I Almost Soiled Myself
Friday at work, I was looking at my email. At work, I have to use webmail instead of my usual mail program. I say that to point out that the interface at work is different than the one at home.
I had looked at a couple of messages, which changed the dark black display type into light gray type. I was expecting an email so while I worked at my desk, I would glance up and click on the inbox button every now and then. I didn't have my glasses on to read the computer, but I could see what I was doing basically. The top two messages were light gray, because I had already read them. If a new message were to come, it would be dark black.
On one of my refresh clicks, I hit the mother load. About 10 new emails appeared. Huh, I thought to myself, I sure got a lot of messages in 10 minutes time. I put on my glasses and began looking at the subject line of the messages. They were all orders from places I shop. They said things like, ORDER CONFIRMATION, SHIPMENT NOTIFICATION, and other "you just bought something" phrases.
OMG! I thought to myself. Some bastard must be using my credit cards to order all kinds of stuff. I thought about how I had just received 10 emails in a few minutes and wondered how many were in the pipeline still to come. I got that feeling in my gut and chest that says, "there is some major shit going down and it ain't good."
I was trying to think what to do to stop this pinball machine of purchases at my expense. I kept reading and noticed the dates were not current. Then I realized what had happened. When I went to click the "inbox" tab, I missed and instead clicked the "bidness" folder. When I did that, I brought up all of my email receipts for things I had purchased in the past.
Pheeewww! It was like waking up from a bad dream; all in about 20 seconds time.
That just goes to show you how powerful our thoughts are. I went from having my identity stolen and being in deep financial poop, to getting off scot-free. What a ride. The feeling couldn't have been better if I had been on a roller coaster.
No financial ruin or identity theft and luckily, no soiling of self. I did, however, get a good laugh out of it and another blog post.
Until the next time
John Strain