thartley
Veteran
I think I walked up right before something very bad was going to happen. We were at a chinese restaurant and found out they only took cash. My daughter walked next door to the credit union. I watched her walk over to the ATM and JUST did lose sight of her at the actual machine. But I kept watching, and watching, and she never popped back out there. I got a very sick feeling in my stomach and ran out of the place with the order still on the counter. There were two people at the ATM punching numbers and my daughter was just shaking. She looked at me and just said "help". It appeared to be two women but when I got right up on them, it was one woman and a dude in drag. Apparently as soon as my daughter had slipped in the ATM and hit the pin, the guy walks up and reached in front of my daughter, punched deposit and said he needed her help. He wanted to deposit a check to my account and transfer the money. He pops an envelope in the machine saying it had $500 in it. My daughter had her wits about her long enough the hit the cancel button and snag the card and receipt that popped out, but it wasnt going well. That's when I walked up on them and saw my daughter's face. I told them they needed to back off, I didnt care what they thought they were trying to do, I didnt know them. I thought my daughter was going to pass out. I took my pen off my shirt front and started writing down the description of their car and them. The one woman had already gotten back in the car as soon as I walked up. The man was still trying to talk to me, but left when I started writing stuff down. He jumped in the car and flew all the way out of the parking lot in reverse so I never got a tag number. Damn it!
We're lucky we werent shot or stabbed, and that they decided to run. I had NOTHING on me to use as a weapon if I needed to. My pen, I guess. When I walked up, I didnt know then exactly what was going on, but I could tell from my daughter's face things werent right, and I stepped directly between her and them, already knowing whatever was going down, they were going to have to go thru every bit of my flesh and bone to get to her.
My finances are on lockdown. I called the 800 number on the back of my card before I even left the ATM. I have to change everything, notify all the companies who auto draft from my account (Netflix, my webhosting svc, etc), go to the bank on Monday, etc.... I have no checks left (or cant find them since I moved, heh) So at the moment, I am a penniless DVXer.... My daughter is shellshocked and wont let me out of her sight. yeah, she's 17, almost 18, but already lost her dad to gunshot....so this was a bit much for her today.
mean people suck. :furious3:
We're lucky we werent shot or stabbed, and that they decided to run. I had NOTHING on me to use as a weapon if I needed to. My pen, I guess. When I walked up, I didnt know then exactly what was going on, but I could tell from my daughter's face things werent right, and I stepped directly between her and them, already knowing whatever was going down, they were going to have to go thru every bit of my flesh and bone to get to her.
My finances are on lockdown. I called the 800 number on the back of my card before I even left the ATM. I have to change everything, notify all the companies who auto draft from my account (Netflix, my webhosting svc, etc), go to the bank on Monday, etc.... I have no checks left (or cant find them since I moved, heh) So at the moment, I am a penniless DVXer.... My daughter is shellshocked and wont let me out of her sight. yeah, she's 17, almost 18, but already lost her dad to gunshot....so this was a bit much for her today.
mean people suck. :furious3:
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