Whatever you do… don’t give him a card.
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I FULLY expect to get pulled over by a Taiwan Police man, to hear him say, “May I see your card?” Then, after giving him my Drivers License, hearing him then say, “No, your Driver’s Club Card.” After explaining that I do not have such a thing, he will say, “Oh, that’s too bad. Now I will have to enter your information into the system by hand and you will not be eligible for the Traffic Ticket Discount until your next violation.”
Lord, save us from plastic and databases.
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“What church do you go to?” he asked. When I said that I was not bound to a building or a denomination, and that I only wanted to talk about the Bible and about Jesus he became even more serious. He pressed the issue. No answer I gave satisfied for the longest time.
He was asking to see my card.
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1 Sandy // Oct 30, 2007 at 6:41 am
Thanks for posting about Michael’s card story. He received several emails and comments about that. I shouldn’t but I laugh at him everytime we go to a store (like B&Q yesterday) and he has to look through all his hundreds of cards to find the right one. “I hate cards” he mumbles. hahaha
Even in the US, there are people who want to label us by the kind of church we attend. I used to attend a Christian women’s luncheon monthly and they had a rule that you couldn’t discuss church afflilation only God. One day a newbie came, and her first question to everyone was church affilation. I wondered why that was so important to her.
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