I forgot my wallet on a business trip — here is what I’m going to do differently

The title says it all doesn’t it — forgetting your wallet is maybe even worse than losing it or getting it stolen — it was right there in your home and you could have taken it but for some reason or another, you forget to bring it along with you! Well, it happened to me and the moment that I realized I had forgotten it, I panicked a little bit.

It just so happened that instead of going to the hotel that I usually go to (and more importantly, that I have a very good status with), I was going to a hotel that I have been to but rarely go — it’s more expensive and it’s farther away than other hotels. I’ll come back to the status later but essentially with any hotel, you need ID and you need a credit card to check in — I had neither.

Luckily, the hotel I was staying at managed to check me in through a third party authorization form — someone fills out a form with a picture of their ID and a picture of their credit card and their card is charged while you get your card. The one thing I didn’t really understand is why a third party is able to do that and why you aren’t able to just fill it out with your own information — I could have gotten a picture of my ID and a picture of my credit card and then I wouldn’t have to go through a third party …but I digress.