Contents of a Character's Wallet by Aaron
June 3rd, 2006 4:10 PMNot in the photos are the two other things usually in my pockets:
Danger Hiptop and 7 Keys: Car, 4 House and 2 Work. The house and work keys look standard enough for a random person to not be able to know what they are for although one would assume at least one is a house key.
Not much more fits in my wallet. The additional truth of me will reside in the changing contents of the wallet. What more about me could you know? The wallet sufficiently provides a vague overview but if you wanted to dig in, you could pick up my hiptop and sift through my email and text messages... my bookmarks and phone book... my calendar and notes... Scary.
Concerning my changing items in my wallet, I've recently taken out the following: Post-It note containing a password to a co-worker's computer, business cards for Nicholas Kosevich, Tod Foley, Mike Obermueller and Brian Forrest. I'll soon be adding 4 tickets to "A Prairie Home Companion" showing at the Lagoon Theater on Thursday that are currently sitting on my desk. I will also possibly add a hotel points card for a hotel I'm staying at in Rochester, MN this upcoming weekend.
My Wallet
A gift from my grandfather. I was complaining one day that I needed a new wallet and he said he had a bunch of them just sitting around that he's never used. I picked this one out of the lot. It's Japanese. My drivers license photo makes me look like a Russian spy, so I'm told. I don't really look much like that I don't think.
Open Wallet
Four First Items
The four first items you see when you open my wallet are my credit card, my bank card, my "College ID" and my drivers license. I think it gives off the impression that I travel. The "College ID" is actually a Namenneko driving permit (google it if you're curious) but to most it looks simply like a Japanese ID with a cat on it. I use it as a college ID when one is asked for for discounts and such. I don't let them turn me down just because they can't read it. A casual person sifting through my wallet probably won't know what to think.
Nine Dollars
Normally this is pretty empty. I don't usually carry cash.
Security Card
I believe this immediately says that I work in some form of office or secured building.
Cards 1-4
Well now my occupation is given away along with implied associations with public access television, pizza and drinking.
Cards 5-8
I'm insured, play those stupid golf machines and buy enough camping gear to warrant an REI membership... although in reality I rarely play Golden Tee and haven't been in an REI in probably over a year.
Cards 9-12
More about the company I work for (by way of reading a mission statement and such), I have a gift certificate for a local coffee shop (although in reality I rarely drink coffee), a card for free Noodles and now you know I'm an MPR member.
Cards 13-14
These two cards imply that I buy natural and organic foods (enough to decide to have a punch card) and yet another card that says I drink coffee. Honestly, I don't really drink much coffee at all!