This email showed up in my inbox yesterday.

I am a self-diagnosed workaholic, which means I actually like working, and being at work. So the idea of a 0-hour workweek scares me a little because I can't imagine working zero hours a week, but being able to earn money somehow.

Tyler Coates often uses his expired grad school ID to save money, because he is smart and thrifty (“I have no shame, because I also don’t have a lot of money”). (He is not alone!)

While in line to buy play tickets this weekend, he encountered an old-student-ID-user’s worst nightmare—a ticket clerk who actually cares about rules and regulations, ugh. Tyler made it out alive with student tickets in hand(no expiration date on his ID, so lucky ) but a woman in front of him was REJECTED.

I lost my student ID many years ago, but I would never have ever used it to for EXACTLY THIS REASON, even though this is the first time I’ve ever heard of this happening, ever ever ever. Ever.

On my home from the office last night, a kid, about 10 years old or so, got on my subway car and announced that he was selling packages of cookies for a dollar to raise money to buy school supplies. I've heard this song and dance before, of course: A kid gets on the subway car and announces that he or she is selling M&Ms for his or her basketball team, or so that he or she can stay off the street and go to college. It's an easy story to fall for if you haven't already heard it a million times, which I have, and why I've come to train myself to ignore the announcement, burying my head into my book, or whatever I'm reading on my phone.