In October, our company spent some time re-designing our business cards because we have about five staff that needed updated cards. Our efforts resulted in more personalized cards, listing both our corporate contact info as well as some personal contact info. I was excited because this was going to be the first card which actually had my title of Audio Engineer, designed by a professional graphic artist!
For the Halloween weekend, I had planned a trip to Vancouver Island for both work and pleasure. I had been hired to master Children of Celebrities latest album, Stereo Bang Bang, and I also have a long-time friend who goes to UVIC. We spent our Halloween evening touring around Victoria in a limo, visiting several locations like beautiful views of the city cemeteries and beaches!
Later, we ended up at a Halloween dress-up party at a friends house. Half-way through the Halloween party, I realized that my wallet wasn’t in my pocket where it was supposed to be! I frantically searched through the entire house got all of my friends who were in the limo with me to check their bags and pockets. No matter where I looked I couldn’t find my wallet!
In the morning, I got a wake-up phone call on my cell from a officer who informed me that he had found my wallet the night before! When I showed up to the police station, they handed my wallet to me in a brown bag with my brand new business card stapled to the front. The officer informed me that the only reason they were able to contact me on my personal cell was because of the business cards that were inside my wallet!
The long and short of this story is I was ridiculously lucky to have a stack of my brand new business cards in my wallet to save my butt!
- Spencer Rieu, Audio Engineer at Techno Monkey Media.