🚀 go-pugleaf

> if a wallet represents an egregious case of conspicuous consumption
> that you'd rather avoid, you might wrap the card a few times in
> paper - it's on the streets if the purchase is a hardship.

When I was a kid this was obvious; now that I'm older, for some reason
it isn't obvious, but I remember when I was a kid that it worked well
to wrap the pass in paper (for a time, I had no wallet and a thick
paper monthly bus pass for each month).

You know, I'm a bit pissed, actually; I grew up learning how to use
the thick paper farecard, both monthly and included-value, both
electronic and old fasioned (show the driver/conductor your pass).
Now, the other day, I was walking to the train stop with my Metrocard
(can you believe, I find it rare I have to use a token now?  And I go
*all* over) and when I got to the point where I had to actually fetch
the card out of my pocket before I get to the station, I couldn't find
it?  I had apparently dropped it someplace in the previous block since
I knew I had it one block previous.  The plastic is slipier than the
cardboard I'm used to.  Is it possible to get cardboard Metrocards?
How about copying the data from a plastic one to a cardboard one?  I'm
not interested in the one free fare that would make available (after
using one, the other should work once, but don't let them see you do
it since I'm sure the machine happily goes "beep" & lets you through,
then waits, then "bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz", you're in trouble),
but simply in being able to handle it better.