On Wednesday, January 1, 2003, at 07:34 PM, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
Its very common, if the person in front of you hasn't a card, to loan your card (to a total stranger! gasp!) when you them without. I've also noticed that the checkers now keep a working card to use in these situations.
I picked up a stack at Safeway a few days ago (just go to any cash register lane that isn't open. Usually the stack of blank cards (and sometimes the forms) is next to the register. Just reach over and grab a pile.
None of these are registered in any way to oneself.
Of course, for grins, one can fill out the forms with various seditious names, including the store's manager's name. Deposit the form, put the cards back where people will find them and think "Cool, I'll just use this card, sitting here next to the Lifesavers and pens."
(Same kind of hack as modifying counter deposit slips with either random magnetic digits or, more dangerously, with one's own deposit number.)
--Tim May
"The Constitution is a radical document...it is the job of the government to rein in people's rights." --President William J. Clinton
