It was a stupid thing to do. I havn’t pulled out money for a while, and I guess I just forgot how to do it. I only figured it out when I went to the bookstore to buy the one Christmas present I’m going to be able to buy this year- a book for my mother.
I cancelled it, of course, and the only real hassle is that it’s going to take a week or so to get a new one. The big problem is that I am going to be stuck working 24 hours a day from Monday until the 26th except for a few hours on Christmas day. I really hope the grocery store will accept a non-local check so that I can buy food to last while I’m at work and I really hope Planned Parenthood will accept a check or that I can buy just one month’s worth of birth control pills (I’d be sad but willing to forgo sex for a month, but I’d rather give blow jobs on the street to earn money than deal with my terrible tipped uterus cramps) because I’ve only got ten dollars on me. I was hoping to make fudge for my family as christmas gifts…but I’m probably going to have to ask my boss for money and rely on delivery to make it through the week.
It was bound to be a lame Christmas anyway. I asked for no presents, just some cash to help me get out of this town and to a place where I can come up with a real job. But I was really looking forward to buying my mom a present she’d really enjoy to show her how much I appreciate all the help she’s given me in the last year.
Have you considered skipping the “automated” tellers and instead trying to withdraw cash from a “manual” teller? They’re inside the bank, often behind a counter.
(Worst case: Your bank doesn’t have a branch nearby, so you can’t speak to a human teller. In that case, right a check to yourself, and have it cashed at a check-cashing place. They’ll charge for it, but you will be able to get money…)
I was about to say this. Before I ever used an ATM, they had these things called TM’s, no wait, just T’s, and those things were tellers that gave you money from your bank account, and other such crazy things.
even sven, I predict this thread will not go well for you. In your last pity-me thread, you said you weren’t going to do this anymore, but here it is again. :rolleyes:
An insightful observation there my friend… living proof that, with hindsight, very few rants are genuinely worthy of the time they consume to read them.
Sadly, it’s not a “Family Credit Union” card, although the nice folks at the downtown office asked me the same thing. Talk about a small world.
The bank closed today at one, and I lost my card at two. It won’t open again until Monday. I’m not 100% sure when I have to show up at work on Monday, but with any luck I’ll be able to get at least some money before.
This happened to me once, except that the ATM swallowed my card and refused to let go of it…stranding me 50 kms away from the nearest branch of my bank…with no gas in my car…and no cash. I learned my lesson that day, always carry emergency money.
Most ATM’s retain cards that are left in them for a long time after the transaction ends (typically 90 seconds). They are pulled back into the machine, and deposited in a storage area inside. Next time the machine is serviced, the card will be delivered to the bank office, and they will call you or just mail the card to you at the address on your account.
So you’ll most likely get that cancelled card in your mail in a few days.
even sven, if you were in a car when you went to the ATM, check the car. Check every-freakin-where in the car. I thought I left the card in the ATM once. . .but then, six months later, I found it under the passenger seat of my car. Granted, I’m ditzier than the average bloke, but still, if you were in a car, it’s worth a shot.
Otherwise…well, a situation like this is the only reason I own a credit card. I don’t use it for day-to-day purchases, but at least I know that, should something happen to my debit card, I will have means by which I can survive. I also know that I have enough fiscal responsibility to not go hog-wild. You may want to look into getting one for this kind of thing…
I am not ranting about the my lack of a decent job, my perenial brokeness, the election of George Bush, or any of the previous things I’ve ranted about. I’m ranting that I walked blithely off without my ATM card on the one day in the single worst day of the year to do so- a post bank hours Saturday just before a period of being unable to interact with the outside world which happens to include a major money-spending holiday which I am already getting a short shift on. It’s my fault, it was a stupid thing to do, a stupid occurance in general, it adds another kink into the already convoluted Christmas plans that I had and I’m pretty grumpy about it.
Allow me to share a story about when ATM’s first came out. My father worked on the “Money Machine” prototype for a bank in Washington. They installed the first one at a branch just next to the computer center where the thing went through testing.
Several days later they found a VERY upset customer outside yelling, screaming and kicking at the machine.
“This goddamn robot took my card!”
After a few invalid password attempts, the “goddamn robot” ate his card.
It seems the ATM doesn’t offer cash from YOUR GAS CARD!
I did this too. Left my ATM card in the machine and walked away when the screen said, “Would you like to make another transaction? YES / NO” Well, I was done so I left. But the guy behind apparently couldn’t resist. I don’t remember the exact amount he withdrew from my account, but apparently it wasn’t enough because he then withdrew from his own account after he finished with mine.
Thanks to that idiotic decision and the camera, I did get my money back. But, boy, was I ever embarassed!
I think they’ve stopped doing that at ATMS now. The ones I’ve been to lately spit your card out after each transaction. I guess I wasn’t the only absent-minded moron that did that. :smack:
Your boyfriend can feed you until you get another card.
In as much as you have $15,000.00 in the bank, use it to buy some cans of food, and keep some pin money in your apartment for days when for whatever reason the bakning system is not available to you.
