34 PENINSULA NEWS REVIEW : Wednesday, December 9, 1998.

I was ‘ caniively ‘scherhiled -:
to leave on a trip out of the
country in less than a week.
~ Traveling without a credit

card, while possible, is not
__ something to which I look for-
_ward. The plastic works in any
currency. Cash is a pain.

‘On Sunday we made plans.
We would give it until Monday
morning before ordering new

- cards and I would cope with
- the travel as well as possible.
Sunday’s searches produced

rh

narecent Satur-
day morning
trip to the store,
ot I checked to see
if 1 had my credit card be-
fore going inside. I sat in my
car in the parking lot,
slightly stuaned, to find it
asn’tin the pocket where ]
usually carry it.
[like to use my credit card

~ for purchases. Apart from
the airline points I collect
with it, it provides a very

orderly way to manage nothing new, probably because .
-money. [have learned not they were covering the same
to be profligate with the ground already plowed on Sat-
~< card and I find its proper urday. Monday. morning- I
use to be a helpful tool. © : : “= headed for the last place I .
Having it go missing un- ~- . aretobe avoidedatallcosts. “ould look, the office. The card
hinged me completely. - ©. - © -Ilooked everywhere— on Was. t there either — not on.

- Instead of going shopping I top of, underneath, in the pock-.. My desk, not on the. boss's .
: went home to look: No card. af ets of clothes i in the laundry. J desk, not i in any ‘other corner I .
went shopping anyway, paid — phoned the last merchant with could think of to examine.
cash, and: forgot. two of the. whom I had used the card and: = “Then I bent down to get some-
|. things I was supposed to get: ~ any place I could think: of thing from my brief case and .
|. - Had to go back... where I might have dropped it. there it.was, on the floor, ale
"= “Meanwhile, I had visions s of ~<- -When my wife came home! “most lost against the color of fe
someone finding my card and — asked her to look because I _ the rug. What a relief.

~ had not used it for several days common’ affliction: of. hus- ~ worst thing which ever hap.
and it could have been any- — barids, being able to look at Pens to me I will surely count

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