Bold move...

[susandennis]

"At my age, I don't even buy green bananas." I think it was Betty Ford who reported that Nancy Regan said that. Today I re-upped my AARP membership for 3 years! Surely that has to be a waste of money. Optimistic but probably not practical.

More progress today on the credit card situation. We are down to only two lost transactions. One was showing as pending on the old card number but is gone now. But the vendor shows paid so I'm not worried about it. I'm not actually worried about the other either. It was an $8 charge from the corner market. The market is very snooty and rarely, if ever, makes me glad I shopped 'local'. When I bought the ice cream, the clerk barely even acknowledge me. The only other person in the shop was a woman trying to sell him on her locally brewed beers. He was very busy chatting her up so no time to sell anything to me. If he is out his $8, I will not be sad.

Otherwise everything seems to have rolled over from old card to new pretty nicely.

I'm trying a new scheme. $20 and my main credit card in the back of my phone case. Costco visa, debit card 1 and health cards and id and a bit of cash in a wallet hanging on the door. Drivers license, Amazon Visa, regular costco card and debit card 2 with a bit of cash in a wallet in the car glovebox. This solves the eggs in one basket situation. But, I'm not sure it's practical. Probably it will work ok for now, since I never go anywhere.

I appreciate the significance and loss of John Lewis but seriously, when are they going to bury that poor guy. It feels like his funeral has been going on longer than the pandemic.

The Mariners finally played a fun game last night. I'm having so much trouble getting into the whole thing this year. But it does help when they play like they know what they are doing.

Today is a little of this and a little of that and really not much. I have a short list of chores. It's another day too hot to go out but where in the heck am I going anyway? My drugs are not ready yet at Costco. So we'll be entertaining ourselves here in air conditioned comfort.

Comments

[carriea31.livejournal.com]

My husband has a phone case where he can slide his DL, credit card, and a $20 bill in, and he loves it. Of course, he has no other cards or address books or stamps, or all the other junk that I put in my purse, so it works for him, but wouldn't work for me. Hopefully it is a good solution for you, even if not permanent.

[bill-schubert.livejournal.com]

The green bananas quote is a huge Google black hole. Charlie Rangel... Lou Holtz... Irma Bombeck.. Claude Pepper..Chi Chi Rodriguez..

But Betty and Nancy... ah, were I a fly on the wall...

[susandennis]

no shit, that would be one happy fly

[mairi-dubh.livejournal.com]

If I were allowed only one guess as to who said, "At my age, I don't even buy green bananas," I'd put my money on George Burns.

[richaarde.livejournal.com]

Yes! Toward the end of his life, he used to do “at my age” one-liners all the time.

[mairi-dubh.livejournal.com]

LOL!

[hopefulspirit.livejournal.com]

Great quote! I've never heard that one. Makes me think of another quote, something about not saving the fancy candles for a special occasion. That might have been Irma Bombeck but I wouldn't swear to it.

I'm surprised that store stays in business if that's how they treat their customers.

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

I thought it was Bette Davis who came up with the green banana quote but I could be wrong about that.

[susandennis]

hahahaha - thanks for the chuckle

[timbear.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure how a copy of ID or membership cards goes down there but as a back up I have scanned all mine to PDFs in Dropbox. Also, just about every place here that take cards also takes contactless payments so Google pay has been a real bonus for me.

I'm never without my phone so this all works for me. The thing that also works here is that we aren't required to carry identification and nobody other than law enforcement routinely asks anyone who is clearly over 18 for identification.

[susandennis]

I also have everything scanned in. I have heard that, in a pinch, the cops are ok with a scanned license (like if/when you are pulled over). BUT cannabis shops are not. They don't mind (or don't notice) an expired one but they do need an actual, legit, photo id. Having said that, I go into a cannabis shop maybe once a year. Maybe.

We are getting more an more Google pay but it's not quite there yet. I do use it whenever it's offered and loveit.

[timbear.livejournal.com]

We don't even need to have our driving license with us when driving. If a police officer wants to see it you can present it at any police station within seven days of being asked. It's a good idea to have it though, the last time I went to a police station it was horrific and took hours!

[susandennis]

yeah i think we have that 'perk', too, with the same penalty.

[jwg.livejournal.com]

I think that if your car gets stolen having the drivers license in it isn't a good idea.

[susandennis]

I'm curious why. what difference would that make? what use would the drivers license of a 71 year old woman be to a car thief? my address is a secure building and i can't think of what other useful info they could glean from the license.

Tell me what I'm missing.

[jwg.livejournal.com]

It is your ID - which might be misused by the thief - who also has your credit cards.

Also when you go pick up your recovered car they might want to see your ID.

[susandennis]

But, how. How might my ID be misused? I'm willing to be convinced but I'm not there yet.

My credit cards will be canceled the minute my car is gone.

When I pick up my recovered car, I'll have a replacement license and/or the photo of my current one.