Accidental crime...

[ChinChinDarlings]

NC, because I have become an inadvertent criminal.

This sounds unlikely but it true and I would like some advice and insight.

I was out today with a friend, lunch, galleries, bit of shopping. Tapping away merrily with my card.

My husband met me at the station to pick me up and I said I needed to go to the supermarket to get something and he asked what I'd been paying with all day because he had my card in his pocket.

We'd been away at the weekend and he'd been using my card because that was the card we had on us, I have a premium banking product and my card is very distinctive. I'd checked that I had my card in my holder before I went out today because I knew We'd both been using it at the weekend. Saw it was in my holder and have been tapping away all day.

The card I had in my holder and have been merrily using all day, is not my card. It belongs to a man I've never heard of. The only solution I can see is that I picked his identical card up that he left on a table and I assumed it was my card.

I have been spending a stranger's money all day. Shall I just phone the bank? Won't I look like a criminal?

TL;DR. I have accidentally spent some blokes money all day. I don't know what to do!

What!

That is ver' funny.

The lack of imagination!

You wouldn't have given back money you realised wasn't yours to spend? Presumably it's the realising you'd made the mistake that makes a crime.

Great news!

I'm abso-fucking-lutely not.

But then, why were you up until all hours posting on MN about this? Surely you have sleep to attend to? I mean there's no bloody way I'm on MN past midnight, unless I can't sleep for worrying about something...

I've found this depressing as the OP's attitude right from the start has been "I am frightfully amusing, yah?"

Rally?

I don't understand why you didn't call the bank right away? Posting on here about the situation all night rather than making the call there and then makes it all seem a bit more doge than you're worried about!

OP has the rudeness and cheek (chutzpah) to be a surgeon. But not the intelligence levels.

The fact they weren't open was a massive inhibitor.

@Ginnnny OP also states that was the intention all along - to call in the morning.

OP, are you alright? You’ve been up all night and are being quite confrontational and waiting for posts so you can pounce. It’s bizarre.

Most banks (even the premium ones) have 24 hour phone lines.

But to be fair to you, I probably would've left it til daylight too.

That is nonsensical, you must know that?

It is very strange, why has she been up all night? If I ever pulled an all nighter I'd be knackered.

What business is it of yours? The OP has not shared any information about her life or why she's awake.

As usual with posters like you having nothing to contribute to the actual thread is to deflect to issues that are none of your business.

It is not nonsensical as it applies to you, well at least from my POV.

As my New Yorker friend would say, you've been a bit snarky this morning.

@Alondra are you OPs alter ego?

I went on a school coach trip to Italy in the mid 1990s and the lead teacher got all the way to Rome (four days and several borders in) before discovering she had been travelling on her husband’s passport. She had to get hers couriered over!

@Betterbuckleupbarbara I guess many other worrying about being "dodge" as OP was, would call right away - even premium banks have 24 hour phone lines!

Wasn't just me concerned about the OP's sleep or lack of it. I couldn't give a flying fuck if she slept or not.

But not sleeping well and posting on the internet, it's bound to affect one's mood, I find. Especially if you're a bit stressed about something.

LOL, I doubt it.

But on the other hand, who knows? 😎

@Ginnnny absolutely and the lost / stolen / fraud line on any account is 24/7 so makes no sense at all unless this is a wind up

@Alondra hah hah 😄

No it doesn't. I am rarely asked for a pin.

NC for this as my daughters are on here and they will INSTANTLY recognise me (hello girls!)

Whilst living in Germany some years ago we visited a huge garden centre in December as was our tradition to purchase our tree and other wonderful German Christmas decorations.

I'd filled my huge trolley and the tree was underneath wrapped in netting. It was about 7' tall so not insignificant! The way it worked was you got given a ticket to hand in to the check out on exit - I'd put this in my pocket and merrily gone around the centre loading my trolley. I spent LOT of euro!

We loaded the car and started driving off. My girls said, mum did you give the tree ticket?

Oops! No I hadn't 🤦‍♀️ I'd walked out with a 7' tree 🤦‍♀️

Thank you.

I've had very odd sleep-patterns since I was a child. It's always been commented on as though it was somehow a moral failing.

I never understood why.

Anyhoo, we're not here for that.

However, now the villinary has been settled, we can talk sleep, or lack of.