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Earlier today an ATM responded with an error when I tried to get cash. I immediately checked my account balance online to make sure my account wasn’t somehow empty.

There would have been no realistic way for my account balance being the cause here and indeed it was fine. It really was just an error of the ATM.

But the time of my live where the last ten days of every month could very well have been like “no grocery money, fuck you” has left such a mark that a failing ATM transaction for any reason still sends me into a short panic.

Poverty fucks you up permanently and nobody should have to go through that.