Credit where credit isn't due
Aug. 23rd, 2004 10:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
robotech_masterWell, on Friday I did two things: one smart thing, one stupid thing. Perhaps they balance out, I don't know.
The smart thing: outside the Panera Bread shop, there were volunteers set up registering people to vote. I'd been worrying about getting registered, finding out where to do it, and so on—and suddenly I didn't have that worry anymore.
The stupid thing: I lost my debit card. Apparently while I was eating lunch at Schlotzky's Deli. I didn't notice the loss until after work heading home, and I thought I'd just left it in my other pair of pants. (Sometimes I'm too lazy to take my wallet out and stick the card back in, so I just stick it in the pocket next to the wallet and put it back in later. I thought that was what had happened here.)
I really didn't want to have to report the card missing and go through the rigamarole of getting a new credit card number and changing it in the half a zillion places I use it only to discover I'd just left it in my pocket when I got back to work on Monday, so I figured I'd wait 'til Monday morning to call it in. When I got to work today, I checked my pants but it wasn't there. What I should have done, I found out when I called it in today, was call them to put a hold on it until I could check it...as it looks like someone else did find the card and has been using it in places like self-service gas pumps.
Anyway, the credit card fraud people are going to lock down the card and refund the fraudulent uses, so I guess no harm done in the end. Still, it's annoying to lose the thing. I guess I'm going to be eating a lot at Sonic off of my "real" credit card until I get my new debit card.
The smart thing: outside the Panera Bread shop, there were volunteers set up registering people to vote. I'd been worrying about getting registered, finding out where to do it, and so on—and suddenly I didn't have that worry anymore.
The stupid thing: I lost my debit card. Apparently while I was eating lunch at Schlotzky's Deli. I didn't notice the loss until after work heading home, and I thought I'd just left it in my other pair of pants. (Sometimes I'm too lazy to take my wallet out and stick the card back in, so I just stick it in the pocket next to the wallet and put it back in later. I thought that was what had happened here.)
I really didn't want to have to report the card missing and go through the rigamarole of getting a new credit card number and changing it in the half a zillion places I use it only to discover I'd just left it in my pocket when I got back to work on Monday, so I figured I'd wait 'til Monday morning to call it in. When I got to work today, I checked my pants but it wasn't there. What I should have done, I found out when I called it in today, was call them to put a hold on it until I could check it...as it looks like someone else did find the card and has been using it in places like self-service gas pumps.
Anyway, the credit card fraud people are going to lock down the card and refund the fraudulent uses, so I guess no harm done in the end. Still, it's annoying to lose the thing. I guess I'm going to be eating a lot at Sonic off of my "real" credit card until I get my new debit card.
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Date: 2004-08-23 08:34 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-08-23 12:37 pm (UTC)Isn't there supposed to be a PIN that they have to know to use it? Or was it being processed as a VISA request?