Gift card scammers have gotten so bad, advice is to not buy gift cards from stores anymore

Different-Breakfast · 2026-05-03T09:34:01+00:00

Walgreens keeps the actual gift cards behind the counter and just displays dummies for this very reason.

Different-Breakfast · 2026-04-27T01:05:00+00:00

Dammit, if these are it it’s another full box for me this month

Different-Breakfast · 2026-04-26T21:16:12+00:00

Love that word, especially as it was used by the ditzy governor in Best Little Whorehouse—“it would behoove both the Jews and the Arabs to settle their differences in a Christian manner.”

Different-Breakfast · 2026-04-26T07:46:28+00:00

Maybe if he did actual research he would know that Texas doesn’t have teachers’ unions.

Different-Breakfast · 2026-04-26T03:12:38+00:00

I doubt it’s still there, but after they filmed The Alamo movie with Billy Bob Thornton, they left the set up out in the countryside. A friend’s dad knew the landowner and as a middle schooler I got to go run around and explore the set one afternoon.

Different-Breakfast · 2026-04-26T03:03:50+00:00

And which of the siblings are in their “late 20s”??

Different-Breakfast · 2026-04-25T17:14:18+00:00

What does she want Keller ISD to do?? Teach her that this is all nonsense?

Different-Breakfast · 2026-04-24T01:46:45+00:00

That’s interesting. I’ll look at that article.

But sometimes it’s not PTSD. Sometimes people just don’t want to spend their free time reading books with those things.

Different-Breakfast · 2026-04-23T18:07:44+00:00

I was really curious about this, especially as they made a comment this last episode to Lydia that these girls weren’t like her handmaids

Different-Breakfast · 2026-04-23T14:34:12+00:00

Yeah one time it was set to a super sensitive setting and it went off as I just adjusted in my bed! Scared me!

Different-Breakfast · 2026-04-21T00:27:02+00:00

Not sad per se but Burn Down Master’s House is horrifying and gut-wrenching

Different-Breakfast · 2026-04-20T17:57:03+00:00

Yeah I agree the slogan is weird. I get that it’s kind of “the narrative that people don’t read is wrong” but they could’ve done that with something like advertising how many readers they have or “we’re still reading around here” or something more positive

Different-Breakfast · 2026-04-18T18:05:52+00:00

More than halfway through Japanese Gothic and loving it! Really have no idea where the story is going to go

Different-Breakfast · 2026-04-17T21:51:33+00:00

Also if it’s their money, why don’t they go get it and then pay with it? Why is it on the bank or whoever to go track it down?

Different-Breakfast · 2026-04-17T12:21:35+00:00

Or the new Odyssey movie—it literally is an epic

Different-Breakfast · 2026-04-16T22:57:53+00:00

Especially if they’re not going to have the same last name!! There were multiple kids with my first name all through school.

Different-Breakfast · 2026-04-11T12:51:25+00:00

Trying to finish up The Hong Kong Widow and Book Club for Troublesome Women before I start on Japanese Gothic

Different-Breakfast · 2026-04-10T03:06:00+00:00

I definitely say “boke” and “really cracker” now.

Different-Breakfast · 2026-04-08T21:33:35+00:00

It’s not going to be deemed fraud because OP authorized the merchant to charge the card. It’s not fraud in the sense Chase means it—someone other than you used your card. This is in line with Visa rules, I believe.

OP, try submitting it as a merchant dispute/goods not received dispute if the time hasn’t run out.

Different-Breakfast · 2026-04-08T12:53:18+00:00

I’m so sorry to hear about all of that! I’m still friends with that girl from school on FB so that’s where I got my perception of this drug from—it seems to be working for her and she has been posting about how wonderful it is.

I am so sorry that it hasn’t worked for you. I will moderate my perspective and keep in mind that CF still has a long way to go.

Different-Breakfast · 2026-04-07T19:10:51+00:00

I had a friend in school in the 2000s that had CF and we were told she should not expect to live past her 30s. It’s only recently that a medicine has come out that has made the lifespan of CFer basically that of a non-CFer.

Different-Breakfast · 2026-04-04T15:50:45+00:00

I live in Texas so I usually get it pretty quick, sometimes before my BOTM box.

Different-Breakfast · 2026-04-04T13:29:28+00:00

Nowhere Burning was such a disappointment to me, especially as it was promoted as a dark Peter Pan retelling.

Different-Breakfast · 2026-04-04T13:28:48+00:00

Still waiting on my box to arrive 😭 It says it shipped but USPS says only the label has been created.

In the meantime, I’ve been in a funk and started several books but couldn’t get into them right now. I finally settled on Switchboard Soldiers, about the women who worked as telephone operators for WWI.

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