I was a regular at a small local cafe for years, always getting the same order. One day, the owner handed me a stamped loyalty card and said, "This is your lifetime card. Just show this, and your black coffee is on the house." I was ecstatic. I put the card in my wallet for safekeeping. Later that day, I bought a new wallet and transferred everything over. You can guess where this is going. I threw the old wallet away. I realized my mistake an hour later, raced back to the trash, but it was already gone. I was too embarrassed to ever tell the owner. I still go there, and he sometimes asks, "Hey, where's your special card?" I just say, "Oh, I must have forgotten it at home."
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