Cosmic balance

[ksmith]

Good news of the day--routine mammogram All Clear.

Not so good news of the day--I was checking my bank balance, and found a few debits I didn't recognize. Small amounts, but still. I didn't recognize the company or the amounts. Cancelled the card. Will talk to the bank tomorrow. No other accounts touched.

last blasted thing I need right now...

Comments

[daveamongus.livejournal.com]

I'll go out on a limb here and propose that the goodness of the good news seems to outweigh the badness of the bad news--of the two, one would seem to be more easily reversible than the other, assuming you have a bank with the right policies.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Yes, I will admit that this is true.

But Writer Imagination (tm) runs rampant. I see accounts depleted to $0.00 and the FBI showing up at my door, asking about those AK-47s I tried to purchase.

But then, my WI was running rampant with the other thing, too.

[daveamongus.livejournal.com]

Isn't that WI a hell of a thing? So useful, and yet, so much the source of anxiety.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Stephen King wrote about it once, I *think* in Danse Macabre. He said that all parents have nightmares about their child being struck by a car. But he sees the car coming, feels the impact, and smells the blood.

There are times when you need it, and times that you don't. Makes you wish it came with a faucet.

[kateelliott.livejournal.com]

so true! (the Stephen King line about writers as parents)

one of the anthros at Jay's work deployed for the usual 6 weeks to some foreign clime (let's say Vietnam, as it likely was) and came home to find his bank account cleaned out. But the bank restored his money. I don't know if they ever found the crook. You're right to be paranoid on this count. We stopped using one of our credit cards and six months later charges showed up on it. Fortunately, we were able to get everything canceled.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

I hope it's a mistake. If it isn't, fingers crossed I caught it in time.

[affreca.livejournal.com]

I know I should track my account closer. I've caught my bank withdrawing $50 out of my account because somebody wrote an account number wrong on a withdrawal slip. Or the time they lost my $5000 deposit.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

I'm always checking mine because I keep forgetting to add the debit card transactions to my register. Several times a week is the norm.

[lmarley.livejournal.com]

Me, too! Unused card had charges showing up from Florida, where we've never been. I hear one way these guys do this is with tiny debits that the account owner tends to shrug off.

But as to WI--omigod. Every year I start sweating that particular exam in advance. It's enough to make you swear off doctors. (but not really)

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean -- I'm convinced that $500 is missing from the household account, but I can't find it in the records. (It's an e-account, which means the statements piling up were not the household account but another account of W's.) No hard copies...maybe I should change back to a paper trail account.

Congrats on the good news -- time for me to go get one, too.

[equesgal.livejournal.com]

I've found the same thing on my card at times, but it usually means that something I purchased on-line is owned by a bigger parent company or something and so that name appears on my statement. I hope that proves to be the case with you.

xx
fingers crossed

[pbray.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the good news, and here's hoping that the bank issue is speedily cleared up.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

I have to go file a police report. Then I give the report number to my bank, at which point I assume they will credit my account.

You never realize how much you use your ATM/debit card until you don't have it. Company credit unions don't exactly have branches *everywhere*.

[coalboy.livejournal.com]

Yay on the mammo, boohiss on the bank account.