My opinion is that you slipped realities. All realities exist at once, in the same place and time. There can be billions of you in an infinite number of realities. In physics it states that anything that can happen, will. Which meaning in one reality you had the card, and did not give it to your wife.
You felt you had the card in this reality so you slipped to that reality and used it, then your brain caught up with which reality you should be in and slipped back to this one. Is actually not that strange if you think of it in that way. Look up "Reality Shifting" on google.
Supposedly it happens to people all the time, every day. But people who focus on becoming aware of it, and especially those who meditate often, notice it because their mind is less likely to just go with the new information without questioning it.
Edited by SpectralEdge, 27 October 2012 - 09:27 PM.