Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Miss S. requested, "A story, before long."

wallet story- forever stamp.

"Hey, what's that stamp doing on your laptop?"
"Oh, that's when my wallet was found after lying for nearly a year on the side of the road near Bisbee. We were taking a motorcycle ride one sunday, and we rode out to the Old Timer's bar with some bikers from the American Legion. It was a beautiful day for a ride and I took loads of really cool pictures from the back of the motorcycle and of course had a few beers at the bar. And on the way home, I decided to take the camera out of my bag and take some pictures. As I took the camera out of the bag, the wallet must have come out of the bag. I only noticed when I was going to put the camera back, and the camera case was also missing. (yeah that was me, digging around in the back of a bag on a motorcycle)."
"But you said it was found a year later?"
"Ya, a couple of months ago. I get this sheriff at my house. The Mr. is really wondering what this is all about so he walks right up to her. She asks for me and he tells her I work at Tombstone High. So this kid comes in my class with a note. All it has is the number on it and the kid spits out its from the sheriff. So I call up the sheriff and I have to call a bunch of different places cuz noone could find the wallet or the report number and everyone was going "This number is the wrong size for our case numbers, you'll have to call so and so." It's rural, of course so nobody really knows what's going on at all. Anyway, I finally track down the person with the wallet.
She was a really bizarre lady. She got all mad at me because I hadn't turned up when I'd said I would. But here I was. She made us wait about 25 minutes while she had someone "bring it up." At least there was a neat little display case of artifacts, old guns and mining material, and photos of all the sheriffs of Tombstone going back to 1879. Sheriff Johnny Beehan, who tried to prevent the shootout at the OK corral by claiming to the Earps he had, "Disarmed those cowboys," was among them.
Inside is my CSUN school ID because I still carried it at the time. Even though I look less and less like that photo every year, it doesn't actually have an expiration so I can always get the student rate for tickets. Of course my licesnse and all the credit cards were missing, including a gift-card to Marshall's they had give me when I quit that terrible school in the city. I never even knew how much that was. And cash, of course. And some random assortment of grocery store discount cards. Among the useless, but interesting items was a soggy and muddy check- checks are useless to steal anymore, apparently, and a couple of ancient looking stamps."
"So that's what that stamp is on your laptop."
"Yep, that's my forever stamp. Cuz that's the first wallet I ever had come back to me. The Mr. had one come back to him after a very long time once. His was better than mine. We found it underneath the mattress in the bedroom. Still had all his credit cards, his ID's, cash, everything."

1 comments:

Ms. S said...

Wow, that's awesome.