Can you believe this?

On Friday morning, I went to buy coffee at my favorite spot and my card was declined. Yes, it was the end of the month and funds were tight, but not that tight. I quickly got on my online baking app (thanks iphone) and discovered that yes, I had enough money for my coffee...BUT... there had been 2 weird charges on my card the previous day:

91.57 at Sheetz
158.14 at Food Lion (in Smithfield, NC!!!!)

Someone stole my debit info! WTF?!?!

Luckily, the Oregon Community Credit Union is awesome and deactivated my card as soon as they realized that 2 charges occurred outside of Oregon, hence the declined card for my coffee.  A few annoying phone calls later, card's deactivated, new card's on the way, and the thief's charges are in dispute.  The situation was handled surprisingly well. But this leads me to believe that this type of thing must happen quite often if all of these processes are in play to make the situation-handling go smoothly. That's sad.

And, by the way, who stole my card info? I have my card, so it must have been someone who just stole the number. Gas station person? Store clerk? Some random person on the internet? And how weird/coincidental that the charges were in NC...
I probably will never know.
I also never want to use my card again. Maybe I'll go cash from here on out...