The bank just put a block on my credit card for suspicious activity, just because I was trying to order a dress from Australia.
\nObviously they don\u2019t know me very well. They actually rang me at work to check out what was happening. My office mate, who overheard the conversation, suggested they might have been alarmed because it was Australia instead of Paris or Milan. Cheeky. Privately I think it may have had something to do with the fact I tried making the order about twenty times using various different payment methods and on a range of devices, after it didn\u2019t go through the first time. I didn\u2019t confess that to him though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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