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What's in your wallet?

 
 
Reply Sun 27 Jun, 2010 12:44 pm
http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/images/george-costanza-wallet.jpg
Moving on past the mysteries of the contents of purses, http://able2know.org/topic/153490-1we now enter the seventh level of Hell, the wallet.

I have seen every kind, from the Costanza model pictured above, to the guy who pulls out the slimmest money clip with a couple of twenties on one side and a single (always American Express) card on the other.
Women not only have purses, they have wallets in their purses, so they should feel free to add their list here.

Here's what to do: Take out your wallet and just list everything that's in it. Don't try to remember because, as you know, both you and I are always finding things in our wallet.
Here's my list:
MetroCard
ATM Card
Amex Card
MasterCard
Driver's License (what a picture!)
Staples Discount Card
AARP Membership Card (why am carrying that?)
Health Insurance Card for a plan I no longer belong to(!!)
MultLock Key Code Card
Zip Car Card
Bloomingdales Gift Card (six months old. I never get to the East Side)
New York Road Runner Membership Card
New York Public Library Card
$11.00 in cash (one Ten and one One)

So now I'm throwing away that Health Plan Card and filing the AARP Card. Thanks.

I have a firm rule against keeping receipts ever since I wrapped a receipt around a credit card. When I went to look for the card I couldn't see it in my wallet EVEN after taking everything out of the wallet.

You guessed it.
.......Called it in, had it canceled, had to open a new account, spent seven days waiting for the new card to arrive and, of course, it arrived exactly one day before I went on vacation.
Panic had consumed me by then. (What everything will go on the AMEX and then I have to pay for it next month/???)

No more paper in the wallet of any kind.
~~There's another story about a piece of paper with the words "Margo, ya ya ya" and a phone number. Just want to say, never go to Oktoberfest without your spouse and then be cleaning out your wallet at the kitchen counter a few days later as said spouse cruises by. Cruises by in the same sense that a bald eagle cruises by a duck pond. Same eyesight.


Joe(no...the ya, ya thing was just a joke about the chorus of one the songs we were singing while standing on top of a table...... No, no, not just Margo and I, um, there were lots of other people... Jenna, Paula and er, a couple of guys.... I don't know why I don't remember THEIR names......)Nation


 
Rockhead
 
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Reply Sun 27 Jun, 2010 12:48 pm
@Joe Nation,
I used to have the costanza.*

think it contributed to a back problem on the other side of center...

now I carry cash, ID and a bank card if it's loaded.

all receipts go directly to the file stack. (not saying what happens from there...)

*(I had a no business card rule, but never enforced it)

gram still tries to give me a new wallet every christmas...
tsarstepan
 
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Reply Sun 27 Jun, 2010 01:08 pm
@Joe Nation,
MTA subway card;
1 Visa debit card and Mastercard credit card from the same bank;
Barnes and Noble Members card;
A blood donor card for the NY Blood Center;
D'Agostino's Rewards card;
The Tea and Honey Store business card;
my general practitioner's (VA hospital) business card
NY state driver's license;
Department of VA id card;
2 NYPL copy machine prepaid cards (amount on cards = ?);
Queens Library card;
Ticketmaster ticket stub for Lady Gaga's March 31, 2009 concert;
Regal Crown Club (movie theater awards program) card;
Tea and Sympathy business card;
contact numbers to my current job's managers phone numbers;
my sister's Century 21 real estate business card;
an electronic prepaid laundromat card for a laundromat in the Upper East Side;
and finally an old Biscuits and Bath employee id card.
Cash? $0.
http://i48.tinypic.com/2h5s6k1.jpg
George
 
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Reply Sun 27 Jun, 2010 03:29 pm
Massachusetts Driver's License (with requisite ugly picture)
AAA card
Health Insurance card
Dental Insurance card
Social security card
Visa card (family)
Visa card (mine)
Discover card (why?)
ATM bank card
Charlie card (MBTA)
Ten bucks (need a refill)
George
 
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Reply Sun 27 Jun, 2010 03:33 pm
@Rockhead,
Rockhead wrote:
. . . gram still tries to give me a new wallet every christmas...

I have a backlog of three gift wallets in my drawer.
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shewolfnm
 
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Reply Sun 27 Jun, 2010 03:40 pm
my new york metro card Very Happy
Value club card for hotel rooms
Thai Fresh business card
44cent stamp
ID
(Oh...dont tell anyone about THAT...)
health insurance card
bank card
A receipt
ss card
A check
and 2.00
Joe Nation
 
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Reply Sun 27 Jun, 2010 03:48 pm
@George,
Looking at your list and my list it struck me that what you and I should do is get all of our card information tattooed to our arms and neck.
State and Federal stuff on the neck.
Credit Card magnetic strips embedded in our right arms.
Health Insurance Card strips in our left arms. (Roll up your sleeve would then be said at the Intake Desk, rather than down the hall at Blood Work.
The ATM Card Code would be imprinted on our foreheads.

Joe(please place your right bicep closer to the scanner.)Nation
George
 
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Reply Sun 27 Jun, 2010 03:51 pm
@Joe Nation,
I'd say Health Insurance on the butt.
They're gonna make you drop trou anyway.
Rockhead
 
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Reply Sun 27 Jun, 2010 03:54 pm
@George,
and there is room there to change vendors... Shocked

gram still cannot believe I don't carry a wallet. it is not in her realm of how things work.

you mean it's just loose in your pocket???
George
 
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Reply Sun 27 Jun, 2010 03:55 pm
@Rockhead,
Quote:
you mean it's just loose in your pocket???

Worthy of repetition.
djjd62
 
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Reply Sun 27 Jun, 2010 04:00 pm
drivers licence
debit card
mastercard
amex
costco membership
chapters rewards card
best buy rewards card
library card
shoppers drug mart reward card
m&m meats reward card
tim hortons quick card
teaopia gift card (2)
EB gift card
doctors business card with meds written on back
laminated souvenir ticket from tour of the united states capital (found in a used book)
health card
birth certificate
$15
Rockhead
 
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Reply Sun 27 Jun, 2010 04:03 pm
@djjd62,
damn, dj...

you are a walking new identity.

why the birth certificate? trouble remembering your birthday...?
George
 
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Reply Sun 27 Jun, 2010 04:04 pm
@Rockhead,
Rockhead wrote:

why the birth certificate? trouble remembering your birthday...?

Mebbe it's not his.
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tsarstepan
 
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Reply Sun 27 Jun, 2010 04:06 pm
@djjd62,
djjd62 wrote:

...
$15


Look who's flaunting his fortune! Shocked
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Joe Nation
 
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Reply Sun 27 Jun, 2010 04:07 pm
@tsarstepan,
I had to look up Tea and Honey. It used to my favorite singing voice treatment... Grand Central Station!

I'm guessing Tea and Sympathy refers to the restaurant. I love their NOTICE to customers. (20 Rules -- if you want to eat here////)

Movie Card--- I've tried several times to use a rewards card. I never get enough punches or scrape-offs or whatever. The same with Buy Six Sandwiches and Get One Free cards at my local Deli. On 23rd Street, the ownership changed three times in two years and every time I had FIVE sandwiches. arrgh.

All the business cards I get go onto my Blackberry. Most of the time as the person is still standing in front of me. It's really a lot of fun six months later trying to figure out who the hell Raymond Ziegler is. Okay. He's an attorney but why do I have his card?

Joe(dunno)Nation
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Joe Nation
 
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Reply Sun 27 Jun, 2010 04:14 pm
@George,
Oh yeah, worthy.
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Joe Nation
 
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Reply Sun 27 Jun, 2010 04:16 pm
@Rockhead,
Maybe he has a trip planned to Arizona.

Joe(Hey, bubba, c'mere....lemme see some ID)Nation
dyslexia
 
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Reply Sun 27 Jun, 2010 04:19 pm
@Joe Nation,
Joe Nation wrote:

Maybe he has a trip planned to Arizona.

Joe(Hey, bubba, c'mere....lemme see some ID)Nation
yeah, you only need a visa to come to new mexico.
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djjd62
 
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Reply Sun 27 Jun, 2010 04:22 pm
@Rockhead,
weird to me that people don't carry theirs

i've always carried mine, used to carry my social insurance number until i lost it, luckily i can remember the number so i never bothered to replace it (i lost it about twenty years ago)

when i lost my wallet around twenty years ago, i replaced my birth certificate, health card and social insurance card, about a month later i lost my wallet again, this time my health card wasn't in it so i decided to replace only my birth certificate as i had the paper work from my recently replaced social insurance number and didn't want to pay the fee

the real bummer is the birth certificate, the one i lost the second time was the last of the plastic cards ever issued, the replacement was the new paper kind that couldn't be altered (laminated) and eventually dissolve so you have to replace them, nice little money making scheme, still legible but the edges are getting pretty dog eared
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Joe Nation
 
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Reply Sun 27 Jun, 2010 04:26 pm
@shewolfnm,
my new york metro card Good... that means you're coming back.
Value club card for hotel rooms
Thai Fresh business card We'll go to Pongsri then.
44cent stamp I always end up with a stamp stuck to my wallet

ID
(Oh...dont tell anyone about THAT...) I won't. um...why not?
health insurance card
bank card
A receipt
ss card
A check
and 2.00
I used to carry a check or two with me, then I notices that I hadn't used one in FOUR years.

Joe(Way to Go with having the $2.00 on you. Your mom, like mine, must have told never to anywhere with a empty wallet.)Nation
 

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