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Contents of a Character's Wallet by Jackie H
October 31st, 2006 2:15 PM / Location: 38.943772,-77.06080
I did this task waiting for my van dude to come pick me up at 3:45 a.m. EST, to go from DC back to OAK. It was a good task to do when I couldn't make a lot of noise and I was trying to stay awake.
Purse:
Large pocket:
Birth control pills, trash, 2 paper clips, checkbook, sunglasses,
airborne vitamin stuff, corrective glasses in their case, ipod, Held
Over receipt for $5.43 on 10/23/06, blue and white capsule labeled
"fluoxetine 40 mg R149,"* my wallet
*aka Prozac, which I learned from Google. I only recently discovered this pill in my purse. It appeared somewhere between Oakland and DC. It's not mine. I don't know whose it is; I don't know where it came from. Prozac fairy? (the pill is somehow not pictured--maybe it's buried under something)
Small pocket:
Burt's Bees lip balm, "good" button w/ French flag, Creative Commons
button, cell phone (not pictured, it was on the couch), 2 hair bands,
a paper clip, 3 bobby pins, 2 snap-type hair clips, a ring/faucet part
(?), a dangly thing that fell off a shirt, and my keys: 5 apartment
keys (3 old, 2 new), 3 car keys (mine + parents'), key to parents'
office, key to the club, key to parents' house, bottle opener
Wallet:
Non-cards:
15 cents
Note from Becki before she went to Texas (with flight info from OAK to
BOS and JFK to OAK scrawled on back, as well as my sister's address in
Brooklyn)
CA driver's licenses: current, just previous, fake (claiming I'm now 27)
tetanus immunization card dated 7/16/04
DMV organ donor card
12 first-class stamps
Money clip
Flax art supply receipt for a journal on 10/4/05 for $14.05 (for ex bf
before his trip to japan), "career center id" scrawled on back
Wolf camera stub
10 Russian rouble note
Cards:
REI membership
UCB health services
old law office at which i worked
2 Reel video memberships
2 Cody's books freq. buyer cards
Wolf camera membership
UCB student id
UCB alumni library card
UCB alumni membership
KQED membership
SFMOMA membership
Berkeley public library
SF public library
Phi Beta Kappa membership (I'd like to state for the record that my parents made me do this)
Safeway club
Kaiser Permanente membership
Equitrac copy card
Prepaid internet card ($3/20 min.)
IntoVideo
Coffee Bean Pink Card (now useless)
Blockbuster membership
AAA membership
ATM card
Check card
2 credit cards
Wak Shack hair salon card
Public Transit Cards:
Washington, D.C.
BART
Nice--bus to airport
Nice--6 bus rides
Stockholm--20 kr
Tallinn--bus, 10 krooni
Berlin
Prague
London
Moscow
What the world might think of me:
This girl carries around a lot of shit! She parties (fake ID), travels, but probably isn't some kind of super-rich jet-setter (too many bus cards, too few credit cards). She seems pretty well off anyway though. She has a lawyer, for chrissake. She doesn't use cash (but has a money clip?), is thus credit-dependent, and has a Coffee Bean card, so she probably hangs out in LA a lot, which is another indicator she may be a jet-set type. Seems to be concerned about her hair (Wak Shack, various pins, etc.) but doesn't carry makeup, so is maybe more practical than we think. She is educated (UCB stuff) and interested in the arts (SFMOMA, KQED, library, Cody's, video cards). She gives $$ (probably credit) to the arts. Pretentious? She's on Prozac, which might mean she's anorexic or depressed, maybe both. She's well-prepared for emergencies, thus the birth control pills, stamps, and AAA membership. Maybe a little paranoid and overweening. Takes notes on receipts rather than in a notebook, though she purchased one about a year ago. Where is that notebook?
I guess I think the contents of my purse/wallet are a little contradictory. It was good to see all the travel/arts stuff bubble to the surface, though it was weird to see all the hair stuff.
Purse:
Large pocket:
Birth control pills, trash, 2 paper clips, checkbook, sunglasses,
airborne vitamin stuff, corrective glasses in their case, ipod, Held
Over receipt for $5.43 on 10/23/06, blue and white capsule labeled
"fluoxetine 40 mg R149,"* my wallet
*aka Prozac, which I learned from Google. I only recently discovered this pill in my purse. It appeared somewhere between Oakland and DC. It's not mine. I don't know whose it is; I don't know where it came from. Prozac fairy? (the pill is somehow not pictured--maybe it's buried under something)
Small pocket:
Burt's Bees lip balm, "good" button w/ French flag, Creative Commons
button, cell phone (not pictured, it was on the couch), 2 hair bands,
a paper clip, 3 bobby pins, 2 snap-type hair clips, a ring/faucet part
(?), a dangly thing that fell off a shirt, and my keys: 5 apartment
keys (3 old, 2 new), 3 car keys (mine + parents'), key to parents'
office, key to the club, key to parents' house, bottle opener
Wallet:
Non-cards:
15 cents
Note from Becki before she went to Texas (with flight info from OAK to
BOS and JFK to OAK scrawled on back, as well as my sister's address in
Brooklyn)
CA driver's licenses: current, just previous, fake (claiming I'm now 27)
tetanus immunization card dated 7/16/04
DMV organ donor card
12 first-class stamps
Money clip
Flax art supply receipt for a journal on 10/4/05 for $14.05 (for ex bf
before his trip to japan), "career center id" scrawled on back
Wolf camera stub
10 Russian rouble note
Cards:
REI membership
UCB health services
old law office at which i worked
2 Reel video memberships
2 Cody's books freq. buyer cards
Wolf camera membership
UCB student id
UCB alumni library card
UCB alumni membership
KQED membership
SFMOMA membership
Berkeley public library
SF public library
Phi Beta Kappa membership (I'd like to state for the record that my parents made me do this)
Safeway club
Kaiser Permanente membership
Equitrac copy card
Prepaid internet card ($3/20 min.)
IntoVideo
Coffee Bean Pink Card (now useless)
Blockbuster membership
AAA membership
ATM card
Check card
2 credit cards
Wak Shack hair salon card
Public Transit Cards:
Washington, D.C.
BART
Nice--bus to airport
Nice--6 bus rides
Stockholm--20 kr
Tallinn--bus, 10 krooni
Berlin
Prague
London
Moscow
What the world might think of me:
This girl carries around a lot of shit! She parties (fake ID), travels, but probably isn't some kind of super-rich jet-setter (too many bus cards, too few credit cards). She seems pretty well off anyway though. She has a lawyer, for chrissake. She doesn't use cash (but has a money clip?), is thus credit-dependent, and has a Coffee Bean card, so she probably hangs out in LA a lot, which is another indicator she may be a jet-set type. Seems to be concerned about her hair (Wak Shack, various pins, etc.) but doesn't carry makeup, so is maybe more practical than we think. She is educated (UCB stuff) and interested in the arts (SFMOMA, KQED, library, Cody's, video cards). She gives $$ (probably credit) to the arts. Pretentious? She's on Prozac, which might mean she's anorexic or depressed, maybe both. She's well-prepared for emergencies, thus the birth control pills, stamps, and AAA membership. Maybe a little paranoid and overweening. Takes notes on receipts rather than in a notebook, though she purchased one about a year ago. Where is that notebook?
I guess I think the contents of my purse/wallet are a little contradictory. It was good to see all the travel/arts stuff bubble to the surface, though it was weird to see all the hair stuff.
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posted by Jackie H on November 1st, 2006 8:36 AM
whoops, you're right, i forgot about that part of the task. i think what i would do is fill the empty money clip with fake money. everything in my purse/wallet is so serious and has an air of pretension, whereas i try to be neither of those things, so adding something of practical-joke value would help a lot. i think i am going to do this. good thing my parents never play monopoly anymore, they'll never know.
posted by Ink Tea on November 1st, 2006 9:34 AM
That's an awesome addition to your purse.
and what to add?
I too for some reason did this task at about 4 in the morning. It's the quiet (self-interested) shuffling of cards into orderly rows that calms the heart but won't let you sleep.