I can go you one better...

Few months ago I flew from Alaska to New York to pick up a car I had purchased (on ebay, can you believe it?) and my credit card company tracked me down in Oregon (visiting relatives) to tell me my card had been compromised. (They were right -- some criminal genius hacked into the email of a firm I had done business with, got my card info, then proceded to use it to make long distance phone calls that could easily be tracked back to him. He was already in jail when my card company got hold of me). So we had to cancel the card. No problem -- I had my emergency reserve backup card to get me back to Alaska.

Three quarters of the way through Canada, that card stopped working -- seems that since the card hadn't been used in two years, and all of a sudden there's activity in two states and two provinces over a three day period, they figured it must have been stolen. So I had to pay cash for my gas for the last 600 miles of the trip.

I guess you had to be there...

tanstaafl.

"There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch"