So Tuesday 090225 (day after Labor Day)EBT deposit hit the bank. It usually comes on the 1st of the month but the 1st was Labor Day so…
Anyway Tuesday is my work day and the kids are still at home for the Summer holidays—going back to school this week—yay😂
So I figured I’d stop by the grocery store at around 7am and get stuff for the kids before heading to work—saves me from annoying Door Dash😂
Before I headed to the grocery store, I stopped by the Deli on Hillside & 171 (Five Star Food Market) to withdraw some cash—I get some cash assistance too with the EBT—Good on you, NY👍😂
So I walk into the Deli and there are more people than usual—just a casual observation, I don’t mean to imply anything by that. I step up to the ATM and do my transaction. My plan is to withdraw $90. This ATM dispenses 10s, which is why I use it. Everything goes on fine until it’s time to dispense the cash.🙄
For some reason, the machine says that it has dispensed only $10 out of the requested $90, but the $10 is missing😳. Soon thereafter, the ATM goes offline—not in service. You know what time it is—the TI alarm is going off full blast at this point🚨 😂. I’ve never seen anything like that. I’ve had instances where the ATM machine did not dispense any cash, but never as here, where the supposed $10 dispensed is nowhere to be found😂
There are also a lot of people milling around, like they knew what was going to happen. Looks like I’m the only one surprised by these “strange” events. Very weird. So I decided to ask the store owner why the machine never gave me my $10 and he said that happens sometime, and that I needed to “call my bank”.
Now, for a rookie TI like you, you’d freak out and start calling the EBT people about the $10 theft. What that would do is just cause you MORE/BIGGER problems because the EBT folks would probably lock your card thinking it’s been compromised—probably what the goal of the “covert operation” here was, beside the daylight theft.🤔
This seasoned TI knows better than that. I never called EBT, but MADE SURE to tell the store owner that this was theft and that I’m thinking about calling the police. Of course I’m not gonna call 911 over $10, but the point was to call him a thief—to his face.😂 Some of the bystanders even burst out laughing when I told him that before calmly walking away.
Anyway I walked into the grocery store across the street, got my groceries and then stopped at another Deli and withdrew $80 before heading back home
Point is, unlike your amateur a$$, I never got rattled, even though that is the aim of these “operations”—the good ol’ soft blows. Also remember, Tuesday is my work day, so it’s likely aimed to derail a TI’s day from the beginning—something I’ve pointed out in previous posts. As usual, none of this makes anybody in Jamaica Queens safer😂🙄
Could it be an innocent ATM malfunction? Probably. But like I said, I’ve never had a situation where money is dispensed but you never get it. Also, the curious bystanders, who appeared to know what’s going on, is what set off the TI 🚨 🚨. As I’ve said in my previous posts, a TI will KNOW when an operation is going down. You can’t miss it. My speculation is some type of neurotech is enlisted during these ops, making it to where you can’t miss them
I even posed this question to our good friend ChatGPT, and look what came back😳
That would explain the “innocent bystanders” who “strangely” appear to know what’s about to go down🤔 That’s just my theory, and one of the reasons why I’m looking forward to the new Church-type committee so I can hit you with a big fat “I TOLD YOU SO!!”😂
It ended up being a quite interesting day after the ATM incident. First of all, the F train ride to Manhattan was a “a little different”. I usually catch the 10:30am ride or earlier every time I go to work nowadays, and end up getting there before 11am. I switched to this routine after the infamous incident where, thanks to MTA, I ended up getting so late, I had to forfeit my shift.🙄 But anyway, for some reason, on Tuesday 09/02 I almost got to work late—some delay along the way😳
The work also ended up being heavier than normal.😳 On a regular day, we usually do two routes and almost always finish by 4pm. I had a 6pm Zoom class on this Tuesday. We were done with the two routes way before 4pm, but they gave me a 3rd route to the VERY CROWDED 47th avenue & 6th(they have a nickname for 47 av & 6 but I’ll leave it alone😂). Anyway, long story short, I ended up finishing right before 6pm, meaning there was no possible way for me to get home before the Zoom class began. I had to use one of the free NYC WiFi deals on 8th Avenue & 46th🙄. It’s still very early in the school year so no big deal.
I say all that to say this. It’s interesting how everything “goes wrong” on operation day. Are they all happenstance? Hmm. We report, you decide.
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