Combination of needing to beat bad weather and bad memory turned this into an “Ugh!” day.
OK it started out with looking at the weather forecast and deciding if I wanted to get my phone paid for before it got shut down I needed to do it today. But after buying a bus pass on my phone and activating it so it had to be used today (Thursday 2021-02-25) or lost forever.
For some reason I keep forgetting to bring my mask when I leave the house by myself, which means I can’t ride the bus. I realized this before I got to the bus so I had time to go home and catch the next bus but not before the rain hit. That’s when I rediscovered that the rain hood was designed to work with a brimmed hat like a baseball cap or similar, because the hood would droop until my face was covered while my mask rose until it covered my eyes. I could do something about the mask because I was used to dealing with rising mask syndrome from everyday use. But the hood covering my face at the same time at a faster rate than the mask crept up threw me off. I finally decided to just let my head get wet rather than constantly fidget with the hood and the mask.
Then I got to the phone store and did the thing with the new debit card. I was all tired out when I got there because I walked as fast as I could which actually uses more energy than running but is still slower than running because I can’t run. Seriously if I could have run I would have, but I haven’t been able to run since the wreck. But I did the thing with the new debit card, so “Yay!” for me.
I managed to get to the bus stop by the phone store in time to catch the next bus, which was good because by this time my head was soaked. I managed to get home without problems that I was already dealing with getting any worse. I even managed to get my step tracker and fitness tracker working for the trip from the bus stop to the house.
When I got home things got weird. I had been carrying around my phone in the pocket of the raincoat and when I took my phone out there was something else in the pocket, my old debit card that I lost. I wouldn’t have had to report the missing card if I had checked the pocket of the raincoat, which would have prevented having to “borrow” Mrs. the Poet’s card to pay a couple of online payments that came due before the new card came in.
So, that was my day Thursday. How was your day?
Witch on a Bicycle 
Why couldn’t you just called up the phone store and pay them with the
debit card number over the phone?
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I haven’t activated that because I never have access to my card when I think about it, and I never think about it when I have access to my card to activate autopay.
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I’m not talking about autopay. Most places that takes debit or
credit cards will also allow you to read the number on that card
to them over the phone. All my orders from the internet is done
over the phone. If I can’t talk to someone I don’t buy from them.
I only keep about $20 in my account that has the debit card.
When I want to buy something I will then add that amount to the
account. Since I am a senior I don’t get charge anything for the
extra bank account.
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