Janine first noticed the issue with her calendar app when she went to add a meeting in two weeks and couldn't select that day. She tried opening it up and scrolling in day or week view, but it wouldn't go past the 16th. She assumed it was some weird glitch and decided to try again in the morning.
The next day she still couldn't get it to work, so dropped an email to IT. By the end of the day, the case was closed with instructions on how to add an event, which she tried following to the letter just in case she'd been doing something stupid. It still wouldn't work, so she emailed them again.
A few other weird things happened that week. Her coffee subscription service was cancelled, and when she tried to restart it, the website kept throwing out errors. When she rang the dentist to book a check-up, it all went well until the receptionist tried to enter it into their system and then all the appointment slots "vanished" and they were so sorry, could she call back later? And despite back and forth with IT, and finally a Zoom call with a confused and frustrated technician, the calendar glitch could not be resolved.
When the 16th came, Janine was walking her dog when she got an unexpected notification from her bank telling her she'd received money from her landlord. The transaction was labeled simply "refund" and was about half the amount of her monthly rent. Confused, she texted her landlord, but was interrupted by a string of further notifications as one after another, all her direct debits were cancelled. She called the bank helpline and finally got through to an actual human being who told her that her account was marked for closure.
Frustrated, she asked how and why, as she stepped into the road. She did not hear the answer. She did not see the truck.
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