8/24/2005 09:48:00 PM|||James O'Malley|||

I'm jumping on a bandwagon! That's right! I've already dismounted from my high horse, and I'm instead going to travel by bandwagon! A popular blog thing at the moment is to post the contents of your wallet on the internet, for wallet-based perverts to see what stuff you have. Yes, I'm betraying every sort of post-modernist "I've done a blog for the irony" value I started out this whole blog lark with.

To be honest, the only other blog I've seen this on is Geoff the cool BBC and iPod man. But I'm copying him. My thinking is that if I can emulate him, I might end up working for the BBC, and own an iPod.

So, what's in my wallet? I'm sure you're dying to know.




In the centre of the photo (that's the most logical place to start), you can see my many cards- Natwest Solo card, discount card for my employer (with which I get a staggering 13% off), a national insurance card and most excitingly of all- a Nectar loyalty card. So far I've got a staggering 118 points! You get 1 point per 50p spent (and 100 points for signing up), and you only need a tiny 2000 points to get a chart CD from a very limited selection! How can I lose?

In terms of cash- I've got a grand total of £4.08 in coins, and a £5 note. The curious pink coloured note is infact 5 Iraqi Dinars from the Saddam era. I bought it from eBay for around £3. Thanks to all of the hyperinflation in Iraq, caused by war and stuff, and the fact that it's no longer legal tender (the Americans replaced the currency asap), it had an infinite % mark up.

Above my provisional driving license is a piece of string that Heather and myself used to measure the distance we travelled when we walked to Great Stretton. I don't think the string does justice to showing just how painfully far it was. I'd like to draw attention to the string, rather than the fact that my license is still provisional.

The Virgin Megastores loyalty stamp booklet was obtained on the same day that I bought Heather's fantastic birthday present- and the cinema ticket underneath it is from our jaunt to see Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. You can see some of the exciting bus tickets that helped cause these adventures near my various cards.

I'm desperately trying to think of an internal link I can provide to justify the receipts to the left of the photo, but it's just a Sainsburys and Virgin Megastores receipt from ages ago, despite being the most recent things I've bought. Despite working in a shop, I've found I very rarely actually buy things from a real shop. I'd imagine it's partly because I can't bear to watch other tillmonkeys fail to be as good as me.

Either way, I apologise for this clip-show of an update. The next one will be singing, just like the Simpsons. I'll try and break a world record or something to make the next update exciting!

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