F*&%#$@!

I was going to actually post about knitting since I have a FO to show you, but I'm too angry. Yesterday when we tried to buy pizza with our debit card, it was declined. Declined? We have plenty of money, run it again, we said. Nope, declined. I rushed to the internet to look up our account and...yep, someone stole our card number and spent ALL OF OUR MONEY. No, that doesn't cut it. Spent more money than we have because our bank gives us an additional $500 credit buffer on our account. Oh the fuckers!!!! I can't believe it. First, we don't go anywhere but the same old places and we don't use our card online*(paypal, baby), so how they got it is beyond me. But I know that they are sneaky little bastards and probably scanned the magnetic strip when we walked past them at the grocery store or some other crazy unbelievable shit like that. They had quite a spree as they toured the gas stations and Walgreens of southern Florida. There is no way to express in words the anger that I feel. Everything falls short. The worst is not being able to do anything yet because it's the weekend. We called and cancelled our cards, not that it helped because they had already spent everything, and now we wait until Monday to see what the bank is going to do. And of course, it's a Mastercard not a Visa, so that groovy little superhero commercial they play about getting all your money back doesn't help me. And, I wrote checks on Friday using the money I thought I had. Ugh, I'm a wreck.

Bring on the rice crispies treats.

*I don't think the internet is really all that dangerous anyways. Everything is on secure servers and buried in layers of encryption and damn hard to get to. In the real world, all somebody has to do is get a hold of your card number using some low tech device or technique and you're screwed. Hell, I can get the credit card number for every person that shops at my store just by clicking the right buttons (altough they have made it harder for clerks to do that lately). The world is full of dishonest people that will do anything to get the easy way out. And even if it's not "full", it doesn't take but a few to fuck the rest of us.