Cursing - you're doing it right

If you remember yesterday's post, I was talking on a book about curses, and mentioned that I would try something based on said book.

Let me just say, the results have been very, very satisfying.

Yesterday I got what I thought might be a scam mail concerning my PayPal account, saying that there had been unusual activities and that my account had been partly disabled until I changed some settings. I started checking on the internet and finally (NOT via the link provided in the mail, of course) went to the homepage. Where I found that the mail had not been a scam, for indeed there had been irregular activities. To be more exact, someone had transferred roughly one third of my monthly paycheck out of my bank account.

First I was shocked. Money is usually tight around here, and with a little planning and being careful we make it to the end of the month. With about 400.00€ (roughly 500.00$) missing, chances were not that big. (That is almost what we need for food in one month.)

Then I got angry. I followed through with the recommended steps (reporting the transaction and changing my login data and security questions) and sent a first bit of angry energy towards whoever did this. (This was mostly because if I do not get rid of this kind of energy, I tend to fry technical stuff by touching it, and I need the computer at work.) And when I got home, I adapted one of the recipes from "Utterly wicked" to fit what I had at hand (a sheet with the information on the transaction, some peanuts and black thread) and went through with the instructions. Afterwards I settled down on the sofa, remarkably relaxed, and watched the BF play "Fallout 3" for a while.

This morning, when I got up, there was a mail stating that the affair has been settled and that the money will be transferred back to my account within a few days. Of course I will a) keep an eye out for it, and anything out of the ordinary and b) contact PayPal to explore possible legal options. But for now let me just say how utterly satisfied I am with how quickly everything was sorted out.

I will be very honest with you, I was not out for justice. I was out for revenge. It is not possible to take someone's money "by accident", not if you have to hack into their account for this. And if someone does this with one account, he will surely do this with many others. And other people may not be as fortunate as I was - they may consider the mail spam and delete it, or they may not check their bank account until it is too late to do something, and for others money may be even tighter, so that even the temporary loss of this kind of money may be a catastrophe. (Of course there will be others who do not even notice that something like this happened.) Anyway, I was very clear with my request during the ritual: I wanted my money back, and I wanted nasty and ugly revenge. The kind that comes with bedsores and puss.

Anyone think light and love would have been a better solution? ^^