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Spalding Gray left the house with $120, wife reports.

I flicked the internet over on to that cnn.com site tonight and found a story about Spalding Gray being missing. This fact doesn't really strike me at all. except to remind me that Spalding Grey was doing some one-man, audience-participation show in Prospect Park back when I lived in Brooklyn, and that I wished I had seen it.

The strangest thing in the article to me was that it states:

"She [Gray's wife] said that Gray left with $120 in his pocket but was not carrying his wallet or credit cards."

I'm not married, so maybe I haven't been let in on all the secrets, but is it common for your wife to know how much money you have on you when you leave the house? I can understand her knowing that he didn't have his wallet and credit cards for she probably found those left at the house. But I can't ever recall anyone knowing how much cash I happened to have on hand since my mother sent me off to elementary school with lunch money. Then again, I had somewhat sticky fingers when I was young, so she probably didn't even know.

I now resign to always keep some odd amount of money on my person so no one, not even my wife (if I had one), ever really knows how much cheddar I'm holding.