A Picture of Financial Health
It always strikes me as odd when people compliment my credit cards for being so pretty. I have about 32 credit cards, but two in particular have quite lovely Chicago cityscapes. I mean, they are stunning and all, but I can’t imagine why an underpaid cashier would either care to check out my credit card or tell me she likes it. Not like saying so means it will spit out extra money for her.
Mike, my roommate, has apparently gotten tired of the image of the Statue of Liberty on his Capital One card. (I know, what a terrorist liberal gay Nazi.) So he enlisted me for an important task at 1:30 a.m. – help him pick a new image for his card, because apparently Capital One allows you to just print off a new one with a new image whenever you like. (Absolutely no fact checking went into this post.)
The no-hassle bank lets you choose from among stock images – the typical images banks now make you use along with your password – or you can upload your own photos. Mike asked me to help him choose from among his nine favorite photos taken on his journeys throughout New York, Mexico, England, Africa and the rest of the world. We had narrowed it down to a nice picture in Central Park and one of the Western Wall and Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
But then we hit the treasure trove: Other random people’s pictures - strangers who have uploaded their personal photos to the Capital One site.
After all, who WOULDN’T want their plastic money coated with some random baby gurgling, dogs getting too close to the camera or couples – by now, probably ex couples – kissing each other? When I got over the giddiness of the discovery, I wondered – why would Capital One allow people to upload to some sort of public gallery? Is it possible someone in their right mind would do that, or did they just forget to uncheck some box? (One more question and Candace Bushnell will be calling me for royalties.)
It was here I found the perfect choice for Mike’s new card.
Unfortunately, he picked Jerusalem over some guy and his shitty car who may or may not be standing outside a public school or penitentiary.
Good news is one or two of my 32 credit cards has got to be Capital One.
