Aug 8, 2007

Swim Fun Dentist Crime

Showboating Well we went swimming this morning and great fun was had by Eloise and me in the pool with our eyes in blow bubbles and roly-poly arms and kick kick kicking and monkey monkeying around the edge.

Eloise did very well and swam two lengths on her own (with floatation devices naturally) and also some only slightly assisted jump in turn round swim to the sides with no floatation assistance at all.

She had a gutful of water by the end of it though.

Nicole, on her day off, watched from the side, while her handbag containing credit cards sat merrily hidden in Eloise's changing bag in the changing room. Of which more later.

Ric, Jatah and Toby came round about the same time as the tree surgeon ensuring Eloise's nap was aborted (never mind eh) and we haggled over Tenancy Agreements and signed up.

Then to the dentist where Eloise's teeth were checked and we played with fishes and stickers and bird mobiles while Nicole's teeth were hygienically cleaned.

When it came to be time to pay, however.... Nicole's credit card was gone, and her mobile phone too!

We found the mobile phone, quietly charging in our bedroom. But we checked the bank balance, and we've been cleared out. Absolutely gutted. The bank and us both.

So onto the bank and it turns out they'd detected fraudulent activity and blocked the card. When we can see the detail of the transactions tomorrow we'll be expecting to see a flurry of transactions at Indooroopilly shopping centre after 11 o'clock. Though mysteriously the Westpac fraud squad sent us an email at 10.53 to alert us, so maybe we'll be surprised.

So we are crime victim household today.

Westpac tell us we should get the money back, thankfully. Aren't banks marvelous. But it makes you realise that if you've got a bank card in your wallet you might as well be carrying around all of your money, all of the time.

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