It’s a sunday afternoon, and Owen Thiele is buying me a Power Card at Dave & Buster’s. He’s in from Los Angeles and wanted to do something touristy—plus, he says, “I’m a full-on Disney adult. I’m down for any games.” When we start playing Jurassic World: Jungle Jackpot, he gets a text from his mother, who received a message regarding the Dave & Buster’s charge. “My mom’s texting me about a fraud alert,” Thiele says. He explains that he never checks his account, so he has his credit-card alerts sent to his mom. “She’s very involved in my life. Too much. So it’s a disaster but also my favorite thing in the world,” he says. “My friends and other family members would say it’s a disaster.”
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