Gift Card Expiration Date Pressure

Gift-card-expiration-date-pressure is one of the worst kinds of pressure known to mankind. Realizing you have something exciting that can be taken away on a certain date is an injustice at the highest level of all forms of injustice. It’s like an execution date. You know the date will eventually arrive and there is nothing you can do about it.

My cheater ex-boyfriend with a double life told me a long time ago that buying a gift card is like a contract. If you pay for a gift card, then people have to honor it. Since he cheated on me with a terry-cloth-wearing Hooter’s girl, I’m going to go out on a limb and say he isn’t very smart, which means paying attention to the expiration date on all gift cards is important.

After bidding on a “Night Out in Dallas” at the Caesar Salad Competition last year, we actually won. Five minutes ago my husband let out some kind of gasp and said, “Go check the expiration dates! Everything has probably expired!” Stress entered my life at that very moment as I ran upstairs to investigate. We quickly decided today is the day to do it. Our winning bid includes a night at the Rosewood Mansion, dinner for two at Stephan Pyles, a Sewell Lexus for the weekend, and seats at the Symphony Orchestra. We are OK on everything except the Dallas Symphony, which expired YESTERDAY. Thanks. Thanks a lot. Now I have gift-card-expiration-date-depression.

Now that we are forced to have a lavish weekend, I have no choice but to parade around in public with six stitches and a big, greenish-blue— black eye. It’s not my fault the water was rough on Memorial Day Weekend and I smashed my face into the front of the boat. Things like this happen. It doesn’t mean anyone wants to sashay into the Rosewood Mansion and then dinner at Stephan Pyles looking like some kind of thug. Sometimes gift-card-expiration-date-pressure means innocent citizens of the United States of America have no choice but to showcase a jacked-up face. True story.

After countless minutes of research, I uncovered shocking gift-card-expiration-date information that just might be accurate. As of August 2010, it is illegal for a gift card to expire within five years of the actual issue date. There is an exception that really hurts my feelings. Paper gift certificates are not included. Our Dallas Symphony seats are on a paper gift certificate. The paper gift certificate is dated September 30, 2012 and expired May 31, 2013. This is a catastrophe to symphony lovers everywhere. Paper gift certificates are as sad as littering in a cemetery. After deep meditation, I’ve decided the symphony can go on without us. There will be no hard feelings of paper gift certificate negativity. We will focus on a future without gift cards as we enjoy a lovely– Night Out in Dallas.

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