AIBU to be cross with myself for being so bloody stupid!

[Janos]

I've had a lovely wee break visiting my folks with DS.

Today as we were on our way back at the train station. I decided to get some money out to pay for a taxi back, plus cover food shopping for the rest of the week (don't need too much as DS is away with his Dad for a long w/e, it's just me and him. I was really tired (bad night), stressed and distracted.

Fast forward to checking our tickets on the train. I open up my purse and the money isn't there.

I had taken the money out but forgot to pick it up from the cash machine. £30.00. So basically I have lost 30 quid down to my own basic idiocy.

Grrrr!

tell me where you were again....

Did you leave it cash machine?

If so and no-one nicked it it will be sucked back in and re-credited to your account, takes a while though.

Was there anyone near you when you at the cash machine? You might be lucky and find that the machine took the money back when you didn't take it.

If you contact the bank, I think the machines retract the money after a certain length of time. So if no-one spotted it, you might be lucky and get it back.

If you ring the branch you might be surprised. Apparently, if the money isn't removed after 30 secs or so the machine takes it back. So, if there wasn't an arsehole anyone behind you, you might be lucky.

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call your own bank in the morning and report that you did not pick up the money - most- if not all- machines will suck back the money and it goes in to a divert box- the other bank will count the machine and if there is a surplus you will get it back- however it is possible that some one may have used the machine just after you and taken it - but it is worth a try - i work for a bank and this happens a lot and customers wil get the money back if it has been sucked back in - good luck!

AF - Newcastle Train Station.

Didn't realise I could do that everyone, thank you for the tip! I will contact the bank and explain. I can remember the time, where and which cash point I used.

There wasn't anyone behind me, no queue (I don't think) so fingers crossed.

Is it too late to get on a train to Newcastle ?

Taking the money from the machine is stealing and you can get the police involved - they may have CCTV and if the next person THEN used their card they can trace them. This happened to a friend of mine and they arrested, charged and prosecuted the person who took the money (she was found guilty). Sadly my friend didn't get the money back but she got a certain amount of satisfaction at the verdict.

as a lovely brazillian man at the gym said to me once when I was berating myself for being stupid after a silly mistake, "You made a mistake, everyone does. It's OK and you are not stupid."

Twas the way he said it - so sincerely. I had never heard anything like it - I wanted to kiss him ;)

It might not be the next person who used the machine though. DS1 noticed some money sticking out of a machine as he was walking past. He took it into the bank though... I brought him up well.

You were stressed and distracted - don't be too hard on yourself, everybody makes mistakes. At least you didn't leave your card somewhere - that would've been much worse.

Hope you get your money back.

Where's a nice Brazilian man when you need one, eh? Hope you get your money back.

I once wiped my bum with a fiver at a festival. I didn't have any tissue and I thought it was a receipt.

I've only just stopped beating myself up over that and it was 10 years ago.

Someone was telling me about her Husband doing this recently. He found £50 hanging out of a cashpoint and just took it. She was going on about how he didn't need to get his own money out. She could not see that it was stealing.

She then told me a story about her ds finding £20 outside a bank and he handed it in. She phoned the bank daily to see if anyone had claimed it up until the time allowance had passed and he could go and get what was 'rightfully his'!
She was saying that she expected the bank would say someone had claimed it so they could keep it.

Funny how it didn't seem to bother her that her dh had taken something that was not 'rightfully his'.

Blimey. I do things far more stupid than that on a daily basis (sometimes wonder how the hell I am still married, if I were married to me I would have left years ago). Hope it works out but in the meantime pat yourself on the back for being generally pretty sorted!