Then there's our bloody bank that saw fit to withdraw on-line purchasing privileges from one of my Visa cards over the weekend without telling me. Natch, it's the card I have registered with Adobe, Paypal, Amazon & god knows who else. Not just that, but being closed from Saturday pm until Tuesday I couldn't get hold of them to find out why, so I was in a muck sweat thinking that I'd been hacked, or that Adobe had been hacked yet again and my card details were now being used by Nork teenagers to log into porn sites or buy coke or nukes. OK, my accounts didn't show anything, but that was only half reassuring because some postings don't appear until the bank reopens on Tuesday.
Anyway, after ruining my digestion & sleep for two nights it turned out that that card's attributes had been based on our owning a company, and some dickless wonder at central office had just realized on Friday that we closed it in 2016, so he, she or it pulled the plug, with never a by-your-leave or pardon, and that just before they went incommunicado for the weekend. Considerate service, that.
Then in Monday's post there's a new Mastercard - I like to have both because not everywhere in Germany takes Visa - so when I'm in the bank on Tuesday I try to activate it at their ATM, only to find my PIN refused. I remember a PIN I had for an older Mastercard and try that, but it's refused too so I ask the biddy at the counter to trigger a PIN request. That comes through this lunchtime: she's sent me the PIN for my Visa cards. Of course, it could be that the Visa PIN now applies on the Mastercard as well, by why should it?
Heigh ho.