Well, I'll start off with the good news. The week up until today has been wonderful. We celebrated Grandma Jean's birthday on Monday and had a good time. I'll post pictures later. Then yesterday Matt and I celebrated our 3 year anniversary with an AWESOME dinner at Perry's. That was my first time their and it was delicious. So at least the first half of our week was good.
And then today....I went to check my checking account online and found that someone had decided to have a nice Valentine's day on my dime! Yep - $1200 worth of counterfeit checks were written against my account using fake checks. All within 4 hours on the same day. Luckily it was my Woodforest account and since I work there, I marched downstairs to our fraud department and the money was back on my account that day. It looks to be local as they were all local places but they have my drivers license number, date of birth and expiration date. So far they have only created checks with my info, no credit cards yet. For the next several months I'll be on the lookout for identity theft...fun! So I had to leave work early to go file a police report, which is an experience all by itself. I finished that, walked out to my car, started to drive away but before I even got out of the parking lot I saw a woman laying on the ground convulsing and a guy holding her. So I stopped, asked if they needed help, then ran back in the police station for help. While they were calling for help inside, I was helping the women on the ground trying to make sure she didn't get up as she was really confused and dazed. Long story short, she had a seizure for some reason and once ems came I left. What a day. Oh, and I left out the part where I spilled my lunch all down my shirt and had to go change at lunch....ahhhh.
But, we were reminded these past couple of days how precious life is. My mom had a friend pass away on Tuesday and Matt just found out an old neighbor of his that was his age passed away this week as well. So, even with the bad day I had, we are reminded everyday how fortunate we are and things could be much worse. If all I have to worry about is someone writing checks with my name, my life is pretty good :)
2 comments:
Good grief! You had a day. Yikes. Our account just got used the other day, but it was only for $240. I'd puke if it was $1200. Ours was an online transaction. How scary to think the person has all your driver's license info & everything.
Hope that lady is okay & that the stains come out of your clothes. See you Monday.
Oh my goodness. That sounds like the day from H E double hockey sticks! or as Calyn called it one time H E bubble pocky sticks. (I really have to watch myself. She doesn't forget anything!!!)
I am so sorry about your mom's friend & Matt's old neighbor!
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