Word: carded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...clerk did not give me a playing card. For my receipt, he gave me an object which was not only impossible to describe, but also so large and heavy that I had to drag it around by my foot as I traipsed through the store. This was behavior I had only seen at gas stations where they give you a men's room key attached to a spare tire to prevent you from absconding with...
...proceeded to select an album and bring it to the counter. After disengaging myself from my weighty baggage claim check, I pulled out my Visa card and presented it to the attendant...
...good enough. I had to have a picture ID to verify that I was indeed John N. Rosenthal. Luckily, I was carrying my National Rifle Association member card. The clerk compared the names to see that they matched...
Then she called the Visa company to see if I was a deadbeat. Then she checked the catalog to see if my card had been revoked. Lastly, she filled out the bill and asked me to add my address and phone number to the bottom of the register in order to make sure I really wasn't a deadbeat and to prevent me from absconding with the engine block that served as my claim check...
...ordered the usual 10 bowling trophies, two dozen gold electroplated thermometers and three personalized combination-pen-pencil- business-card-holder-paper-weights...