The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

StarWarsGirl

StarWarsGirl

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donaldtoo said:
Yea, I don't get it either. The store on the corner, that I mostly go to, recently (about a year ago) upgraded their card system. At first, you could use the chip reader. Several months ago they put a note under the the chip reader... "No chip swipe only".
I know they are charged more by the card companies for a debit swipe than a credit swipe.
Maybe a chip read costs them more than a swipe...?
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I think the problem with the chip technology is the same with MDE and MBs when they first launched: technology wasn't thoroughly tested and tends not to work.

Target and Best Buy are the only two places here that it consistently works. Although it was working at D ick's sporting goods, but my bank hadn't sent me a new debit card with the chip when I last went there.
 
ajrwdwgirl

ajrwdwgirl

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figmentfan423 said:
Could be they're hiding a famous band or somebody bought a really big toy:hilarious:
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I doubt they hiding someone from a famous band. Although that would be awesome. They are Menonites and I don't think their religion allows for rock bands. The bus is still there but no one has been around. They are trying to sell their house so maybe it's the moving truck.
 
ajrwdwgirl

ajrwdwgirl

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Well people have emerged from the neighbor's house. It may be that they had family visiting and travel in the bus. There were just 3 kids and two adults so why they need a bus? Who knows? The plates on the bus are Wisconsin so it isn't like there is a long haul situation. And they don't seem to be loading anything but two small boxes. Anyway they have been running the bus for over 15 minutes now, there was some black smoke for awhile but that has left. This has all struck me as strange. Maybe I'm just a nosy Nellie.
 
ajrwdwgirl

ajrwdwgirl

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Ok last post about the bus...I swear! It just left and as it backed out it almost knocked over the other neighbors basketball hoop! :eek: I actually wouldn't have minded that because my dog barks at the kids when they play, so I have to yell at her and sometime close the drapes. And if I close the drapes I can't watch the neighborhood! ;):)
 
donaldtoo

donaldtoo

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Mr Ferret 88 said:
Its as Starwarsgirl has said
If I steal your card it has your signature on the back. Until the card is deactivated all I have to do is forge your signature to make a purchase. If you are chip and pin then to make a purchase with your card I have to guess your 4digit pin code. As for online purchases then that is a whole other can of worms.
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Funny thing. I know you are told to sign the back of the card immediately upon receiving it, but, I haven't signed the back of the last several I've had, and have never been turned down for a purchase because it. It has been my experience that the vast majority of places these days just don't check for the signature, or even ask for ID.
 
MinnieM123

MinnieM123

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ajrwdwgirl said:
Ok last post about the bus...I swear! It just left and as it backed out it almost knocked over the other neighbors basketball hoop! :eek: I actually wouldn't have minded that because my dog barks at the kids when they play, so I have to yell at her and sometime close the drapes. And if I close the drapes I can't watch the neighborhood! ;):)
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Hey, keep those drapes open, will yah??!! I'm following along here. There's nothing like spying on the neighbors on a quiet Sunday afternoon, to spice things up, you know?! :joyfull:
 
MinnieM123

MinnieM123

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donaldtoo said:
Funny thing. I know you are told to sign the back of the card immediately upon receiving it, but, I haven't signed the back of the last several I've had, and have never been turned down for a purchase because it. It has been my experience that the vast majority of places these days just don't check for the signature, or even ask for ID.
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I always sign mine, but not because I think they ever look at the signature. Just have it in the back of my head that somehow my signature on the back, if the card was ever dropped in a store, (but an honest person tried to turn it in to store management)--well, I could show them it was "my" signature. Someone else would have a hard time copying my signature.

O.k. o.k. that's a stretch, :cautious: but I like to think that I'm taking prudent safety measures. (I know . . . lame. ;) )
 
Goofyernmost

Goofyernmost

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StarWarsGirl said:
@Goofyernmost I am so sorry to hear about your ex. Thoughts are with you and your daughters.
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ajrwdwgirl said:
@Goofyernmost it saddened me to read you 9/11 post and read that things aren't going so well for your ex. Prayers to you and your girls. It will be a rough time for them when they lose their mom. Luckily you are there for them.
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MinnieM123 said:
@Goofyernmost , I just read your post in the 9/11 thread. This has not been an easy day for you or your daughters, and sorry to read about the fact that your ex is not well.
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It is always tough to lose a parent, even if that parent hasn't been terribly involved in the years since our divorce except for a few minor occasions a year. I guess that the actual presence of parents is reassuring to ones children. I haven't, by her earlier wishes, been able to be involved in her life at all. I don't know if at this point that still holds, but, I am trying to respect her wishes and have not been there. I have to admit that I am not all that anxious to see her in this condition and would rather remember her as she was, anger and all, then to see the degree that she has deteriorated since then. I will be there to help them and involved at the conclusion, but, right now it just seems to be a waiting game. Who knows, she's always been pretty resilient, perhaps she will pull herself through it. I do feel for the girls, both are starting to wonder if they made the right decisions about a year ago, but, I have spent a lot of time talking to them about how they cannot expect to know how these things will work out no matter what one does. Some of it is not in our hands. Thanks for your concern.
 

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