I am fairly sure...

[telophase]

...that the book I just picked up off the shelf hasn't been opened since at least 1993, if not slightly earlier. Why? I just found a credit-card receipt from a Texaco station* containing a full credit card number, signature, and an expiration date of 2/13/1993.

This is why, boys and girls, you shouldn't use receipts that contain full credit-card numbers as bookmarks, especially in library books.**




* Price of gas, $1.13/gallon.

** Technically you probably shouldn't use any receipt, but I am being realistic here and will probably never lose my habit of using receipts as bookmarks in books I've just purchased. :D

Comments

[benchilada.livejournal.com]

I found an ATM receipt about a month ago. Only the last 4 digits of the card, but the account total was on it.

TWENTY-SIX THOUSAND DOLLARS.

I hate them.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I hate them, too.

[cerusee.livejournal.com]

I hate them also.

[keelieinblack.livejournal.com]

Oh, I can top that. I once cataloged a book that someone had left an actual credit card in.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Oh, lovely! XD

[cerusee.livejournal.com]

And they say there's no money in cataloging.

[badnoodles.livejournal.com]

Receipts, business cards, empty sweet & low packets, chopstick wrappers, flattened straws, a piece of shoe insole, and an expired nonresident fishing license.

And that's just the stuff I've used while reading Cryptonomicon.

[tygerr.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Now I'm tempted to go through my books to see how many identity-theft-magnets receipts with card numbers I'm using as bookmarks....