Fuck fuck fuckity FUCK!!! FFFFUUUUUCCCCCKKKK I suppose I’m pitting my dumbass self here. Self: you are one dumb bitch, you know that?
My driver’s license was in there, so now I gotta watch my back for ID theft. Plastic bank cards, so now I get the fun of canceling those. But worst of all? The very worst cum-encrusted steaming shitheap of it all? I’m trying not to use those damn aforementioned cards, and I just got paid today, sooooo … I’d just hit the ATM. Yep. You aaaallll saw that one coming. Needed to go grocery shopping after work. Now we’ll both starve. I have never lost my wallet in my life - hell, I tend to not lose things, period - and the first time I do it, the very first time I lose my wallet, I have a bunch of cash on me?!? Fuck that noise. Goddammit. I reallyreallyreallyreally couldn’t afford to lose that money. So what’d I do? Lose it. I’m so pissed at myself, I wish I could beat myself up.
Had a tiny hope that some honest good Samaritan would find it. As tiny as the hope that it had slipped out of my purse in the car and was under my front seat. Flashlight ensued. Nada.
Just got off the phone w/ the bank, cancelled my cards. Two gas station charges on my debit, so someone already found the thing and I ain’t gettin’ it back. I can only hope whoever found it needed the money worse than us. Husband comes home in an hour … yay. I get to tell him how I spent my day. And our money. He won’t get mad at me. (Side note: I really love this man. I feel like I deserve something horrible. It won’t happen.) But we’re so mired in debt from having been out of work - at the same time, at one lovely point - that any setback is an order of magnitude worse than if we were semisolvent.
Fuck me. Fuck me sideways with a chainsaw, or whatever the hell it is you kids are saying these days.
Awwwww, crap. Just realized I have to go to the DMV or whatever they call themselves these days for a new license, too. Godfuckingdammit.
As the queen of losing my wallet, I sympathize. Of course it always happens to me when I’m a) on vacation, or b) on a major shopping trip, each of which means that I am carrying large amounts of cash. Don’t know if this will be of any comfort, but twice I have had the actual wallet and non-monetary cards returned to me – once by the police, and once through the mail. My new approach is to divide the valuables between the actual wallet and a wallet-like pocket in my purse, so that if I lose the wallet, I’ll at least have something left. I also stopped carrying credit cards, but that was more of a budget thing than a theft-deterrent.
You know what’s more fun than losing your wallet? Losing your wallet on vacation, so that you have no I.D. to show airport security. In any case, losing your wallet sucks, and I hope you get back on track as soon as possible.
Don’t beat yourself up. People lose things. Rather than you misplacing it, someone may have pinched it when you were distracted, too.
After the last time I lost my wallet, I stopped carrying cash in it and always keep the cash in my pocket instead - not my purse, because I’m just as likely to lose my purse as my wallet. I also never carry in my wallet any card that I don’t need right then, such as gift cards or social security card. Replacing the driver’s license is a pain; bring a good book. Some states have the offices online with realtime info as to how long the wait is so you can plan better.
You might be able to get reimbursed for the debit card use; even though the bank doesn’t have to, they often do.
This is why I don’t carry more than a nominal amount of cash. Cards are much safer. Hopefully that’ll teach you not to use primarily cash again and just muster an ounce of fucking self-control with your cards (you can pretend they’re cash. I don’t get why that doesn’t seem to work for so many people).
You might ask the police to see if the gas purchases might be on video. If they can track down the miscreants you might able to get at least a little of your stuff back and get their asses tossed in jail. Also it’s possible they threw your wallet in the trash where they got the gas so maybe you could recover it from the trash receptacles next to the pumps or look for it in the store’s dumpster.
I realize you might not be able to do the first or want to do the second, but it’s a thought.
I actually use a preloaded visa that I carry with me, the bank cards stay at home. I have 2 of those cheap metal card cases that I use as sort of wallets - one that stays in my purse all the time that has my military ID and health ID cards [and the CVS savings card] and the one that goes in and out, drivers license, loaded card and what little cash I actually carry.
I figure that the one that goes in and out all the time is the one in danger of being lost, and it gives me something I can hand over in case of a mugging that doesn’t endanger my actual bank accounts.
Major commiserations at the loss of your wallet, though =(
Next time around, list everything in your wallet on a sheet of paper left at home to make it easier to notify everybody [or remind you who needs to be contacted]?
That really sucks. I’m sorry to hear it happened to you.
This is good advice, I believe. It’s also convenient to list on that same sheet, the numbers each card issuer has for notification of lost cards - so everything you’ll need is all in one convenient place for that round of phone calls.
That’s fucked, purplehorseshoe. And you, with all your purpley horseshoe luck.
All the advice given is good and too late and just makes you madder.
Just do all the boring and tedious shit you have to do now that it’s no longer with you and don’t beat yourself up. Track down the cunt who has it and do it to them.
Fuck I hate dishonest people. Is it so hard to give the fucking wallet to the person it belongs to? Pit *them, *Oh Purpley One, pit THEM.
I have suitably cursed the wrongful possessors of your wallet.
Are you sure you have to incur any cost here? My bank (Wells Fargo) covers any losses as long as I report the loss promptly, which it sounds as if you did.
