I posed a secondary question on another thread, http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=277049, that I felt needed an expansion on my thought process behind the initial question.
So, you wife's purse gets snatched. In that purse are all of her ID, her credit cards, car keys, house keys, maybe office keys. Did she have anything like business cards or maybe a company sponsered medical insurance ID card (which lists the employer's name)? If he gets away, since he now knows where you live from her driver's license, you're looking at rekeying your house and your cars. Her employer has to deal with the expense of rekeying the office. You get to cancel all the credit cards, and get her a new driver's license. Did she, like many women, carry her Social Security card?
If so, you now also have to worry about identity theft.
Since he now knows where you live, is there anything in that purse (like photos of your teenage daughters) that might induce him to watch your house to track your comings and goings, to allow him fairly safe access times? Maybe to break in to the house when no one is home, ransack it, then lay in wait (since he knows when everyone gets home)?
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Maybe I'm just being paranoid. I've moved my wife's purse from the top of the shopping cart down into the bottom enough times while grocery shopping that she now (usually) just puts it in the bottom to begin with. Taking the CC class helped her to realize a bit more that there are bad people out there, so why make it easier for them? But I still worry, because she carries way too many pieces of ID and all of our credit cards, even though we only use one (love the airline miles). On a recent trip to L.A. I carried two wallets. One with my ID and one credit card that we weren't using in one front pants pocket, and another with some cash and the credit card we were using in the other. If I got mugged I would give up the cash and the active card, but not everything. Or at least that was my thought.
Okay, enough rambling for now. Any comments, thoughts, suggestions for the good of the general order?
And I'm not intending to pick on just the ladies and their purses. Many men carry wallets that measure better than 1" thick that if empty are less than half that, so we also carry way too much info as well, should we lose it or have it stolen.
So, you wife's purse gets snatched. In that purse are all of her ID, her credit cards, car keys, house keys, maybe office keys. Did she have anything like business cards or maybe a company sponsered medical insurance ID card (which lists the employer's name)? If he gets away, since he now knows where you live from her driver's license, you're looking at rekeying your house and your cars. Her employer has to deal with the expense of rekeying the office. You get to cancel all the credit cards, and get her a new driver's license. Did she, like many women, carry her Social Security card?
If so, you now also have to worry about identity theft.
Since he now knows where you live, is there anything in that purse (like photos of your teenage daughters) that might induce him to watch your house to track your comings and goings, to allow him fairly safe access times? Maybe to break in to the house when no one is home, ransack it, then lay in wait (since he knows when everyone gets home)?
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Maybe I'm just being paranoid. I've moved my wife's purse from the top of the shopping cart down into the bottom enough times while grocery shopping that she now (usually) just puts it in the bottom to begin with. Taking the CC class helped her to realize a bit more that there are bad people out there, so why make it easier for them? But I still worry, because she carries way too many pieces of ID and all of our credit cards, even though we only use one (love the airline miles). On a recent trip to L.A. I carried two wallets. One with my ID and one credit card that we weren't using in one front pants pocket, and another with some cash and the credit card we were using in the other. If I got mugged I would give up the cash and the active card, but not everything. Or at least that was my thought.
Okay, enough rambling for now. Any comments, thoughts, suggestions for the good of the general order?
And I'm not intending to pick on just the ladies and their purses. Many men carry wallets that measure better than 1" thick that if empty are less than half that, so we also carry way too much info as well, should we lose it or have it stolen.
