My boarding card convinced them that I should be on a flight and free newspapers galore made up for the pointless schlepping between gates.
They may be asked to ring the number on the back of their card, convincing them the call is genuine.
Probably not by the velvet-gloved mercantilists in Tokyo and Berlin, who will coolly assess his seriousness and fold their cards if convinced of it, but by Beijing.
I had the occasion to work with him three years ago on a New York campaign where I watched him use his BlackBerry and pocket calculator to run up the campaign tab, like with a million excess palm cards he convinced the candidate to order from... himself!
The unusual card, which Officer Rodriguez said resembled a hotel card key, convinced him that the men were doing something wrong.
Unable to secure a green card, and convinced that a TV documentary "could be worth 20 print articles", he returned to the UK to work on Yorkshire Television's First Tuesday strand before joining C4's education department.
The knockout blow was delayed when he played his MI6 card and convinced the jury, through the help of a mysterious Latin American witness, that he was assisting Mexico in anti-terrorism work and the drug smuggling was just a necessary cover.
But if the numbers do not justify his re-election, we should not allow anyone to play the race card to convince us to vote blindly.
"I voted for the first time in my life, to get a stamp on my polling card," he says, convinced that this civic gesture will help his application for rehousing.
I acquired 45 credit cards and $185,000 of credit card debt before I convinced Chase Manhattan Bank to lend me money to pay off the cards.
