By now the whole world and his wife have been intrigued, excited, disappointed and then angry about derren brown pretending to see into the future but it actually being just a trick (LIKE ALL HIS STUFF).
But I am more intrigued by a different code of number that has baffled me since 06/08.
The secret authorisation code on the back of my credit card must have some kind of magic voodoo on it, as I can never remember it.
It’s a three digit code, I can remember longer, I can also remember letters in longer strings making up complex words, such as radiator, vitiamin and yo!sushi. All of these are longer than three.
So why can’t I remember this? I can remember the PIN code for this card, it’s a whole digit longer.
Some websites are now kind enough (or eager to take my money) that they store the rest of the fiddly card numbers on their site. But to make the transaction happen I have to type in this stupid code.
This means every time I have to go find the card which is often in my wallet, which in itself is left in a different place each night by my mischievous sleepy head/hand combination.
I reckon they print it with special ink, does anyone else remember theirs?
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I can, despite being utterly rubbish at remembering numbers (including the phone number of anyone I’ve ever known).
Maybe mine’s printed in in-secret ink….
Mine is 619.
I have you beat. I can’t remember the three digits either, but as I have three cards (in a bid to manage household finances like a grownup) I have three times the angst, not-remembering any of them. Then Barclays sent a little reader thingie to put in ANOTHER number online…