Last week Bob Mayne of the Handgun World Podcast and I got together for lunch. We talked about our upcoming classes, shooting matches, and life in general. When we were about to leave a man sat down by himself at the table next to us. He started counting out $20 bills onto the table. I didn’t want to stare and count, but he put between $500 and $1,000 on the table. Then picked it up and counted it again. I told Bob he looks like he is trying to get robbed.
We all do stuff like this. When people are on their cell phones they think no one else can hear them, but everyone just learned about uncle Buck’s bypass. We will also discuss things between friends that are not for public knowledge in crowded restaurants thinking no one else can hear.
We need to be more careful with our money. $1,000 cash is a great score for a robber. Most convenience stores have less then $200 in the cash register, and people rob them all the time.
Carrying large amounts of money is sometime necessary in our lives but we should be mindful of flashing anything that looks like more that $100. The easiest way to carry large amounts of money is to put it in different pockets. I normally carry an emergency $100 bill in my wallet but you will never see it. I only spend out of the money in my money clip. When I was traveling overseas as a contractor I always had $2,000 or $3,000 cash on me. That was my emergency money. I kept it in three different places on my body. Some behind my passport in the holder (front shirt pocket), some in a wallet (front left pocket), and some with my military/contractor/work ID in an ID holder (around my neck under my shirt). My spending money was in another pocket. Anytime I bought something the spending money came out. If I needed more spending money out of my emergency money I would go to a private place to get some out and put it with my spending money.
If I ever got robbed I would simply give up whatever they asked for, and then would have enough money and IDs to get home. Anytime you have to carry anything larger then a $100 think about splitting it up into different pockets. It could save you a lot of money and headache.
Stay Safe,
Ben