Third time's a charm, right?

Well this is truly incredible. I have just requested my third replacement debit card for my Estonian bank account at SEB. Let me tell you a story.

Goldilox was traipsing through the woods one day when she chanced upon a green cottage with SEB written above the door. She poked her head through the door and realized that she had stumbled upon the home of the largest bears. A Que-matic machine stood in the living room and the kitchen was full of pension plans. On the counter she saw three debit cards, identical in appearance, and since no one told her not to, she picked one up and took it with her. She tried to buy something, but to her horror she realized she couldn't remember the PIN and after three guesses she was shocked to discover that her card had turned to stone. "Too frozen," she said, and threw it away.
She went back to retrieve the second card, and this time was sure to get the PIN. She was even able to change the PIN to make it easier to remember. But when she went to withdraw money from the ATM, she somehow managed to completely forget her card in the machine and when she went back to look for it, she found out that the machine was in fact NOT a machine, that it was in fact a ravenous hippo, and it had already eaten her card and she would definitely never see it again. "Too chewy," she said dejectedly, and went back to the cottage. Trembling, she picked up the third card, but to her dismay she saw that it would be activated in a week. "Too stale," she declared and left the cottage in a huff. She made it about 5 steps before two orphaned bear cubs, angry 'cause their mum had been shot, bit off her head.

The end.

I have *never* lost a debit card before and I'm just amazed that I've managed to do it twice in three weeks.
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Estonian Word of the Day:

haihtuma (HIGH-H-too-mah): to fade out; (in local lexicon:) to disappear. Mul haihtus pangakaart automaati. [My bank card disappeared into the ATM.]