My careless ways have come back to haunt me. I noticed my debit card was missing yesterday, and assumed it was at home until I got home and it was nowhere to be found. In checking my bank account online, I found that we were over $300 in the hole, and knew someone else has been using my card. I've really been madder at myself for losing the card than I am at whoever's been using it. I suppose they stopped being able to use it when the money ran out in the bank acount. It was used a couple of times at a gas station and a couple of times at a department store. I realized that Sunday was the last time I used it, so I must have dropped it in the grocery store or its parking lot. I had to call the police this morning so I could give the bank a case number, etc. The police officer said the case should have been filed with the district where I lost the card, but no one asked me about that on the phone. Such red tape and paperwork, I feel sorry for police officers who have to spend all their time on that, instead of doing work that needs to be done.

I have a little fantasy that the person who found the card really needed the money and maybe they were buying clothes and necessary items for their children. It's easier to feel that way since the charges will be removed from my account and I'm not really out anything (except for the higher prices at the stores and higher interest rates and service charges we all wind up paying for other people's crimes).