{"id":8774,"date":"2005-04-04T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-04T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/04\/04\/saved-by-the-sms\/"},"modified":"2005-04-09T10:30:57","modified_gmt":"2005-04-09T07:30:57","slug":"saved-by-the-sms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/04\/04\/saved-by-the-sms\/","title":{"rendered":"Saved by the SMS"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>I was expecting my salary to be transfered to my bank account today.  It didn&#8217;t happen.  I checked my bank account a couple of times and relaxed &#8211; &#8220;Probably tomorrow&#8221; &#8211; I thought.  In the evening  realized that I need about 10 CYP to by some souvlaki.  I didn&#8217;t have any.  I thought &#8211; &#8220;No problem.  There is this friend of mine on the way to kebab house, so I&#8217;ll just pass by and borrow some money from him.&#8221;.  When I came to the guy, it turned out that he didn&#8217;t have any mony on him as well.<\/p>\n<p>So, I was standing halfway to the kebab place without a cent in my pocket.  I was trying to figure out where to get some money.  I didn&#8217;t want to go too far off the way.  And I didn&#8217;t want to open the credit line in the kebab place.  There were practically no options left.<\/p>\n<p>And at <strong>exactly<\/strong> last moment before I got disappointed with the situation I recieve an SMS.  It was an automatic notification from my bank that even forgot I setup.  It notified me that the balance on my account is above the specified value, which could only mean one thing &#8211; my salary got transfered.  I am pretty sure no banks work around here at 7 o&#8217;clock in the evening, so I couldn&#8217;t believe my eyes.  I went to the closest ATM and presto!  The money were indeed there.<\/p>\n<p>There is something magical about all of it&#8230;<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>I was expecting my salary to be transfered to my bank account today. It didn&#8217;t happen. I checked my bank account a couple of times and relaxed &#8211; &#8220;Probably tomorrow&#8221; &#8211; I thought. In the evening realized that I need about 10 CYP to by some souvlaki. I didn&#8217;t have any. I thought &#8211; &#8220;No &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/04\/04\/saved-by-the-sms\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saved by the SMS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-8774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15372,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/04\/day-in-brief-2011-08-04\/","url_meta":{"origin":8774,"position":0},"title":"Day in brief &#8211; 2011-08-04","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"August 4, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Pig is my favorite animal. 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