Like Father like Daughter like Father

What an odd thing it was, with oddly synchronous timing!

We have a credit card that we don't use. Well, hardly ever. Somehow, it accrued a credit of $7 (rounded off, because we don't require the minutia of pennies for this narrative). Every month the cc company has been mailing to me a statement to this effect as the card sits unloved in the cupboard.

I don't keep this card in may wallet, but fully intended to settle this $7 for once and for all. That point came on Friday. I was going out to make a small transaction of $13 (as it turned out). I spotted the card in the cupboard at the last moment, grabbed it, and took it with me. Once the new transaction were to go thorough the books, I would then pay the difference that I would owe, and I would then be done with this card once and for all. Or at least, I would get the balance to 0 and, therefore, would no longer get a month mailing.

As chance would have it, it so happened that the normal monthly invoice was in my mailbox the next morning, Saturday. I opened it to find the standard $7 credit. 

But what was this?! There were four more purchases totalling $120. On a credit card that we don't use!

They were all from Amazon. I double-checked my account, but I do not even have this card listed with Amazon. I only have one card listed there, and it ain't this one.

At one time, Shauna had a copy of this card in case she had to purchase something or other for us. That was back in the days of yore before we could all easily etransfer money as required. She has not  needed to use this card in ages, and she reported to me that she had destroyed her physical copy of the card because her version was expired and no longer valid.

So, if we didn't use it, and she didn't use it . . . uh oh . . .  better call the company.

Meanwhile, my estimable wife noticed that the purchases had been made around Father's Day in June, and  the timing seemed to correspond, but Sue hadn't made those purchases. She had Shauna make them on her behalf. She often does it this way, so I don't get spoilers in my inbox or at the door about what a are meant to become gifts.

Some time ago, we reimbursed Shauna for the amount of what she had purchased for us, and that was that, or should have been.

What the sam hill was going on?

While I was on hold with the card company, I asked Shauna to check her Amazon account and orders, just to be sure. Sure enough, she has mistakenly used my card which was somehow still registered with her Amazon account despite her having cut up her physical copy.

Thank goodness, I was able to hang up the phone before having to explain this mixup to the company.

Look at the synchronicity of this. On Friday, I make a purchase using a card that I never use, just to get the balance cleared up. Then, on the very next day, I open an envelope showing me that the card that I never use had. in point of fact, been used four times in just the preceding month. Also odd was that, somehow, Shauna had used the expired card that she had destroyed to make these various purchases.

This would be something that I might do — use the wrong card and an apparently expired one too. 

I turned to Sue, and later also said to Shauna, that "She is definitely her father's daughter."

As a final point as proof of the last statement, I have more than once made online payments to the wrong company. They were substantial, but I had been able to reclaim them in due course.

So, I guess that I am my daughter's father.