I was in line at the Granada City Tour kiosk at stop number three waiting to purchase tickets for the bus with my wife and two daughters. When it was our turn I asked for four two-day tickets and was prompted for $48. I handed over my credit card that I had been holding since we got in line and the cashier inserted it into the machine. At this point my daughter who was standing to the side of me turned to my wife confused because a man had very rudely inserted himself between us and was standing close behind me making contact with his body in multiple places to divert my attention. After a couple of seconds the cashier said that her credit card machine was broken, removed my card and asked if I had cash. I took out my money clip and handed the cashier a €50 bill and subsequently put my money clip back in my pocket expecting only a €2 coin in return. Meanwhile, a woman with a scarf draped over her shoulders, which concealed her hand and most of her movement, reached for my pocket, which began the pickpocket attempt. Thankfully, my wife who was facing me noticed the woman's hand coming around my waist and going into my pocket. My wife was able to grab her hand before the woman found my money clip and yelled "she's trying to pickpocket you!" at which time I started screaming nonsensical Spanish words and grabbed her arm and started rifling through her bag to see what she had stolen. Fortunately, nothing was missing from my belongings. However, my other daughter who was standing away from the action since she is pregnant did see the woman hand something off to the man that was involved. I can only speculate in saying that it was someone else's property from a previous theft that she was trying to unload before she was caught with it. After the woman unloaded her backpack, which contained only a few scarves, she scurried off before we could call police. We sat on the bus and as we were processing what happened, the bus started pulling out of stop number three and we saw another customer signing a receipt that they got from paying with a credit card using the "broken" machine. We realized while riding the bus over the two days that every driver has a credit card machine to allow for tourists to purchase tickets at each stop and that this machine easily could have been used when the cashier's machine was "broken" since the bus was there the entire time. read more