,” my husband said. “Worst case, use this one instead.”

So I did.

And somewhere on the drive, I started thinking about a very different trip.

Maybe Ganesh Chaturthi being this week had something to do with it.

More than thirty years ago, my family traveled from Bangalore to Bombay, now Mumbai, for my sister's US visa stamping before she left for…