You forgot to mention the purse is usually big enough to house a family of four.
If the woman has children, the purse is merely larger.
(I hope the misses doesn't see this!)
Up here in NE once you are in the system you get a small tag to place on your key chain and just present the check with your tag on keys and no questions asked.
I have one for Pet Co. Wallmart, Right Aid and the grocery stores Shaws, Demoulas, Home Depot. I also have a regular card for all these stores and some not mentioned.
Problem is I never carry the cards in my purse with check book or car keys. If my purse is stolen I am open to all kinds of theft.
New technology makes it so easy for us shoppers today and even easier to get wiped out by thieves.
Most checkbooks have a register where one writes the name of the business and amount written on the check. To get a hold of a check book with that register is a gold mine for thieves that now know where you live and who you pay bills to. They know where you shop for jewelry, big ticket items at Best Buy, they know what you have in your home.
Many of us have just one credit card for emergency's, pay by check with a paper trail is cheaper and safer then the high interest on a credit card of any kind.
I never carry but 2 checks in my purse, little cash, drivers license in my pocket with car keys in other pocket.
It is getting wild out there, it is not the Bandito I fear but the techno savvy that do the most harm.
Paranoid you bet, when my PC was arrested I had no idea how much information was going into the hands of the non police technicians. Who were they that now had information of my SS Number everything I had bought on line, I no longer buy or pay on line or unless an emergency with a credit card.
I want a paper trail, from my hands to the business, to my bank. And I appreciate those that ask for Identification to insure it was I that wrote the check.
CYA ,mail can be stolen, bills can be hidden by family or friends, pay ATTENTION to each and every bill.
For around $500.00 dollars one can buy a 600 pound gun safe over 5 feet tall, One does not have to even have to own a gun, just lock up all records and priceless photographs, all Cd's of financial transactions, jewelery and heir looms. Fire will not harm them , they will be keep safe. Thieves will need a fork lift to remove it.
Time to circle the waggons boys, time to forget about civility and trust in this world, we are being assaulted on all sides, time to arm the woman and keep a closer look out on our kids.
Face it the days of the past are gone, no house wife wears heels while washing the floor or greets hubby with a 4 course meal when he gets home. My kids and grand kids have never had the freedom to grow up in an innocent world.
Rant ended--for now.