The Missing Credit Card

We’ve already changed our credit card number once this year due to suspicious activity. It’s a royal pain even though Helaine now has a list of those who automatically charges our account.

My journey to-and-from FoxCT has moved to the reliable pattern stage. I know where stuff is! When the gas gauge light came on while driving home I pulled off I91 and onto Silas Dean Highway. There’s Bluetooth in the Subaru Forester I’m driving, so my friend Harvey heard, “S**t,” as I opened my wallet and noticed what was missing, my credit card!

Helaine does most of the spending in our family. I pull out the card once or twice a week. As best I could remember I’d pulled the card out, but hadn’t used it, last Thursday at Subway.

I got home, wrote the note you see attached to this blog post, and started to think about the loss of a credit card.

We’ve already changed our credit card number once this year due to suspicious activity. It’s a royal pain even though Helaine now has a list of those who automatically charges our account.

When I briefly woke up earlier this morning I told Helaine. She reminded me it was actually Saturday when I last used the card across from the movie theater in New Haven.

A few minutes later she was on the line to the Atlas Diner.

“I wasn’t here then, but I think someone said someone had left something.”

Then the voice on the other end asked Helaine what kind of card and whose name was on it.

My Southwest Airlines Visa is back home now no worse for wear. It was cold and lonely and forced to spend the night in a dark cash register. Pain in the butt avoided!

“Maybe you should play the lottery today,” Helaine added.

I was pretty lucky.

8 thoughts on “The Missing Credit Card”

  1. You are very lucky. That’s real credit to the Atlas Diner. See there are honest people out there. My faith in humanity has been restored.
    My card was misplaced at a toy store in east haven and I had 5 gas fillups and $3000 worth of items charged to it. The funny thing about this (if there is anything funny) was the casher that took it was previously employed at the same toy store in Milford and fired there. His did she ever get a job in the same chain of stores?

    1. I agree with you Bob,
      I’ve never been to that diner but after hearing how honest they are, think I’ll stop in.
      Hope Geoff tipped them well…….

  2. First thing to do after card swipe is to put it back in pocket,then sign the receipt.
    Otherwise there will be half dozen of Geoff’s outside. Identity theft.

  3. Glad to hear you avoided a ‘crisis’, Geoff. I think most people are honest, but if you cross paths with that one bad apple, you’re screwed. My son used his debit card in Delaney’s Tap Room on Whalley Avenue in Westville, and the bartender accidently handed him back someone else’s card; it was the same bank – identical looking card – and my son didn’t notice. It was only about 5 days later when he tried to buy something online that he noticed the numbers were different. He contacted Delaney’s, and to their credit, they had held the card safely in a manager’s office all that time in hopes my son would return for it.

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