ATM Fiasco

I went to make an ATM deposit the other day. My car, at least the passenger seat, is a little more crowded these days because I carry a running list of my errands, a snack or two, a water bottle and sometimes a thermos full of hot tea, baby coupons, etc. So I pull up to the ATM and stick my business card into the card slot. I reach down to get the deposit envelope and I can’t find my business card. Now, you have an advantage because I’ve already told you that I put my card into the ATM, but somehow I didn’t realize that. So, I look at the deposit envelope and don’t see the card, I open my purse and don’t see the card, I feel my seat under my legs thinking I might have dropped it, and I still can’t find the card. I start going through all of my various items on my passenger seat, and the car behind me starts beeping. (even in Georgia we have impatient motorists) So I think, I should pull away and get out of the car so that I can find my card which I must have dropped. Luckily, before pulling away, I looked up at the ATM screen, which was asking me, “Do you need more time?”. I hit yes, and saw it was asking for my pin. Oh, right, I already put the card into the ATM, that’s why I couldn’t find it.

So, I enter my pin, and I was so flustered that I accidentally hit “Press Here When Complete” in Spanish. So I had to do the whole deposit in Spanish. Luckily, I do enough deposits that somehow I made it through and think I correctly deposited the money.

I tell Charles this story and he says, why didn’t you hit cancel? And I was like, how could I find cancel in Spanish? And he tells me there’s a cancel button on the pin pad…So we’ll have to blame this one on baby brain- or maybe exhaustion…something must be to blame, right?