Nothing Ventra'd, Nothing gained.

So I didn't have to ride the bus yesterday but I knew my bus card was going to expire today so I was going around trying to find a place to purchase the old magnetic strip card because the Ventra card is FUCKED UP! Well, after a trip to a bunch of stores the only bus pass I found was 1 day and 3 day passes. Totally not worth the money unless you are going to ride all day. Fuck it. I have to buy the Ventra Card and take my chances. Well, I didn't want to walk around like one of those people with tinfoil in their pockets and on their heads trying to keep the government and aliens from reading my thoughts and the RFID chip in the card. PLUS they want you to register the card so that you can "get the registration fee refunded back to you" which is really an excuse to track your movements using the card. No I'm not a conspiracy theorist because MY conspiracies are facts!!

Anyway, once I resign myself to the fact that I have to either buy this card OR clean up my license and buy a car (which is slightly out of my budget for this month) which would be a good thing for my love life (because it's hard to go a on date if you have to wait for the bus to show up and hope you can get a seat together) I then went the task of looking for an aluminum wallet. Why an aluminum wallet, you ask? Because I don't want the looks you get when you have tin foil in your pocket like a loon. At least with the wallet you look stylish and you know other people have it because you "saw it on TV." SO I go looking for the wallet and the first place I look is Dollar General. I ask the girl behind the counter about it and she says they have them. She then asks "male or female?"

"Huh?"

"Male or female? We have wallets but some of them have feminine designs."

I say, "I don't care just as long as it doesn't have 'Hello Kitty' twerking on the front of it."

SHE says, "they might."

Anyway, they weren't the aluminum ones and after checking several stores and their "As Seen On TV" sections I ended up having to order one off the interwebs. So to make a long story short I will be trying this thing out today in about 30 minutes. I will let you know how it works and the shenanigans that will ensue as a result of my first ride. Wish me luck!