Down side to the new plan

[susandennis]

Since I go very few places any more, I really don't need a traditional purse (hand bag to those under 50). So I put mine away. I keep my drivers license in the car so I only need my wallet when I am going someplace that doesn't take Google Pay. I took it last Saturday and used an actual credit card to buy gas. And brought it home. And put it on the kitchen counter and that was the last I remember seeing it.

It's not in the car. No one has used any credit cards. But I have no clue where it is. It's not critical. Everything in it can easily be replaced. Well, kind of easily. It means a week or two without my main credit card. At least I have a backup Visa and Costco card in the car and enough cash on hand to pay the house cleaner next week. My two ATM cards are in the wallet, too.

GRRRRR. Looks like this morning I'll be doing a grid search of the house. And then I need to come up with a better plan. Either go back to a purse which is easier to keep track of because of it's size or get another one of those stupid Tile things. Or something.

My swim this morning was great. The pool has four lanes. Two are set aside for hour long swims and two are four 30 minute swims. All are reserved (and paid for) but almost more often than not, they don't come. Today there was one other hour swimmer who swam for 40 minutes. And then two half hour swimmers so two no shows. I asked the front desk person last week and she said that people pay and don't show up often and people pay $10 for a 30 minute swim and come 10 minutes late. People are weird.

But I have a new swim friend. Red Shorts. I 'met' him last week. He was a 30 minute swimmer and asked me about the hour. Today he had an hour reserved and gave me a hearty 'Good Morning!'. He looks to be about my age. Old people fun.

Of course, since I ordered the replacement hard drive for my TiVo, it has not failed once. Murphy and his friggin' law. The drive isn't here yet but now I need to decide to shelve it or put it in. I'm leaning towards the latter but I'd feel better if it would fail just once more.

Biggie just came running in from the other part of the house with a guilty look on his face. I think he would not be able to carry my wallet if he wanted to so I don't think he's to blame for that but certainly he is no innocent.

The Mariners finally won a game yesterday so for sure the stupid Houston Astros will NOT win 60 games this year so yeah. But, it is clear that we have another year or two before the Mariners will be viable. And that could be 2023 or later. Two games are canceled today because of a coronovirus outbreak in the Marlins team. Iceberg tip, I'm afraid.

In addition to tearing the house apart looking for my fucking wallet, I will likely do laundry today and other assorted regular house stuff. All inside. All with the A/C going. It is 9:30 am here and 72 degrees outside and 92 degrees on my terrace (which faces east so is ow in full sun).

Comments

[ringsandcoffee.livejournal.com]

Biggie hid the wallet. He's funny like that. :)

I'm 42 and always called it my purse. I've heard older generations call it a pocketbook, which was weird to me.

[susandennis]

Oh maybe I have it bass ackwards. I've always called it a purse but handbag, pocketbook, everything works for me. But it has been pointed out to me that to some generation or another a purse is what you put coins in not what you put all your stuff in.

A variation on the couch, sofa, divan situation.

[ringsandcoffee.livejournal.com]

I follow someone in England who calls her wallet her purse, and her purse as something else. It helps that it's on youtube or instagram videos so I see what she's referring to, but argh,

[msconduct.livejournal.com]

In Commonwealth English a purse is a wallet that has a coin compartment or a coin-only container, and a US purse is a handbag.

[susandennis]

unless it's a coin purse :)

[letmesaythis.livejournal.com]

"Pocketbook" for my region and age group, Philadelphia, PA, USA, over-50.

[fionnabhar.livejournal.com]

Do check all your pockets while doing laundry. Washing your wallet on top of losing it would be poor form. :-)

[susandennis]

Money laundering!! yeah, checked there. no joy. :(

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

geez, I hope you find it.

[mairi-dubh.livejournal.com]

If the big male cat does something he knows I don't want him to do, or wants to be fed two hours before schedule, he'll go all little kitten on me, and cuddle and snuggle.

May I say how much I admire your sangfroid? Recently I misplaced a check which I needed to deposit, made out for [what to me is ] a significant amount of money, tucking it into a stack of books so the cats wouldn't find in in the ten minutes I was going to be out of the room, promptly forgot where I'd put it, and took the house apart trying to find it over the next three days. Of course the one place I was absolutely sure it was not, the place it could not be is where I'd put it. Meanwhile, I was more than slightly lacking in dignity and grace.

[zoefruitcake.livejournal.com]

I hope you find it

[hopefulspirit.livejournal.com]

Did Biggie maybe decide the wallet belonged on the floor and knock it down? I'm sure you'd have found it if that was the case, but cats do like to push things off edges. I hope you find it, replacing those type of things is a pain.

I call it a purse (I'm 41). The only time I used to hear them referred to as hand bags was when someone was dressing up and using a fancy one, but that was years ago. I don't like carrying a purse but I do, I have too much crap I feel the need to have with me and don't want to leave the my car.

[richaarde.livejournal.com]

I couldn't keep stuff all around like that. I need everything in one place, in my wallet.

[rsc.livejournal.com]

It's too bad you can't just call your wallet and listen for it to ring. (We've used this technique to find jwg's phone twice in the last week or so.)

[susandennis]

I've tried those phone wallets and really don't like using them but, after this maybe I don't like them a little less. At least now I have a Tile in the wallet so I actually can 'call' it.