Great story.
I keep thinking about the dystopia of a possible future “social credit” score.
Imagine a few years from now that Keith had gotten on the bad side of the social engineers who have given him a negative social credit score—and that is why his credit card did not work.
This good samaritan lady has now become a criminal aiding and abetting an enemy of the state—and now her credit score is about to become zero as well.
And don’t think it couldn’t happen . . . because the people assigning these scores are among the lowest dredges of humanity even if they have powerful high sounding titles, are adored by the media (but I repeat myself) and wear fancy clothes.