Who Has Seen The Wind?
May. 12th, 2006 12:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
On my way to a choir executive meeting last night, I stopped at a gas station to get, y'know, gas. It was extremely windy and near the end of my debit-card-in-the-pump routine, my gas cap blew away. I had to chase it across the parking lot before it blew out onto the road. Apparently, my debit card transaction timed out while I was in hot pursuit and I didn't notice. I filled up my tank and went on my merry way.
I got home last night to a panicked message from my bank saying that there had been possible fraudulent activity involving my debit card and I was to go to a branch and get a new one as soon as possibleOMG! This morning, I had a phone call from the police informing me that I was guilty of 'gas drive-away' or, essentially, theft. Urk.
So, word to the wise: make sure your transaction goes through before leaving the gas station.
Off now to pay for said tank of gas and to calm my bank down.
I got home last night to a panicked message from my bank saying that there had been possible fraudulent activity involving my debit card and I was to go to a branch and get a new one as soon as possibleOMG! This morning, I had a phone call from the police informing me that I was guilty of 'gas drive-away' or, essentially, theft. Urk.
So, word to the wise: make sure your transaction goes through before leaving the gas station.
Off now to pay for said tank of gas and to calm my bank down.
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Date: 2006-05-12 04:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-12 05:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-12 05:29 pm (UTC)::bakes you cake with file in it to break you out of jail::
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Date: 2006-05-12 05:55 pm (UTC)::looks good in orange::
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Date: 2006-05-12 06:11 pm (UTC)hey at least you had an adventure yesterday!
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Date: 2006-05-12 06:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-12 09:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-12 10:54 pm (UTC)Either way, the police officer was quite polite about it - she didn't threaten to throw me in jail or anything. She said she'd close the file as soon as she heard that I'd paid.
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Date: 2006-05-12 10:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-12 10:56 pm (UTC)I'm just too cheap not to pump my own (suddenly I discover that there's no way to talk about getting gas without sounding rude). Unless it's -30C and then I go for the full servicing.
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Date: 2006-05-14 05:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-16 04:49 pm (UTC)I've missed you around these parts. How are you?!
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Date: 2006-05-16 08:33 pm (UTC)I'm good! Loving 24 and Doctor Who and just over 21,000 words into the novel... :-)