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Is Everything Going Wrong?
Or is The Universe Picking on Me?
And Christmas nearly came early.
Recently one of our bank cards went missing. I used it for something online and I am sure I handed it back to my wife, who uses it more than I do, but she claims I did not return it.
As we were sure it had not left the house, after a brief search, I decided to order another one; and do it online.
After logging on I filled in all the required boxes without any problems until I came to the one requiring the sort code. When I entered this “Invalid Password” came up.
Now the sort code only contained three characters and one of them had to be entered four times. I checked the code on my cheque book. It was correct.
However, I am aware my knowledge of what computers require of humans is not something I excel in, so I assumed the mistake was mine and re-entered the code “Invalid Password” appeared for a second time.
I did it a third time spacing it out as it appears on my cheque book: no joy. Sort code remained invalid.
With a sinking feeling I realised what I would have to do. I reluctantly picked up the dog and bone (see what I did there😀) and dialed a number discovered on the internet.
