[Shaeba]

Originally Posted by Platinum

Had a really strange occurrence both yesterday and today (Bournemouth Uk).

I've had the same pin number for my card for years, use my card everyday, and of course, I know my number off by heart.

Yet, everytime I went to draw money from a cashpoint, I get some kind of 'temporary amnesia' and could not remember my pin number. Really strange.

Once home, I could recall it immediately, just as easily as if I'd never forgotten it.

Went out again later, and the next day too, and both times I again was struck by some kind of 'mental block' that stopped me from knowing my pin number.

Once again, arriving home, I could know it immediately. This time I wrote it down in tiny print on the inside of my thumb when going out so was able to withdraw money.

It's not that I needed it urgently, as I've taken the precaution of keeping a sum capable of supporting myself for a while hidden away in case of emergency, but I don't like to use that, and prefer to keep using the ATM until they shut them down.

I know this is not exactly 'on topic', just wondered if anyone else had been experiencing this curious 'mental block' phenomenom?

Okay. Wow. So interesting to see you post this. I had a similar occasion happen to me about two weeks ago on the 25th of September. I have never forgotten my PIN since I go it several years ago. Not once. Yet three times in that same day, I did. It wasn't even forgetting, really. It was more of a complete and total mind blank, as if the numbers just weren't even there in my head. It was the strangest thing in the world. Interesting to read that someone else has experienced something similar.