We received our happy super fun awesome new Washington Mutual GOLD debit card today.

Yay.

Now we can buy all the gold we want.

What was slightly odd was that after calling and activating the new card, we went to the ATM and inserted our old card. It didn’t work. Then we inserted the new card. Spit spit spit, three hot twenties came out just like we asked.

However, we didn’t even have to embed a PIN on it. Convenient, but also seems to be a security gap? Which is funny, then, because the new cards were supposed to help prevent security gaps…

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