MickinMD ★ Posted June 8, 2019 Share #1 Posted June 8, 2019 ...and then live in fear you'll need it for ID or to buy something over the next few hours? I was driving Jake and myself to our favorite park to walk through when I realized I didn't have my wallet: I had put it on the stand next to my TV when I needed to get a credit card # so I could order one of those Ancestry.com DNA tests (they're on a Father's Day Sale for $59 thru June 17 instead of $99). Yet, even though I knew the wallet was safe at home and I didn't need it for anything, I was worried more than warranted: in today's computer age, even the cops don't give you a hard time about license, insurance, and registration information if you're in an accident: they called mine up and printed it out before I had a chance to give it to them in my recent one, where I was rear-ended by a cellphone user, based on my car's license number. So now, relaxing after the walk and sitting next to the wallet, I'm wondering what I was so bothered about by forgetting it and feeling sort of defenseless: maybe a long-established habit of knowing you had to have it while driving "back in the day"? Or was it just knowing I couldn't buy anything on the spur of the moment - unless I went to Walmart and used my phone's Walmart Pay app? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerrySTL ★ Posted June 8, 2019 Share #2 Posted June 8, 2019 Once I discovered that my wallet wasn't with me at a grocery store checkout line. It was safe and sound at home. I wasn't afraid of the cops pulling me over. It's been 30 years since the last time that happened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisL Posted June 8, 2019 Share #3 Posted June 8, 2019 Not so much with my wallet. I’ll iften leave it behind if my wife and I are taking jack out for a walk at the beach or such. My phone is a different matter. In the Military or as a cop I’d much rather be without my weapon then my radio. I think I have a weird fear going back to then. Not sure how I functioned before my cell phone!?!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilbur ★ Posted June 8, 2019 Share #4 Posted June 8, 2019 No, but I operate two wallets with cash, cards and ID.. Two Canadian passports too.. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirby Posted June 8, 2019 Share #5 Posted June 8, 2019 Only once. My wallet is typically in my purse with my car keys, so I don't leave home without having everything. Except once I took my wallet out for some purpose and left it at home. I noticed it just as I got to work and turned around and drove home to get it. I did drive extra carefully on the way home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shootingstar Posted June 8, 2019 Share #6 Posted June 8, 2019 1 hour ago, wilbur said: No, but I operate two wallets with cash, cards and ID.. Two Canadian passports too.. Why 2 passports? ? While in Canada, my greatest fear ...is actually not having my Canadian public health insurance card on me or my house keys. Former is a form of ID....and it was critical when another cyclist crashed into me. I taken by ambulance to hospital. My partner and paramedic did rummage through my wallet to get that critical ID at emergency services at hospital. I was unconscious for almost 4 hrs. No I don't need to wear a Medic-alert bracelet at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilbur ★ Posted June 8, 2019 Share #7 Posted June 8, 2019 42 minutes ago, shootingstar said: Why 2 passports? ? While in Canada, my greatest fear ...is actually not having my Canadian public health insurance card on me or my house keys. Former is a form of ID....and it was critical when another cyclist crashed into me. I taken by ambulance to hospital. My partner and paramedic did rummage through my wallet to get that critical ID at emergency services at hospital. I was unconscious for almost 4 hrs. No I don't need to wear a Medic-alert bracelet at all. We often need Visa's so sending a passport away for two weeks would limit my ability to work. Two valid and independent passports are the answer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zephyr Posted June 8, 2019 Share #8 Posted June 8, 2019 31 minutes ago, wilbur said: We often need Visa's so sending a passport away for two weeks would limit my ability to work. Two valid and independent passports are the answer. I didnt know having two passports was doable, but makes sense. I use to have a Government passport as well as my personal one, but i thought I was special 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilbur ★ Posted June 9, 2019 Share #9 Posted June 9, 2019 24 minutes ago, Zephyr said: I didnt know having two passports was doable, but makes sense. I use to have a Government passport as well as my personal one, but i thought I was special You just have to show a need. If it makes sense, they will issue you, two. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted June 9, 2019 Share #10 Posted June 9, 2019 I keep an emergency $20 in the glove compartment for when I go to the grocery store and find myself withoot a wallet. Very handy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheep_herder ★ Posted June 9, 2019 Share #11 Posted June 9, 2019 I carry very few valuables in my wallet, and I can survive easily with the fold up that I carry in a separate pocket, and take when cycling. So, leaving the wallet at home is no big deal, and it happens once in a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickinMD ★ Posted June 9, 2019 Author Share #12 Posted June 9, 2019 16 hours ago, ChrisL said: Not so much with my wallet. I’ll iften leave it behind if my wife and I are taking jack out for a walk at the beach or such. My phone is a different matter. In the Military or as a cop I’d much rather be without my weapon then my radio. I think I have a weird fear going back to then. Not sure how I functioned before my cell phone!?!? Funny, I'm also bothered if I don't have my phone. My car's Bluetooth Speaker Phone say's "Connected" after closing the car door activates it. But if I leave the phone in the house it's still close enough to the car to make the connection to the Speaker Phone and generate "Connected." Then, after I go down the road I hear, "Disconnected" and have to go back home for the phone: it's definitely a security device - like when my car was rear-ended in April. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheep_herder ★ Posted June 9, 2019 Share #13 Posted June 9, 2019 We don't consider forgetting the phone a big deal, even when traveling the 150 miles to Billings. We just work around the problem and hope we don't breakdown along the highway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zephyr Posted June 9, 2019 Share #14 Posted June 9, 2019 I go out the door without my wallet more often than I actually take it, especially in summer. I hate things in my pants pockets so I end up carrying them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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