I threw my credit card in the garbage.
Yep, tossed it. At least, I'm 99% certain but I won't know for sure until I call Subway to find out if the cashier kept it, as has been known to happen. Otherwise, I expect this is what happened: When he handed me my sub, my Subway card, and a stack full of (expired) promotional scratch-offs, I found myself with too few hands. So instead of filing my credit card into my wallet, as I thought I had done, I must have filed it into the rest of the stack of cards which, ultimately, I decided I didn't give a rat's ass about and threw away.
Were our custodians at SEOmoz not so dilligent, I might have been able to pick my card out of the office trash yesterday morning when I realized it was missing (and subsequently held up the line at Trader Joe's)... buuuuut, the trash is taken out every night. Out to the dumpster in front of the building. I know, because I looked.
I even donned surgical gloves and made a valliant effort to pick through the trash and find it. But even though there was only a day's amoung of garbage in there neatly tied into bags it was too time consuming and my arms were just too short. I would have needed a stepping stool and some kind of prosthetic device to actually reach most of the things in there. It might have been easier had the dumpster been full and the most recent trash on top.
In any case, I have now, for the first time, lost a credit card. I feel stupid but it's not a big deal-- I'm amazed by how easy it is to replace it. And since I don't have any autopay accounts linked to it, I'm not really all that inconvenienced, aside from updating my iTunes and PayPal information when I get my new number.
It could have been much worse. It even was slightly worse-- on my way home I got a flat in my front bike tire and it's only the fifth time I've ridden it since I had the tires and tubes changed out. I DON'T want this to become a repeat problem. But luckily I work above a bike shop, and luckily I have a boyfriend and a mini-van, so that problem is now solved.
Posted on February 23, 2006 @ 10:22 AM | 2 comments
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That sounds like a day right out of my daily life. Only if it were me after you lost your card and popped your bike tire you would have accidentally flooded the house of the people you're petsitting for too. I've got notoriously bad luck with that kind of thing. :-\
It's good that you remained good natured about it. Losing a credit card really isnt that big of a deal since replacing it is so easy. But days where retarded shit happens are always better if you laugh at them than if you get an attitude problem.
By 
Titania, at
11:11 AM, February 23, 2006
Oh man, what a string of events! Once I dropped my whole wallet off my bike between UOB and my house, cancelled every card, got a new license, and 3 days later someone found it and called me - even the 4 bucks I had in there was still intact.
Moral? Now I have two licenses, he he he.
Was there a point to this comment? No.
By 
Adrienne, at
2:11 PM, February 23, 2006
