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

[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)