What's a little credit fraud between friends?

So Tracie and I went out to eat last night. We had fun, the kids behaved so we decided to go to the pet store and then to Walmart. No big problems all the way through Walmart, which is ABSOLUTLEY AMAZING when you have four kids with you! We even ran into another friend of ours,  Sandy, with her husband and daughter. The kids were so excited and wound up you would have thought we were at Chuck-E-Cheese! They were playing "ring around the rosy"  in the middle of the isle and dodging carts like it was a game.  We actually found a way to have fun in Walmart (something that I have found impossible to do after working there)!

So anyway Tracie had picked up quite a few things and I had a candy bar for Lexi, and a pack of gum for Bink. So logically Tracie went first in the ever so busy checkout.  Yet again no problems, until I went to checkout with my one candy bar and my one piece of gum. I honestly thought that I was losing my mind! I swiped my debit card to pay the $1.97 total, put in my pin number, and my card was DENIED! I could not believe it, so I entered my pin number like three more times. Still no luck. I was thinking that even if I was broke, which this week I wasn't, I would surely have $2 in my account! The whole thing was getting to be embarrassing! I have never had my card denied before!  Then I noticed that it was coming back incorrect PIN. This is when I got pissed. I have had the same PIN for like five years, I thought I was losing my mind! It was only when my PIN was yet again denied that I looked at the card to see if maybe I had grabbed Josh's card on accident. NOPE! I had Tracie's card! 

I have never seen anyone so confused as that poor cashier. Tracie and I broke out into hysterical laughter, he was looking like, Oh CRAP I just let that lady(Tracie) pay for like $100 dollars worth of stuff on a card that wasn't hers, I think that he thought I was going to yell at him or something.

To be honest I should have, but I just found the whole situation so hilarious, that I wasn't even paying attention! It was honestly my fault, I would have never noticed if I hadn't decided to use debit, which I very rarely do, I just did this time because it was such a small amount. I almost wish I wouldn't have, think of the things I could have bought on Tracie's card, can we say "SHOPPING SPREE"?:o) Just joking people, I do have values!!

Anyway, we figured it out! The lady at the Chinese restaurant had switched our cards. It was not hard to do because we both have the same bank, and the only thing different about the cards is the name. But after we stopped laughing and I headed home I had to call Tracie. If she used my card at Walmart, then I used HER card at the pet store! GEEZE no wonder people steal credit cards! It is SO easy!

I won in the end! HEHE (Sorry Tracie) I do the "points" thing with my bank, so all of the money that Tracie spent I get the points for! Have you ever heard of credit fraud with benefits? I guess I will have to take her out to dinner or something!

Well in my ever so ordinary life this was a big day for me(haha) so I felt in necessary to share it with all of you!

 

NOTE TO CASHIERS AT WALMART : FOR GOODNESS SAKES CHECK ID'S!!!THIS IS WHY IT IS SO EASY TO COMMIT IDDENITY THEFT AND CREDIT FRAUD! But when the "victims" finds it as funny as we did, I guess it is ok!