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Chuksonu700:
No matter how little the amount, losing money can be a painful experience for most persons particularly when it involves hard earned money. Worse still is when the lost money happens to be your last card. By last card, I mean no other money in hand and nothing in the bank account. How do you feel when you lose your last card?

For the majority of Nigerians particularly those on the lower rungs of the socio-economic ladder losing money no matter how little (even as little as ₦50) can disrupt their economic balance. Only a very small percentage of Nigerians can afford to replace lost money without much pain, thought, and planning.

So about a week ago I lost my money, I mean my last card. I didn’t lose it in the literary sense of losing something because it neither got stolen nor misplaced. I chose to say I lost it for want of a better way to put it.[img][/img]

Here is what happened: I ran out of data a day before and had been offline for the meantime while weighing my subscription options. I had to really weigh my options because all the money I had on me that Saturday was ₦1,500 and some small change (nothing in the account), the five hundred being the exact amount I’d need for transport to work the following week.
Although I appreciated the internet break, I knew needed to get data because I won’t be able to work effectively without it and so after my calculations, I decided to purchase a thousand naira worth of data since I was expecting some money during the coming week.

The next evening (Sunday) I gave my youngest brother the money to get a recharge card for me while I went to the kitchen to make dinner. I was busy in the kitchen when he got back so I told him to keep it in my purse with the intention to recharge it after making dinner.

I use MTN network provider for calls (like most Nigerians) and GLO network provider for internet subscription, the reason being that although MTN has stronger network coverage and cheaper call rates, Glo data rates are way cheaper. And because I use MTN for calls, I recharge it more often and so whenever I want to recharge, I almost subconsciously input the MTN code first.

As I picked up the recharge card and my phone to recharge, I automatically dialed the *555# code for MTN instead of the *123# code for Glo. I inputted the pin and hit the send button before I realized my mistake and there was no cancel option. Normally the process would not go through when you dial a wrong code but unknown to me glo has a promo offer that is activated when you dial the *555# code.

Immediately I hit the send button, while I was still trying to process my mistake, I received a notification that the promo package had been activated. It hit me like a thunderbolt as I immediately let out a scream, dropped my phone, and flung myself on the floor murmuring, sobbing and laughing at the same time. My scream attracted my family members to the room where they found me on the floor half sobbing, half laughing and muttering incomprehensibly.
Sounds like madness abi? I know. The pain was just too much for me.

I’m sure you’re wondering why I reacted this way. Remember I said the ₦1000 was all the money I had asides from my transport to work and some loose change. Because of the tariff plan I am subscribed to, when I recharge my Glo line, I usually get about 400mb bonus data and ₦5000 bonus airtime asides from the normal ₦1000 airtime with which I’d eventually purchase data. Now the *555# promo code gives you 5× the value of your recharge without the additional bonuses.
And so by dialing that code, I got 5× my recharge value that is ₦5000 (which I would have gotten from my normal recharge), lost the data bonus and worse of all the ₦1000 airtime I purchased was taken in exchange for the 5× value meaning I would be unable to purchase the much needed data. Plus the airtime was not so useful to me because Glo has an outrageously high call rate.
I hope you understand my pain now. I just had to mourn my loss.

I was left with no choice but to use my transport for the week to purchase data the next day being Monday and thankfully the small change I had carried me to work. The money I was expecting came in on Wednesday but before then I had to borrow money for transport to work on Tuesday.

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NNU0000:
Very nice story.I thought it was real to the end.