I guess I had a major blond moment

[freeatlast]

A week ago Thursday, I had my hair done. When I was done and went to pay, my debit card was not in it's normal slot in my wallet. Searched through my wallet and emptied my purse and it was nowhere to be found. Wrote a check to pay for my haircut and went out and emptied my purse again. Still no card. I realized that the last time I used the card was at Subway, so headed there to check. No card. So I went on to the bank and had it cancelled and had the teller check my account activity. So far, so good - no unauthorized charges. So they ordered me a new card and cancelled the old one. The new card came on Thursday. I activated it and went out to run errands today. Went to a small shop here in my town to purchase a birthday gift for a friend and opened my wallet to take out the new debit card to pay for the gift and what did I find lurking behind another card in the next slot down? Bingo - the missing debit card. I feel so stupid. I went through my wallet no less than 10 times and did not see it hiding behind the other card. Spent a week going to the bank to get cash or writing checks (and I absolutely hate to write checks in stores anymore). My daughter ever gave me a hard time because I have scolded her more than once for losing credit cards. I think it will take a long time to live this one down with my family...

[Amina516]

Ive done the EXACT same thing. I looked through my wallet a 100 times and it wasnt there.

Then my husband looked...and it was hiding behind another card.

I felt like an ass...lol...

[Shpepper]

I always have someone else look before I totally freak out.

[Aethian]

I use to have a wallet that would beep at me if the card wasn't replaced within 30 seconds of it being taken out. I loved that purse, sadly it wore out and I haven't been able to find another like it again.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

I've had that happen a time or two due to one of my wallets (I have several that I rotate between depending on what purse(s) I'm using) and on one of them, I have to be kinda careful how far I slide my cards into the slots.

Otherwise, it's remove all the cards out of the wallet and dig down into the slots to get the missing card out. And usually, it's the debit card trying to hide.

I guess it sometimes freaks out and thinks I'm going to burn a hole in it.

[smileyeagle1021]

hey, as long as you haven't done what I've done (twice)... throw away a perfectly good card
The first time I was at Wendys... the cashier set my card down on the tray with my food, I wasn't paying attention, assumed I had just put it in my wallet, and then when I finished very calmly slid everything off the tray into the trash... it wasn't until 2 hours later that I realized "oh shit, I just threw away my debit card"
The second time one of my cards was about to expire, I got the new card, activated it, went to throw away the old card, and it wasn't until the first time I attempted to use the card that I realized, oh shit I kept the old card and threw away the new card

[Pagan]

hey, as long as you haven't done what I've done (twice)... throw away a perfectly good card

Oh, Smiley, honey, that is smooth!

I haven't done anything like that....yet. I know it's coming because I keep my debit card in one of my pockets of my work pants when I'm working and then move it back to my wallet when I'm off. I'm waiting for the day that I wash it.

[SilverOrb]

I did that too when I was at a debating retreat in HS... Except I threw away the card that we paid for food with... with like 4 days to go... LOL

My dad had to wire me money.

Man... I forgot about that! :P