Someone checking to see if the numbers are good, Dana? Sorry that's happening, what a pain.

So yesterday I'm in my car in the drive thru lane at the bank. It's a long line, and the guy from the car in front of me is out and looking in the back of his car for something. He wanders back and starts chatting with me. Hubby has told me I need to actually interface with meat people on occasion, so instead of brushing him off I chat. The line moves forward, he drives up as well, it slows down again, he comes back to chat again. And proceeds to give me his card in case I "might want to talk", then asks if I'm single. I sympathetically say "No." He gets very embarrassed, stutters a bit, then goes back to his car. He does yell Bye as he finishes and leaves, so kudos for overcoming the embarrassment. I felt both imposed on and sorry for him. Here's a middle aged balding guy putting himself out there, only to run into a married woman. Plus, I'll be honest, it's been decades since someone not Hubby hit on me.

I actually have a not-even-on-the-street bike path that goes from near my house to the grocery store. I just lack the will.

Usually if they're checking the number, it's a really low charge. And it was from the 19th, so they've had plenty of time to rack up other charges. Nope, just Hulu.

I feel like this happens to me all the time. It's not just me, right?

DH often bikes to the store for a few items quite often. I try, but I always need more items than my bike bag will hold. Er, that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it! Which reminds me, I should go pick up a few items for lunches, and for tonight's dinner.

That is weird, Dana. I can't imagine why you are being targeted for small entertainment-related fraud like that.

And that's a good excuse, Burrell!

OK, dishes.

I feel like this happens to me all the time. It's not just me, right?

That's weird, and makes me think I should check my statements more carefully, because I might not even notice an extra $25 charge....

I have gotten cursory about that, come to think of it.

Another possibility is that Hulu billing somehow transposed some numbers on input or whatever.

Maybe someone who doesn't want to get caught just places small charges in lots of people's cards. Perhaps I should actually check my cards.

Hil, when I worked at a small town grocery store, we used to save extra inserts from the Sunday Paper for people who couponed. This was 20 plus years ago so I don't know if it works the same now, but the inserts got delivered early in the week and we had to put the paper together on Sundays , and the numbers didn't usually match up. Less moral, but we also sometimes gave away the innards of the papers which didn't sell, because we only had to send back the part with the name of the paper and the date. I imagine the days of a small store selling hundreds of papers is at an end, but there might be a leftover insert or two