As a child, I sincerely believed that the word Chase on my dad's credit card was some sort of anti-theft device. I envisioned a thief trying to use the card to buy groceries, the cashier seeing Chase on it, and then the entire store's staff running the thief down. I really thought it meant 'chase this person down, they shouldn't have this.
Then I turned 17 and realized this was not the case, as my father would have been apprehended several hundred times by...
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