I just lost my wallet on the way home from work • Hacker News Board

Re: I just lost my wallet on the way home from work

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Post by tlb » Wed, Oct 16, 2019, 3:06 AM UTC

fortran77 wrote: post #348

DoreenMichele wrote: post #316

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I turned in more than one lost wallet or debit card to a librarian (or similar) while homeless. I didn't want to call them myself or whatever because I was homeless and I knew I was automatically suspect as a thief because of it. So I wanted someone the world would trust/believe to deal with it. Well before I was homeless, attempts to return wallets or found ID cards or whatever were consistently met with suspicion.…

I am 56 years old. I have never found a wallet or a debit card except one I found a card in a restaurant where I just hand it to a server.

I've found 2 and lost 1 in 49 years. But you'd need more than a couple data points to suggest anything. Let's at least require p<0.05 before suggesting something is "odd".

Re: I just lost my wallet on the way home from work

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Oct 16, 2019, 3:12 AM UTC

fortran77 wrote: post #348

DoreenMichele wrote: post #316

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I turned in more than one lost wallet or debit card to a librarian (or similar) while homeless. I didn't want to call them myself or whatever because I was homeless and I knew I was automatically suspect as a thief because of it. So I wanted someone the world would trust/believe to deal with it. Well before I was homeless, attempts to return wallets or found ID cards or whatever were consistently met with suspicion.…

I am 56 years old. I have never found a wallet or a debit card except one I found a card in a restaurant where I just hand it to a server.

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Re: I just lost my wallet on the way home from work

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Post by xmprt » Wed, Oct 16, 2019, 3:17 AM UTC

DoreenMichele wrote: post #347

ALittleLight wrote: post #345

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You may want to consider the rates of homicide and rape in Mexico before determining that one person's experience of not being hurt is that compelling.

I'm a woman who was homeless for nearly six years. Homeless women also are at high risk of being raped, which is one of the reasons you see relatively few women on the street compared to men. I was never raped while on the street. I also have lived without a car for more than a decade and accepted many rides from strangers. None of those rides ended tragically either. I get told a lot I'm just lucky. It's a left-hand…

Are you claiming that women are in control of whether or not they get raped?

Re: I just lost my wallet on the way home from work

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Post by blunte » Wed, Oct 16, 2019, 3:20 AM UTC

Why does "acccount" have three Cs? Is that really production code screenshot?

Re: I just lost my wallet on the way home from work

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Post by blunte » Wed, Oct 16, 2019, 3:21 AM UTC

isp wrote: post #2

See also ancient bash.org lore: http://bash.org/?814243

When I see bash.org, my first thought is, "I put on my robe and wizard hat."

Re: I just lost my wallet on the way home from work

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Post by DoreenMichele » Wed, Oct 16, 2019, 3:24 AM UTC

xmprt wrote: post #353

DoreenMichele wrote: post #347

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm a woman who was homeless for nearly six years. Homeless women also are at high risk of being raped, which is one of the reasons you see relatively few women on the street compared to men. I was never raped while on the street. I also have lived without a car for more than a decade and accepted many rides from strangers. None of those rides ended tragically either. I get told a lot I'm just lucky. It's a left-hand…

Are you claiming that women are in control of whether or not they get raped?

I'm claiming that a long track record of success is probably not pure luck.

Occam's Razor.

One factor in me not being raped while homeless was that I was usually not alone. There is safety in numbers.

Re: I just lost my wallet on the way home from work

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Post by Trill-I-Am » Wed, Oct 16, 2019, 3:33 AM UTC

nullbyte wrote: post #225

epx wrote: post #122

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Sometimes it happens, and sometimes not. I lost my wallet 4 times in total, 3 in Brazil (which is $HOME), 1 in Germany. Got it back 3 out of 4 times. Guess where.

Are you sure you didn't lose your wallet 1 time in Brazil and 7 times in Germany?

What is the joke?

Re: I just lost my wallet on the way home from work

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Post by anonytrary » Wed, Oct 16, 2019, 3:33 AM UTC

When I was in grad school, I was 10 miles from home without a phone. I had been walking for miles, and eventually found a beat up old Galaxy-S3 on the road. I picked it up, turned it on, and it happened to still be logged into Facebook. So, I posted a new status on their Facebook account: "Hey, I found your phone -- give me a ride home if you want it back".

It worked. About a half hour later, I was sitting in their car, getting a ride home in exchange for the phone they lost, which I happened to find out in the middle of nowhere.

Re: I just lost my wallet on the way home from work

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Post by exolymph » Wed, Oct 16, 2019, 3:44 AM UTC

ericmcer wrote: post #300

lkrubner wrote: post #293

In terms of the kindness of strangers, I’m reminded of a friend who decided she wanted to hitch hike around Mexico when she was 18. She was poor but she wanted adventures. She wanted to get away from the beaten path, away from tourist traps, and go out into the rural areas so she could discover what Mexico was really like. Everyone who picked her up warned her that what she was doing was very dangerous. She was lucky…

I frequently walked home from work in Oakland at 1am when I worked a night shift. I always wore headphones too and people would tell me I was being stupid. After about a year and a half of this I was coming up a hill to a four way intersection when someone popped out from behind a fence just before I passed it, grabbed my shirt and stuck a gun in my stomach. He ended up being not the worst and let me keep my keys and…

> the consequences for her would probably have been much worse.

Are you assuming that the mugger you encountered would have raped her? (To be clear, I don't think that's a prima facie invalid assumption. It's a sincere object-level question.)

Re: I just lost my wallet on the way home from work

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Post by hermitdev » Wed, Oct 16, 2019, 3:47 AM UTC

fortran77 wrote: post #348

DoreenMichele wrote: post #316

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I turned in more than one lost wallet or debit card to a librarian (or similar) while homeless. I didn't want to call them myself or whatever because I was homeless and I knew I was automatically suspect as a thief because of it. So I wanted someone the world would trust/believe to deal with it. Well before I was homeless, attempts to return wallets or found ID cards or whatever were consistently met with suspicion.…

I am 56 years old. I have never found a wallet or a debit card except one I found a card in a restaurant where I just hand it to a server.

Ive both once lost and found a debit card in an ATM.

The one I found was left in a drive thru on a Saturday morning. The branch was open, so I walked in and dropped it off. I have no idea what the bank did after that.

I once left mine at an ATM, the bank cancelled the card and issued a new one before I even realized I'd left it behind.