my Harmon's cart overflowing with cold cereal.
Forty boxes to be exact.
And 10 boxes of crunchy granola bars
with 12 Chobani teetering precariously atop it all.
"Will that be debit or credit?" she asked as she slid my card.
"Debit."
and that's when it happened.
UNAUTHORIZED
"Will you try that again please? I think you may have hit the wrong button."
the same word slithered across the screen like a venomous reptile behind glass . . .
UNAUTHORIZED
There was a policeman standing behind me in line holding a banana and a yogurt. I glanced at him quickly to see if he was reaching for the handcuffs dangling from his belt loop.
"Here. Use this," I said handing her an American Express that has only seen the fluorescent lighting of my favorite big-box store.
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later on the phone with my financial firm:
"Your card activity has been labeled suspicious."
"Suspicious?"
"Yes ma'am. It shows here that you've made 2 transactions at such and such store in the past two days and 2 transactions at yada yada store and 3 transactions within hours of each other at the blah blah blah store . . ."
"Oh yes. I've been shopping for a youth group of 300. And one was for a prescription. And one was for gas. And . . . excuse, excuse, excuse"
But here's the truth of it.
I'm unorganized.
Criminally so.
3 comments:
I will come visit you in jail should you end up there. I'm sure you will look great in your orange jumpsuit.
Funny, same thing happened to me just the other week. So embarrasing, it's nice they block your account when it seems suspicious and all but quite an uncomfortable inconvenience. Mine was because Mark and Adam were on their 'mancation' and several transaction close together.
I thought you were going to write that the policeman paid for your food order. Good luck on Trek!--timo
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