What’s in your wallet?
In mine, you’ll find mostly the usual — driver’s license, credit cards, store cards, AAA card, medical insurance cards, some business cards and a card for free cheese nachos at a local Mexican restaurant with no expiration date on it. I’ve had it for years, because I figure they will have to honor it! I have appointment cards for two doctors’ appointments (both of which I have missed), a few receipts — one from a local restaurant, one from a baker in town whose blueberry muffins have become a Saturday morning ritual. (I affectionately call him the bi-polar baker, because you never know what mood he’s going to be in when you go there.) And finally a receipt from a BMX bike store in downtown Los Angeles that Chandler wanted to go to for his birthday called — and I kid you not — “ONSOMESHIT Store LA.” They have two stores: this one and one in Beijing, China. A bit hard to believe when this one is the size of a walk-in closet.
Sometimes the greatest experiences of giving come from receiving. I have been taught a lot by those who give to the Catch. Last night we received a generous unexpected check from someone who had already recently sent us an extra gift on top of their monthly pledge. I saw the return address on an envelope that was obviously another check, and I wondered if maybe they had made a mistake and had forgotten about their earlier gift. When I opened it, I found the check with this note attached: “Just a little more help.”
John Fischer The Catch 