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September 2, 2006
What a TRAUMATIC afternoon!
So I head to the gym at 1.30, planning to see the field hockey game (match? tourney?) that one of my first year advisees has invited me to. I walk in the front door and pull out my i.d. to run it through the scanner and realize that my debit card is gone. My panic is mild, becausse I know where I used it last. On a whim yesterday - such a lovely day! and I knew the weekend would be a weather misery - I rode my bicycle to the marina and back. I stopped at the lakefront hotel and ate lunch on the waterfront and payed by debit card (since I had $2 in my wallet).
So, at the fieldhouse I ask for a phone book and call the hotel. They don't have my card. Despair! I head home to check. It's not in a pocket of yesterday's shorts or in the laundry basket. I pull out the phone book to call the bank (the branches are of course closed already - it's Saturday afternoon!) and decide to call the hotel back. This time I get a manager, and he tells me that the General Manager has my card in the safe. Of course the GM is off today - I have to wait half an hour for him to come in and open the safe. Still, my card is safe! I don't have to cancel it (and reset all the things billed to it, like Netflix and Audible and, and, and...). Yay!
So I go get my card. On the way home I notice that the local bar y grille has one of my favorite sandwiches as the Saturday special (beef brisket - yum!) so I stop to celebrate. And my debit card (I still have $2) fails to go through. So I walk home briskly, get a $20 out of the vacation fund, head back, pay my bill, and walk down hill to the ATM at my bank's main branch. I withdraw $200 without problem and the balance is where I expect it to be.
So what was that about? Just another jab from fate? A reminder to have a cash account with 6 months of expenses just in case? Argh! I certainly don't need any cardio anymore - my heartrate is quite stimulated enough, thank you very much.
Posted by CrankyProfessor at September 2, 2006 3:53 PM