I handed my Metrocard to my mom, asked if she could put $20 on it.

[conuly]

It's more convenient for her to just do that when she's in the train station than for me to head to a train station to do it.

So she comes home that night and says "I was going to refill your card, but I found I had this other card I didn't know about, an unlimited that's about to expire in a week. You use that one, I left it by the TV for you."

Win!

I grab the metrocard, grab the suits, and head for swimming... only to find, to my dismay, that what I thought was the right card really only had $2.75 on it, leaving me with just 25¢ to get home, which as you can see is plainly not enough.

So while the girls went to class I called my mom and set out to make change. Yes, my mother said, she hadn't meant some other card. She had no idea how that happened, maybe she still had the unlimited on her...?

After swimming I get on the bus, card in one hand, change in the other. My plan is to swipe my card, then pay the remainder in coins. Except when I dip my card, it says I have a transfer, which is impossible (you can't transfer to the same bus you got off, and it'd been more than two hours), and there is $8.75 left on the card.

I definitely had no other card in my pocket. It's definitely the same one. I am definitely weirded out.

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Comments

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

Nah, something is up with their system.

I have repeatedly gotten on the subway after taking the train from Bay Terrace, and then the boat, and been told I had no transfer. Same the other way around - subway at Grand Central, boat, SI train, no transfer. Its gotten to where I swipe, have no transfer, go to person at the desk and am like "you can check when I used it and that I have a transfer, because its telling me I don't". I no longer put larger chunks of money on it. Just one ride at a time, because a few times its used my next fare and Im like "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO THATS ALL I HAD!" :(

And its not just my metrocard, its happened on 3 different cards I've gone through.

Other times its told me I had an unlimited (I've never once bought one), and other times that I had some random amount of money left.

So something internal with the MTA is up. IDK what it is though. :x