For about a month now, I have been going round and round with the bank over my bank card. I got a message from my cell carrier around the beginning of July that the card I was using to pay my cell phone bill was about to expire. I called the bank to see why I had not recieved my new one and was informed that they had tried to send me a new one about a year ago because of something that happened when I used it at Taget. They sent it to the wrong address and it got returned. I didn't know about any of these things, and went right on using the card. Well when I called to ask about the card, they sent me a new one, and then cancelled the one I was using. It has been a month now and I have just gotten the card today. When I went in to talk to the bank, the lady told me all this happened because they thought that someone was trying to steal my identity because someone typed in the wrong birthdate on one of the screens.

The really scarey part of all of this is the fact that I actually had to go the bank to get money. I am embarrassed to admit this, but I had to ask the woman behind the counter how to do it. In my life the only thing I have done at the bank was put money in, and even that is rare since the school system directly deposits my check for me. I just go the atm on the rare occasion that I need to actually have cash is this credit card world.

The truth is, I am just relieved to be carrying my card again!

susan