What Do You Do If You Find A Wallet?

Wallet Well if you’re the punk malcontent who found my wallet yesterday, you go on a shopping spree...at Rite Aid, Vons, and Ralphs (a convenience store and two grocery stores). 

Really, if you’re going to try and spend my hard-earned credit, at least go buy something decent like a stereo system.  There’s a Best Buy just down the street that isn’t much further away than the local Vons.

I mean who spends $103 at a Rite-Aid?!  Who!?  I really mean it. Who? I’d like to know because I want my wallet back.  And to the store clerks there, doesn’t it even slightly ring the suspicion bell in your head when someone tries to buy $103 worth of anything at Rite-Aid?  I didn’t even know you could buy that much stuff at a Rite-Aid. I figured buying out everything in the store would lighten your wallet by about $70, tops.  Maybe he bought the cash register too.

Did you even look at the guy and compare his picture to the Id, my Id, he presented?  There’s not a lot of hapas running around L.A. so I doubt he looked that much like me, assuming it was a "he".

Anyways, yesterday on a short walk, I dropped my wallet.  A really comical mistake like you see in the cartoons. I put my wallet in my side cargo-short pocket, which unbeknownst to me, had a huge gaping hole in it.  I returned back to the area literally 10 to 15 minutes later, and it was gone.  And then the charges started showing up in my account as I frantically called to close my cards.

Anyways, that’s why I rushed out a new release of Subtext last night.  I figure follow something bad with something good.  Oh, and I bought a lottery ticket.  I know, the chances are pretty much nill. But what were the chances I’d put a wallet in a pocket with no bottom?  This is a chance for the world to get back to even terms with me. Wink

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Requesting Gravatar... Scott Oct 26, 2006 11:05 AM
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You know how much meth you can make with $103 worth of Sudafed and generic sudafed? Well, errr, um, I sure don't.

Not to mention all the condoms you have to buy when you flash a pimp-id with the last name "Haacked" on it.
Requesting Gravatar... Haacked Oct 26, 2006 11:17 AM
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Heh heh. Well I'd hope buying $103 worth of Sudafed would flag an alert. But then again, I expect too much. ;)

I just hope whomever has my id uses the power responsibly.
Requesting Gravatar... jiltedcitizen Oct 26, 2006 11:44 AM
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What would you buy a $103 worth at RiteAid? Beer of course.
Requesting Gravatar... Robb Allen Oct 26, 2006 1:19 PM
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Makes me feel better about myself. My wife blew a speaker in her car - the kind that can only be purchased at the dealer (each speaker has it's own amp built into it).

When I went to pay, they totally forgot to charge me the $167 dollars for the speaker. I let them know.

So, at least some people are semi-honest in these days. Of course, $103 worth of NyQuil and KY *is* kind of tempting.
Requesting Gravatar... Haacked Oct 26, 2006 1:25 PM
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Isn't NyQuil and KY kinda counterproductive with each other for their stated goals.
Requesting Gravatar... Brandon Oct 26, 2006 2:22 PM
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What is a Rite-Aid? Also I would have to agree if the best buy is close at least go for the Xbox 360. BTW sorry to hear someone got some stuff for free on your buck.
Requesting Gravatar... Robb Allen Oct 26, 2006 2:35 PM
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"Isn't NyQuil and KY kinda counterproductive with each other for their stated goals."

Uhhh.... depends on the 'goal'...
Requesting Gravatar... Haacked Oct 26, 2006 2:47 PM
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My respectable blog is degenerating into a Yahoo congressional chatroom.
Requesting Gravatar... Haacked Oct 26, 2006 3:20 PM
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@Brandon: Rite-aid is a convenience store/pharmacy.
Requesting Gravatar... b0rg Oct 27, 2006 4:40 PM
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Bah!
serves you right...
it's the way the gods punished you for mentioned "model view presenter". You see now, it's all coming back :-)
Requesting Gravatar... Haacked Oct 27, 2006 4:43 PM
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Low blow! Low blow!
Requesting Gravatar... Willie Tilton Oct 30, 2006 2:18 PM
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Shoot, my wife noticed her wallet was missing after we left our neighborhood athletic club. It was late so we just were going to go in early the next morning. We had forgotten that she had $400 in cash sitting in her wallet.

They took the wallet, the cash, but we cancelled all the cards before they got "brave". I understand taking the cash, but the wallet? Why couldn't they have left it there? That was another huge pain in the butt replacing ID's, CC's, etc.

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