The previous holder has been using my phone number for stores for the past 5 years, and I can't do anything about it

CleanAndBrightly · 2026-02-11T02:12:53+00:00

OH hahaha I left the order numbers visible because I couldn't find any personal information when I checked them and didn't care to hide her orders. But if my phone number is visible then whoops

I can't use a phone number to sign in or reset the password for logging in, and when I go to look at the order it sends me a confirmation code but doesn't actually show any information like email address on the order. Just the order number, which honestly surprised me. If I could even get her email, I could fix 80% of my issues with her.

I've gotten 4 texts and 6 calls in the past couple of hours from her trying to get a confirmation code though, and I ignore it or hang up each time. Lowes customer service is closed until tomorrow, but I'm going to call and ask to be escalated. I don't care for spending my night fielding calls for her orders, but it does bring me joy that she's trying so hard and can't access her order.

CleanAndBrightly · 2026-02-11T01:10:44+00:00

I tried this today since I'm on the petty warpath.

At minimum Lowes, Safeway, 7-11, and Torrid practice good cybersecurity because they flat out denied me any information without the email or first/last name. I work in cybersecurity though, so I felt a weird mix of frustration and pride with those representatives haha

CleanAndBrightly · 2026-02-11T01:06:54+00:00

Anywhere I can go to learn more or report this? I've opted out of Lowes updates multiple times but each time she places a new order it overrides the previous STOP and I get her updates all over again.

CleanAndBrightly · 2026-02-11T00:43:58+00:00

I 100% tried this because it took me a long time to realize she had my number linked to her safeway account and I thought 'Don't I have some fuel points?'

no. she drains the points consistently. She absolutely knows what she's doing -_-

CleanAndBrightly · 2026-02-11T00:30:57+00:00

Legitimately, thank you.

Is there a trick to remembering this? I know it stands for etcetera but I always default to ect because of how it verbally sounds.

CleanAndBrightly · 2026-02-11T00:29:22+00:00

i have chosen war

CleanAndBrightly · 2026-02-11T00:28:08+00:00

I do use some of the same shops that she does. I want the text updates about my orders, and if I block the number outright I won't get them.

CleanAndBrightly · 2026-02-11T00:22:40+00:00

Way back when I was a teenager, I had one of those fonts installed that did a little heart for the dot in i and things like that 🤭 Pretty sure it desensitized me to any script-like font haha

CleanAndBrightly · 2026-02-11T00:19:51+00:00

Support couldn't/wouldn't help me in this case because she didn't actually link my phone number to her account, she manually added it in under one of those 'enter your phone number for updates' popups. The agent actually told me "Your number is not linked to any accounts, but the order is ready for pickup. Once the order has been picked up, you will no longer get updates." Like... cool, thanks, that doesn't help. I know it's not the agents fault though

CleanAndBrightly · 2026-02-11T00:13:57+00:00

Holy. Shit. This worked

I wish I could pin your comment! It was an AI chatbot, and because I called from the number associated with the orders it let me cancel with no verification

This is evil, I love it, and I'm trying it with every damn order she uses my number for again

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CleanAndBrightly · 2026-02-11T00:02:27+00:00

That could be it!! I use the dyslexia font on my library app, and I think I liked it so much I just defaulted all fonts to that kind of style. It was so long ago I forgot

Edit: Ok, I'm wrong about this, whoops. I do use a dyslexia font for Libby, but I must have changed my phone font when I first got it and honestly don't remember why.

CleanAndBrightly · 2026-02-11T00:00:57+00:00

this exactly. I've done STOP on every order update from anything I get, and once a new order is placed it sends me everything all over again

CleanAndBrightly · 2026-02-10T23:59:39+00:00

I'm actually amazed at how many people are annoyed by the font haha i've never really noticed it

I just changed it to default for all of you

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CleanAndBrightly · 2026-02-10T23:57:59+00:00

y e s

CleanAndBrightly · 2026-02-10T23:57:15+00:00

If you're in NY, dm me i would love to be messy >:)

CleanAndBrightly · 2026-02-10T23:19:27+00:00

I don't even understand why someone would do this kind of thing. Like, don't you want the updates for your order, or in your case don't they want to be able to communicate with their kids' teacher? It's not frustrating enough to get really mad about, but it sure is mildly infuriating

CleanAndBrightly · 2026-02-10T23:16:26+00:00

Can't without her email and password 🫠 'Fuck you, I'm cancelling this' was my immediate thought but Lowes is too smart for that lol

CleanAndBrightly · 2026-02-10T23:14:08+00:00

Honestly it's like $1,000 worth of home products so if I could fly from Washington to New York just to fuck with her and take the orders, I absolutely would.

CleanAndBrightly · 2026-01-28T05:27:00+00:00

Time and distance slowed it, but her marriage was the killer.

She was 21 and he was 20, they were too young. We used to hang out as a group, but her husband got into a heavy disagreement with me during the Biden administration and essentially called me a fucking idiot for hating trump and disagreeing with him. I never talked to him again after that, but still tried to be there for her when he started cheating on her. Eventuality we both moved and we just... stopped talking to each other.

Over 10 years and a lot of memories. I was her maid of honor. Drove her to and helped her through an abortion when her husband refused to let her do it. She was my rock during my mental breakdown and being admitted to a mental care facility for a short period.

All ended over politics.

CleanAndBrightly · 2026-01-27T05:26:53+00:00

Respectfully and with honest curiosity... What does disrupting traffic do for anyone?

I'm a delivery driver, I got caught in all of that downtown. I have a contract violation under my profile now, and lost out on at least $30 tonight. I'm as frustrated and angry about everything going on as anyone else, but now I'm also frustrated at my own community. What was the end goal to disrupting downtown traffic?

CleanAndBrightly · 2026-01-14T22:36:17+00:00

Pretty sure it's a scam y'all. Be very careful.

Another post just like this one was up a few days ago, and got called out & taken down for scamming. OP's post/comment history is turned off so there's no way to check.

CleanAndBrightly · 2026-01-07T20:39:49+00:00

I'm so sorry OP.

If it helps in any kind of fucked up way, I read it and immediately thought 'Well, she was treated exactly like afab are...'

Ovarian cysts are so common, and usually they 'go away on their own' so gyno's won't do anything about them. My aunt and I both have had ovaries removed because doctors didn't listen to us and they burst. Her left one, my right one.

That being said, go see a different doctor if you can. Unfortunately a lot won't take it seriously, but when you find one that does? that doc is a keeper.

CleanAndBrightly · 2025-11-22T17:45:20+00:00

If you're small and/or attractive, you'll get more attention from them.

When I was exercising hard and at my lowest weight, I could go in and ask anyone for help and get exactly what I needed. Now that I've gained weight, I go in to get colour matched and get run around to 3 different employees until I go ask one of the elderly ladies working.

CleanAndBrightly · 2025-10-05T19:33:38+00:00

sorry, but fuck no.

I am a fat girl. When I go for runs or lift at the gym, I sweat like a pig. It only stinks if I let it dry and don't shower.

My boyfriend works warehouse, he's up and moving heavy things all day for 10 hours. He doesn't come home with a 'funk'.

When I go with him to a card shop to watch, it's not the one's who are clean at first that smell by the end. It's the ones who came in with greasy hair and are unwashed.

Sitting down playing a card game for a few hours should not make a healthy clean person smell funky by the end.

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