And the giggles just keep on coming
Part of me wishes that I'd stayed home this afternoon and avoided the drama, but the other part of me is glad I went out.
First off, the dashboard of my car was lit up like a Christmas tree. There was the emergency brake light which is OK. I have a stick shift so the loss of the EB isn't totally critical right now. Then there was the 'service engine soon' light. It's happened before and if I give it a little time the engine (even as old as it is with 100,000+ miles) usually figures out what's up and fixes it. It did this time, too. But there was that 30 min or so of driving around waiting for it to go off that left me anxious.
Then I went up to the store. I stopped by the Red Box outside and was going to rent Unstoppable and maybe Tangled if they had it. they had the first but the box wouldn't take my debit card - Unable to Process transaction'. OK, so the box is broken.
I went into the grocery store and when I tried to use my deb it card there the shitty little machine said 'Unable to Process - Account Closed'.
WTF!?
So my next stop was my bank. This is one of the perks of having days off in the middle of the week instead of the weekend.
It took me a little while to see someone who told me that my account had been closed because my online account had been compromised. Then I had to wait a little while longer top be able to see someone who could do something about it. But in the meantime I was able to ascertain that my rent check had already cleared and that the balance was about what it should be. *headdesk* So relieved.
When I got to see someone he called the security division, talked to him for awhile and then let me talk to me. It seems that last Monday someone using a terminal at the University of Missouri had accessed my online account but didn't have a key piece of information to actually access the money. Not that s/he wouldn't have laughed their self silly when they saw the balance. So the nice gentleman on the phone gave me a couple of phone numbers to call to report possible fraud so that it would be flagged on my credit information. Then the man at the bank closed the old account, transferred everything to the new one, gave me a temporary debit card and a filled out form to transfer over my direct deposit at work. All in all it was relatively painless. There was just that gut-wrenching 45 min or so between the time I found out something was wrong with my banking account and finding out it was fixable.
I am so freaking sick of drama. I just want to be left alone for awhile. Is that too much to ask? I'm not setting foot out of my apartment tomorrow. Then I'll just have 4 work days and then 2 more days off when hopefully I can get some stuff done.
First off, the dashboard of my car was lit up like a Christmas tree. There was the emergency brake light which is OK. I have a stick shift so the loss of the EB isn't totally critical right now. Then there was the 'service engine soon' light. It's happened before and if I give it a little time the engine (even as old as it is with 100,000+ miles) usually figures out what's up and fixes it. It did this time, too. But there was that 30 min or so of driving around waiting for it to go off that left me anxious.
Then I went up to the store. I stopped by the Red Box outside and was going to rent Unstoppable and maybe Tangled if they had it. they had the first but the box wouldn't take my debit card - Unable to Process transaction'. OK, so the box is broken.
I went into the grocery store and when I tried to use my deb it card there the shitty little machine said 'Unable to Process - Account Closed'.
WTF!?
So my next stop was my bank. This is one of the perks of having days off in the middle of the week instead of the weekend.
It took me a little while to see someone who told me that my account had been closed because my online account had been compromised. Then I had to wait a little while longer top be able to see someone who could do something about it. But in the meantime I was able to ascertain that my rent check had already cleared and that the balance was about what it should be. *headdesk* So relieved.
When I got to see someone he called the security division, talked to him for awhile and then let me talk to me. It seems that last Monday someone using a terminal at the University of Missouri had accessed my online account but didn't have a key piece of information to actually access the money. Not that s/he wouldn't have laughed their self silly when they saw the balance. So the nice gentleman on the phone gave me a couple of phone numbers to call to report possible fraud so that it would be flagged on my credit information. Then the man at the bank closed the old account, transferred everything to the new one, gave me a temporary debit card and a filled out form to transfer over my direct deposit at work. All in all it was relatively painless. There was just that gut-wrenching 45 min or so between the time I found out something was wrong with my banking account and finding out it was fixable.
I am so freaking sick of drama. I just want to be left alone for awhile. Is that too much to ask? I'm not setting foot out of my apartment tomorrow. Then I'll just have 4 work days and then 2 more days off when hopefully I can get some stuff done.