Climatron: Personal Blog of Kyle Vandercamp

Feeling great at the checkout

You know when you go shopping at the supermarket, that tedium that we all feel, and you get heaps of shopping and you get to the checkout, and you just can’t wait to get out of there with your horde, and the nice person at the checkout is just trying to help you leave…. and then your debit visa fails on all three accounts. Ok, so you get your credit card out (the one that’s supposed to work regardless), and it fails. And you’re standing there, with eight people behind you looking like they need to leave as badly as you do, and there’s no cash in your wallet and… Dammit!

So I rang the bank and they told me I’d cancelled them yesterday. I cancelled my cards? Er, no I didn’t.

It’s Saturday. I can’t do anything about it, except order new cards and feel like someone’s trying to get at me.

Yours, cash-strapped and paranoid.