When you think of a wallet, what are some uses that come to mind? Storing credit cards? Money? Maybe keeping some pictures in there? These are all common uses, however I have a new one to suggest: Projector stand. Yeah, it sounds crazy, but it happened to me today.

I had a 3:00 meeting, which was ok because it’s close enough to the end of the day to make a nice time filler, but not close enough where I could possibly have to stay later to finish it. As we start the meeting, a few people’s attention start to wander. Out of nowhere, the guy next to me says “Is that a wallet under that projector?” Of course, the entire meeting grinds to a halt since this question was much more interesting than whatever we were talking about (something about save the cheerleader, save the world). Lo and behold, there was a wallet propping up the projector. Some guy had opened his wallet and spread it out so he could make the projector higher.

I couldn’t believe it! While an interesting idea, who even thinks of that? Also, how does he just leave it there? Even funnier was that the wallet had to have been there all day, as we were the first meeting in there since the early morning. As a guy, I consider my wallet to be surgically attached to me. I can’t imagine just leaving it somewhere for the entire day. It would feel like leaving an arm at home. Lucky for this guy we turned it in, however anybody could have walked by and just scooped it up during the day. I think the lesson here is pretty simple: Your wallet, while versatile, is not to be used as a projector stand. Just suck it up and go grab a book.