Little Toy Ships v2

Saturday, December 05, 2009

close shaves

2 things happened to me in the span of a week which I felt got me into highly precarious positions:

1. I was in Borders the other day reading magazines whilst waiting for Juin to finish work. Usually I see people who bring a ton of books and magazines and read them and then chuck them in a stack on the floor and leave. In the end the poor staff at Borders has to pick them up one by one and put them back in its place. When Juin arrived at Borders, we decided to leave and go for dinner. Since I only took 2 magazines with me to read, I decided not to let the poor staff clean up my mess and put them back where I got them from. Unfortunately Juin and I were engaging in exciting conversation (I can't remember what about) and soon I walked right out of the store without realising that I hadn't put the magazines back, I was still carrying them!!! Once I stepped out of the store I realised, and stopped and went back in to replace them, but my big face was already caught on camera. I was lucky that the store detectors didn't beep (for whatever reason), but it was still a close shave. I can't believe I was so absent minded!!!

2. I was queuing to draw money at an ATM the other day and the person in front of me was in such a hurry that he forgot to take his debit card with him. By the time I realised and turned around to yell at him, he had already disappeared. I looked down at the screen and it said, 'would you like to place another transaction?', indicating that if I had pressed 'yes', I would have been able to draw as much money as I liked from his account (providing that this fella is rich) because the dumbass keyed his PIN number in and left before ejecting his card from the machine!!! So I ejected his card, made my own transaction, and went next door to the bank, passed it to one of the staff and told her what happened. She took the card and I left, not bothering to ask for her name. However, the machine already caught me on camera ejecting the fella's card - what if he accuses me of taking it?! I would have no way of proving my innocence if the bank misplaces his card!!

Lesson learnt - you can never be too careful!!!

Yinny was Joshing around @ 7:57 PM

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