While living in San Diego, dad still had to go out to sea on a regular basis. This was not that much of a problem cause mom could get to the commissary for groceries and stuff but for household items they liked to shop at Sears. They lived quite a ways from the closest Sear store so taking the bus was how mom would get there while dad was gone, since she couldn't drive.
Dad left the Sears charge card with mom while he was gone so she could pick up necessary household things if she had to. She also was given the job of making the monthly payments on that card so she knew exactly how much was on it. That was all she knew about credit cards at that time. You go shopping, use the card instead of money and you paid the bill. Seems like that is all you really need to know about them, huh? Well you're wrong. You also need to know that if you pay the card off that they don't take the card away.
Every time the card was about to be paid off my mom would get on that bus and ride an hour to Sears and buy something. ANYTHING. Because she did not want them to take the card away. We had, what could have been the world's largest collection of sheets and towels ever. I don't think they had to buy new ones until after we moved to Connecticut.
Next time - San Diego gets a new resident
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