Funny story (read: not funny in any way):
I have a Canadian and American bank account and transfer money between the two to pay bills and such. Yesterday I tried to take money out of my Canadian account using my bank card and found out that it didn't work. Turns out some asshole had stolen my card number and PIN so my bank card was deactivated (they used a card reader at an ATM). Fortunately, they didn't get any of my money (not that I had any to begin with - jokes on you crooks!). Unfortunately, this also means I have no debit card or access to my Canadian account (where all my wealth is currently located). My bank told me I'd have to fly home to Canada to get a new card, which is not feasible on multiple levels. Good thing I don't have to pay rent on May 1st - whoops!
I am very opposed to the death penalty but in this case, I am willing to make an exception. Please learn from my mistake - never use debit cards and/or travel/live in other countries. Instead, stay inside your homes under a pile of coats and be very afraid.
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Showing posts with label death. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Monday, August 4, 2008
Can I Please Not Die?
Seriously, how many times could I have died this year alone? Spinning out on black ice, being in a hit-and-run, and now: a tornado.
So I'm working at my computer and see this crazy lightening zigzagging across the sky and scary dark clouds outside my window. Then I hear a siren that isn't quite an ambulance but isn't quite a car alarm. Could a tornado be on the way? It was then that I felt like Bill Paxton in Twister when he's at the drive-in movie theatre and he says, 'It's already here.'
Everyone in the building had to go downstairs to the lobby and sit around a radio to listen to the weather report. We were instructed to go in the basement if the tornado was on its way. I went outside briefly [smart, I know] to check out tornado-esque weather and was impressed by the strength of the wind [which downed some trees], the volume of the thunder, and by the flooding that had almost engulfed my street.
We heard reports of two tornadoes that touched down, one of them a little too close for comfort in Logan Square:
I think this city is trying to kill me.
So I'm working at my computer and see this crazy lightening zigzagging across the sky and scary dark clouds outside my window. Then I hear a siren that isn't quite an ambulance but isn't quite a car alarm. Could a tornado be on the way? It was then that I felt like Bill Paxton in Twister when he's at the drive-in movie theatre and he says, 'It's already here.'
Everyone in the building had to go downstairs to the lobby and sit around a radio to listen to the weather report. We were instructed to go in the basement if the tornado was on its way. I went outside briefly [smart, I know] to check out tornado-esque weather and was impressed by the strength of the wind [which downed some trees], the volume of the thunder, and by the flooding that had almost engulfed my street.
We heard reports of two tornadoes that touched down, one of them a little too close for comfort in Logan Square:
I think this city is trying to kill me.
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Chicago Drivers
I really am going to die here - my friend got hit by a car yesterday in Chicago! Some douche blew through a stop sign and hit her! She fully bounced off the hood and then started yelling at the driver. Guess why he didn't see her? You know the answer...
He was on his cell phone.
Fortunately, she wasn't hurt but seriously, it's a race to see who dies first.
** Update **
I did a brief search to find out if any stats are available on pedestrian fatalities in Chicago. Sure enough, Chicago has a much higher rate of pedestrian injury hospitalizations and deaths than neighbouring districts in Illinois and Wisconsin. I'm too lazy to look up anything else but the point is...it's time to make that suit out of bubble wrap.
He was on his cell phone.
Fortunately, she wasn't hurt but seriously, it's a race to see who dies first.
** Update **
I did a brief search to find out if any stats are available on pedestrian fatalities in Chicago. Sure enough, Chicago has a much higher rate of pedestrian injury hospitalizations and deaths than neighbouring districts in Illinois and Wisconsin. I'm too lazy to look up anything else but the point is...it's time to make that suit out of bubble wrap.
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