.....opened the old wallet to pay for some outrageously over priced cholestarol medicine at the local Pharmacey today. I handed the clerk my VISA card. Minnie (the clerk) came back and said "Sir, your VISA expired in 1998". Oh, how foolish of me! Here take this MasterCard. Before making myself out to be an ignorant clod again I checked the date -03/02. Expired. Finally I handed her my last known good VISA card. Thankfully it wasn't expired. Good till 2007. I started to poke around in that old fat wallet of mine which by the by makes my left buttock look like a boulder next to a pebble. Lord have mercy on those of us who don't ever clean out our wallets! I had 3 expired credit cards. A Texas Renassiance return ticket (for 2001). 3 Season tickets to 6 Flags Over Texas including the Waterpark (expired 2002). 4 ticket stubs to Halloween Haunted Houses in Houston for the years of 1999, (2) in 2001, and one for 2003. Many pictures of many people. Especially adorable one of my daughter at age 3. She's now 28. I'll ask for an updated one soon. However I do have the grandkids. As infants of course. They are 7 and 9 now. I'll get updates to those too. Expired Houston library card. Expired Brookshire library card, along with a new one. Petco and Pestmart cards which I never use. (I'm sure I'd save tons of money if I only used them). Other stuff like coupons for this, that, and the other thing. Gas saving vouchers for farm vehicles that I don't like using because of all the involved paperwork. I then turned my wallet upside down and it looked like a snow storm of multi-coloured movie ticket stubs from unknow years and movies long forgotten. 2 washers and a lock nut and a large white paper clip also tumbled out. I found a real treasure stuck in the "secret compartment" dealeo. A rather old $2 bill that old Grandpa had given me back when time first began. And the lottery tickets that I've never checked. I went to the lottery stand and had the clerk run them through the lottery checking thingamajig. I had won 3 small pots. 5 dollars each. Then the biggie. 80 bucks. Well, I knew about that one. It was only 2 weeks old. It'll be a start on paying the outrageous price on my Lescol or LaStat or whatever that stuff is. >