$100,000 Charged to My Card for My Sister’s Iceland Trip — They Came Home to a Different Lock

under the impression that either I would absorb everything or the numbers didn’t apply to real life.

The total climbed past $84,000.

Then past $90,000.

Then, one afternoon while I was wrapping up a café shift, I opened the alert and saw the number that would later make people gasp when I told this story.

A hundred thousand dollars. More, actually.

I set continue reading …