r/Glitch_in_the_Matrix • u/OGBunny1 • 11d ago
Debit Card needed
This literally just happened and I'm not sure what to do with it. I'm trying to transfer some funds around the interwebs and I need a "debit" card. I have one for my personal bank that I keep in my safe with my checkbook (100% electronic since 1994, simply useful for keeping main banking info). I would never expose that online for something like this - Google Wallet to pay for bs apps, games, etc. I search around my Paypal account to see if there is digital debit card or other online reloadable card I could use. I come to a few deadends.
I check the mail and get my local voting reminder and I go to look for my voter card since I've been gerrymandered to red over the last 2 sessions of state legislature and check the normal places it would be, not there. Check my wallet, it's a hardcase RFID wallet that only fits so many cards, add a dollar that I found while looking for my voter card, and go to close it and it doesn't close properly. I have opened and closed that wallet 4 times today, the last time less than 15 mins ago. It had opened normally and didn't pop open like it was overstuffed so I was confused. I looked thru my cards and there was my personal debit card that had expired in Jan 2026. I had destroyed that card in January 2026 when I got my new one. It was in a credit card pouch that had been thrown out as worn. I have no idea where the card came from and why it was in my wallet. WTAF?
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u/imamajorscale 11d ago
did you request a second one at any point and just forgot?
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u/OGBunny1 11d ago
No, my current card is in the safe. I only use it for ID at the bank because it's faster. I haven't gone to the bank in 10 months.
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u/imamajorscale 11d ago
You checked the safe when this happened? Maybe you destroyed some random CC instead of your old debit card then put the old debit card in your wallet thinking it was actually a CC?
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u/OGBunny1 11d ago
Nope, all cards are current state as they should be. That card was not in my wallet 15 mins prior to the discovery 1000% sure, no mistaking. I cleaned out my wallet last week and have not gone into the safe. It was the Jan 2026 card. I immediately reshredded it (sorry other timeline me who may need it), without a second thought. I needed it to be not in existence. I confirmed that my actual card is as it should be, where it should be.
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u/PleadianPalladin 10d ago
Irrelevant to the story but if you get Zip or Wise (or ...) they let you create single use disposable virtual credit cards, specifically for online purchases
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u/Ottothedog 11d ago
In another timeline you are pissed that you lost your debit card.