u/whoshotyaboy

In August of 2020, my daughter (10 years-old at the time) and I went over to a friend's house for a BBQ. It was early in the pandemic, which will be important later on in the story. The kids swam in the pool and were bouncing in their trampoline. At one point, I hear screaming and run over to the trampoline. My daughter is in shock (not even crying at that point) and her arm is hanging by her side in a really unnatural way. At the time, we all assumed it was dislocated.

We go to the ER and it is in a tent outside the regular ER because of Covid. It is packed with people and freezing cold in there. My daughter is in a wet bathing suit and a towel. When we rushed out to go to the ER, I didn't think to ask for clothes, jackets, blankets, etc. so we were there with the clothes on our backs. My daughter was crying softly on and off because of being cold and in pain while we were waiting. It ended up that she fractured a bone in her arm up close to her shoulder.

There was a really sweet young woman (20's if I had to guess) who was sitting close to us. She told my daughter and I that she had once dislocated her arm and that it turned out fine. And the random act of kindness was that she gave us her socks. She was in sandals and said she brought them in case her feet got cold, but that she wanted my daughter to have them. They were nice socks so I felt bad taking them from her, but she insisted. We ended up waiting for more than 8 hours and that nice young lady left before we did. We still have the socks (argyle ones with green and gray pattern) and my daughter and I call them our lucky socks. We wear them on days when we feel like we need a little extra good fortune.

I never even knew what she was in the ER for because she didn't mention it and I didn't feel that I should ask. But the gesture touched our hearts and we will always remember her.

TLDR: A sweet young woman brought socks for herself to the ER, but gave them to my daughter because she was cold.

I wired some money today and the bank representative said that I might get a call in the next hour to verify the information about the transfer. He said if I don't answer the call and give the automated system the information (including my pin number for my bank account!), that the transfer might be rejected.

When I questioned that practice and said that I don't give my pin number or other personal information when someone calls me, he said it is 100% customary for wire transfers. And that it would be an automated system and not a person (I personally don't see how that makes a difference). Anyway, I just checked what the internet said and it seems that it may be a scam and never to verify account information over the phone. But then I just read another post on here that said that a wire was rejected for not verifying the information.

I never received a call and the wire transfer is complete, but I'm just wondering if this bank rep is running some type of scam or if this is legitimate. Anyone know?