I always buy stuff for dinner at work. I guess it’s easy when you work at a grocery store. So a couple of days ago I grab a couple of my cheap and easy favorites-salad, a bottle of flavored water, and I figure I’ll try some apple cinnamon snack cakes-and take my things to the register, debit card in hand. I swipe my card and to my horror, it says that my card is declined. I try again. Declined. I try as credit. Declined. That’s weird, I think to myself. I can see debit getting declined because maybe I put my pin in wrong a few times and it stopped letting me use it. But credit? Credit should’ve worked. So I’m all pissed off and embarassed and a friend of mine offers to pay for dinner and I feel like an idiot and everything.
I called my bank yesterday and find out that they cancelled my card. There have been a few things in the news about a competitive grocery store and how their employees were hacking into customers’ credit cards so even though the last time I used my card at this grocery store was in February, they cancelled my card and I had no idea. They offered to send me a new card which I’ll get in 5-7 days. The problem? I go on vacation on Wednesday.
Yep, I’m going to Massassachusetts on Wednesday for 5 days and I won’t have Little Debbie with me. The horror. The reason why I like Little Debbie is because it makes me think about if what I’m buying is worth it. If I have cash on me, I’ll just look in my wallet and think “Hey, I have the money. Let me spend it!”. So now I’m all upset that I have to use cash on this trip but I figure, hey, I got paid on Thursday so I’ll just cash my check. That means I won’t be taking any money out of my bank account so I won’t have to worry about spending more than I want to. Well, my paycheck is for just under what I wanted to spend on the trip “just to be safe”. So now I have to take another $100 out of my bank account AND I have to try not to spend any of the cash on anything besides the trip which is hard considering my only other form of payment is a check. I still have to pay back the friend that paid for my dinner that day. I also have to buy three cards, a few giftbags and tissue paper, and flowers for my mom for mother’s day.
All this just to say that cash makes my anxiety worse and I can’t wait until my vacation starts so I don’t have to worry about what I’m going to do for money while I’m at home.
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