Mrs. Paco recently got a credit card replaced, and she was trying to destroy the old one but ran into difficulties. In the past, it was no problem to cut a card up with scissors, or even break it up with your hands. Now, she was having to use some kind of metal-cutting shears to destroy the card.
We were both wondering why the card was made of metal, assuming that maybe it was some kind of security thing; however, according to Google, credit cards are made from metal for the purpose of ...conferring prestige. Apparently, the increased weight of the card (which I never noticed) suggests greater intrinsic value than mere plastic.
So, here Mrs. Paco was, all these months, carrying around a card, but, not knowing any better, she was deprived of the awareness that she was somebody, distinct from the hoi polloi and their plebeian plastic cards. Such a waste.
Seriously, does anybody know of another reason some credit cards are made from metal? This just sounds too stupid to be true.
Huh. I have had a bunch of credit cards over the years (currently three active, which I had thought was one more than I needed but recently my credit monitoring program tells me is actually two fewer than it typical for my age and income level). All have been plastic,,, even back when I had a "gold" card.
ReplyDeleteAnd whenever I got a replacement card I used to cut the old one into five slices and make a game of disposing each piece in a different location. I'd carry a piece in my pocket for a few days until I was in a location deemed suitably remote to drop into a can somewhere.
You know, just in case "they" were following me in order to recover every piece so they could reconstitute my expired credit card for, uh... for nefarious purposes. Which purposes, you ask? How the hell should I know, I am not nefarious!
Not only are all my cards plastic, I wouldn't be surprised if they were made of recycled plastic.
ReplyDeleteMaybe the metal, like the plastic, is recycled.
DeleteToo stupid to be true?
ReplyDeleteNo such thing anymore.
Where have you been?
I will say I don't destroy old cards, why bother?
Let some fool try to use a dead card.
Of course, my experience might be different as, since I use my CC online, once a year or so I "lose" my old card and get a new one with a different number, not just the same number with a new expiration date.
Hmm, I've never run across a metal credit card, not even with all the ones we've had over the years. I guess we weren't somebodies.
ReplyDeleteThis is a first for me. But maybe it's above my grade. I used to have a platinum card, but it wasn't made of platinum. I feel gypped.
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