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[GrammaJan]

Down but not out, Jan. Ya see there, I've stopped calling you Gramma after finding out how young you are, you're grandkids are cradle robbers.

Remember my motto, everything is temporary. Sounds like you're in the rapids now but there will be smooth water just around that bend. However, consider that you move faster through the rapids if you just relax and have to paddle through the smooth. Just make sure you stay in the canoe in the rapids.

I think it's time to raise my paddle and whack someone with it.

Had my first kid at a young and dumb 20. That's why I get to be a youngish gramma

 

[Runwildboys]

Morning Pops!

Almost Friday, which may not seem like something I should be excited about, since I haven't worked since early December - but I go to the doctor tomorrow, and I'm hoping he lifts enough of the restrictions for me to go back to work on Monday. It's not so much that I'm looking forward to work, but disability pay is garbage, and I'd really like to not have to deal with the insurance company anymore. People who like to do everything the hard way piss me off.

For instance, I went to the bank on April 25th to get some cash, but my ATM card wasn't working, so I went inside to make a withdrawal. Two weeks go by, and the money still hasn't been deducted from my checking account, so I go back to the bank and tell the same teller that I think she took the money from someone else's account. She does a search and tells me that the money came from my home equity line of credit. (I didn't know tellers even had access to that account.) I gave her the $200 back to put back in my HELoC and leave. A few days ago I get the statement for the upcoming loan payment and realize that rather than put the money back in as if it never happened, she put the money toward that month's payment. So now my checkbook is off, and my monthly payment is $1.51 a month more, which doesn't sound like much, but over the course of the next 4 years, that's $66 more than I should be paying.

So I e-mail the bank about the issue, and a couple days later I get a reply apologizing for the mistake, and a "Loan Department" phone number to call. I call that number and get the most aggravating automated service I've ever dealt with. (Getting so frustrated, that at one point I threw my phone across the room.) After finally reaching a human being, and another 25 minutes of talk-hold-talk-hold-talk-hold....She agreed that I shouldn't have to pay for their mistake...but she can't fix the problem yet.

I pointed out that if she takes the money from my payment and reapplies it to my balance, I'll end up with a late fee. She realizes I'm right, but she has to wait until I actually incur the late fee, before she can dismiss it, rather than just flag it and prevent it from happening. There's more to the story that I have yet to discover as the world turns. Stay tuned.

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

Morning Pops. Morning Fellas and good morning to all who stop in and check out the thread.

RWB, I hope you get good news Brother, I'm pulling for you!


Jobs, Leon, dbrp, Xelda, zrin, Trouty, ksk, RGV, Coach, RWB, Ranching, SW, John, Jan, Corso and Colo, I hope that all of you are enjoying a great morning.

Everybody, have a great Thursday for tomorrow is Friday and you know what that means!

 

[Runwildboys]

Morning Pops. Morning Fellas and good morning to all who stop in and check out the thread.

RWB, I hope you get good news Brother, I'm pulling for you!


Jobs, Leon, dbrp, Xelda, zrin, Trouty, ksk, RGV, Coach, RWB, Ranching, SW, John, Jan, Corso and Colo, I hope that all of you are enjoying a great morning.

Everybody, have a great Thursday for tomorrow is Friday and you know what that means!

Thanks, brother!

 

[CouchCoach]

Damn, I get up this morning and ask myself 'well, what kind of day is this going to be'? It was a so so day until I read Jan and Runny's posts and it's turned into a better day than I anticipated. And it's not what you think, it isn't because they're having a bad day making mine seem better by comparison, it's because I get to think of two friends having better days and I don't think about me.

Jan, it's going to get better starting tomorrow and Runny, you're getting the green light to start making "damn, I get to go to Manhattan again today" posts.

Never get too used to anything for the times, they are forever changin'. Dylan left out a word. He's a pretty good writer so I'll let it slide this time.

 

[Xelda]

Afternoon Pops and friends. Jan you haven't watched Game of Thrones so I'll let you in on some inside information. Get your letter opener and "Stick them with the pointy end". Solid counselling if you ask me. Runny, we've gone too long without one of your Big Rigs in the City stories.

I had some big plans for today, but haven't accomplished anything. The day's still young. Sort of young. It's not dark yet, so I'm not going to panic. Have a good day everyone.

 

[GrammaJan]

Afternoon Pops and friends. Jan you haven't watched Game of Thrones so I'll let you in on some inside information. Get your letter opener and "Stick them with the pointy end". Solid counselling if you ask me. Runny, we've gone too long without one of your Big Rigs in the City stories.

I had some big plans for today, but haven't accomplished anything. The day's still young. Sort of young. It's not dark yet, so I'm not going to panic. Have a good day everyone.

Not my weapon of choice, but duly noted.

 

[kskboys]

I think it's time to raise my paddle and whack someone with it.

Had my first kid at a young and dumb 20. That's why I get to be a youngish gramma

Can I be first in line?!!!!!!

 

[kskboys]

Morning Pops!

Almost Friday, which may not seem like something I should be excited about, since I haven't worked since early December - but I go to the doctor tomorrow, and I'm hoping he lifts enough of the restrictions for me to go back to work on Monday. It's not so much that I'm looking forward to work, but disability pay is garbage, and I'd really like to not have to deal with the insurance company anymore. People who like to do everything the hard way piss me off.

For instance, I went to the bank on April 25th to get some cash, but my ATM card wasn't working, so I went inside to make a withdrawal. Two weeks go by, and the money still hasn't been deducted from my checking account, so I go back to the bank and tell the same teller that I think she took the money from someone else's account. She does a search and tells me that the money came from my home equity line of credit. (I didn't know tellers even had access to that account.) I gave her the $200 back to put back in my HELoC and leave. A few days ago I get the statement for the upcoming loan payment and realize that rather than put the money back in as if it never happened, she put the money toward that month's payment. So now my checkbook is off, and my monthly payment is $1.51 a month more, which doesn't sound like much, but over the course of the next 4 years, that's $66 more than I should be paying.

So I e-mail the bank about the issue, and a couple days later I get a reply apologizing for the mistake, and a "Loan Department" phone number to call. I call that number and get the most aggravating automated service I've ever dealt with. (Getting so frustrated, that at one point I threw my phone across the room.) After finally reaching a human being, and another 25 minutes of talk-hold-talk-hold-talk-hold....She agreed that I shouldn't have to pay for their mistake...but she can't fix the problem yet.

I pointed out that if she takes the money from my payment and reapplies it to my balance, I'll end up with a late fee. She realizes I'm right, but she has to wait until I actually incur the late fee, before she can dismiss it, rather than just flag it and prevent it from happening. There's more to the story that I have yet to discover as the world turns. Stay tuned.

I'd be more an an ah than you. I'd threaten to report them to the Feds for mismanagement of funds. Or some blather like that.

 

[Runwildboys]

I'd be more an an ah than you. I'd threaten to report them to the Feds for mismanagement of funds. Or some blather like that.

Nah, they'll fix it...once they figure out how to. I've been with this bank for 25 or 30 years, and they've always been really good, even refunding my fees, when I had to use another bank's ATM for whatever reason. Though I do really, really, really hate this automated telephone system, more than any other I've ever dealt with.

 

[kskboys]

45 minutes???? You must have scored a lot more than I did.

Well, I did score w/ that poster of Farrah many many times!!!!!

 

[Runwildboys]

Well, I did score w/ that poster of Farrah many many times!!!!!

And you still had to beg?...Oh wait, was it your brother's poster?

 

[kskboys]

And you still had to beg?...Oh wait, was it your brother's poster?

I still needed foreplay!!!!!

 

[G2]

Well, I did score w/ that poster of Farrah many many times!!!!!

Please Lord let it have been laminated.

I apologize.

 

[kskboys]

Please Lord let it have been laminated.

I apologize.

The sock or the poster?

 

[G2]

The sock or the poster?

My advice is just stay hydrated my friend.

 

[kskboys]

"Dear Dr. Joyce. The other day I walked into my teenage son's room and caught him petting the poodle. What do I do?"

Dr. Joyce: "Knock."

 

[G2]

P.S. I had 2 "wisdom" teeth pulled today.

That's what they called it, I tend to lean toward some sort of harassment, brutality, hate crime abuse. But that's just me. I'm bitter.

Burning structure fire? ---Pfft, I'm in. MVA, I'm your guy.

Dental work, and I'm like sucking my thumb in the fetal, whimpering........


"Wisdom" teeth.
Right.

 

[kskboys]

P.S. I had 2 "wisdom" teeth pulled today.

That's what they called it, I tend to lean toward some sort of harassment, brutality, hate crime abuse. But that's just me. I'm bitter.

Burning structure fire? ---Pfft, I'm in. MVA, I'm your guy.

Dental work, and I'm like sucking my thumb in the fetal, whimpering........


"Wisdom" teeth.
Right.

I'd rather have body parts removed than go to dentist.

 

[G2]

I'd rather have body parts removed than go to dentist.

Same here. I'm 46. I had 2 pulled 20 years ago. My current dentist said they stop progressing in your mid 20's. Explains my inappropriate humor and my "wise acre-ness", because here I am and the other two, which for the record I also did not vote for, are JUST NOW poking through.

Why? What have I done?