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At least vous better look, because I have no idea where it is.
TWICE this week, I managed to deposit checks into the wrong business account. Blessedly, I discovered the first of these when randomly checking my balances last night (yes, I check account balances on Friday nights; don't get out much here) and managed to transfer the funds to the right place before any business checks went bouncy-bouncy. Then, this morning, the balance was still $500 off. As in exactly $500 off. Turns out, I did the same damn thing the previous day. That's now corrected, and my two deposit-slip books now have LARGE DESIGNATIONS to prevent this sort of nonsense from occurring again.
What that won't stop me from, though, is pulling my other Stupid Human Trick of the week, which was paying the cable bill twice in January. That resulted in two other checks, posted earlier in the day as cleared and with a still-positive remaining balance, turning into a $200-plus negative balance on account of them reordering the queue and nicking me for two $38.50 fees on checks they'd already paid (as opposed to not paying the second cable bill, which would have cost me exactly 0 at the cable company).
Overall, it's a good bank, and I probably won't bitch to them about it, but I'm going to have to double- and triple-check especially my electronic transactions, because I'm just getting too scatterbrained to remember when I've hit that button more than once. And it's one more reason why that "going paperless" schtick of theirs isn't all it's cracked up to be.
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At least I know I'm not the only one with the stupids. On the way to and eventually at that bank, I almost got hit on three different occasions. Two of them were idiots blithely backing out into traffic from their driveway (the first) or their parking-lot space (the second), while the third guy nearly T-boned me, me driving straight through a driving lane in the bank lot as he was cutting diagonally across two rows of parking spaces. And HE honked at ME after our almost-meeting!
Don't make me angry, drivers. Especially around local banking establishments.
Even stupider than them, though, was making the mistake of tuning in to a radio station on the way home and hearing the weekend nutjob host, in full Birther frenzy, going on about how Obama is clearly not entitled to be President due to language in an 1875 Supreme Court decision titled Minor v. Happersett. This case said, in passing, that the US-born child of US citizens was clearly a "natural born citizen," but it specifically did not answer the Big Birther Question of whether a US-born child not born to US citizens also was. No, kids, that answer came, clearly and definitively, 23 years later in the Supremes' subsequent United States v. Wong Kim Ark decision, which stated that US-born citizens, AND non-US-born children of US citizens, were both natural born. That's the problem with the nutjobs, though; they're so easily confused by the facts.
Crazy Host Lady then broke for news in the middle of her rant, teased her upcoming live interview with Orly Taitz herself, and then, after the newscast, did a Farmers & Artisans commercial. I hadn't eaten, or I would have lost my lunch.
TWICE this week, I managed to deposit checks into the wrong business account. Blessedly, I discovered the first of these when randomly checking my balances last night (yes, I check account balances on Friday nights; don't get out much here) and managed to transfer the funds to the right place before any business checks went bouncy-bouncy. Then, this morning, the balance was still $500 off. As in exactly $500 off. Turns out, I did the same damn thing the previous day. That's now corrected, and my two deposit-slip books now have LARGE DESIGNATIONS to prevent this sort of nonsense from occurring again.
What that won't stop me from, though, is pulling my other Stupid Human Trick of the week, which was paying the cable bill twice in January. That resulted in two other checks, posted earlier in the day as cleared and with a still-positive remaining balance, turning into a $200-plus negative balance on account of them reordering the queue and nicking me for two $38.50 fees on checks they'd already paid (as opposed to not paying the second cable bill, which would have cost me exactly 0 at the cable company).
Overall, it's a good bank, and I probably won't bitch to them about it, but I'm going to have to double- and triple-check especially my electronic transactions, because I'm just getting too scatterbrained to remember when I've hit that button more than once. And it's one more reason why that "going paperless" schtick of theirs isn't all it's cracked up to be.
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At least I know I'm not the only one with the stupids. On the way to and eventually at that bank, I almost got hit on three different occasions. Two of them were idiots blithely backing out into traffic from their driveway (the first) or their parking-lot space (the second), while the third guy nearly T-boned me, me driving straight through a driving lane in the bank lot as he was cutting diagonally across two rows of parking spaces. And HE honked at ME after our almost-meeting!
Don't make me angry, drivers. Especially around local banking establishments.
Even stupider than them, though, was making the mistake of tuning in to a radio station on the way home and hearing the weekend nutjob host, in full Birther frenzy, going on about how Obama is clearly not entitled to be President due to language in an 1875 Supreme Court decision titled Minor v. Happersett. This case said, in passing, that the US-born child of US citizens was clearly a "natural born citizen," but it specifically did not answer the Big Birther Question of whether a US-born child not born to US citizens also was. No, kids, that answer came, clearly and definitively, 23 years later in the Supremes' subsequent United States v. Wong Kim Ark decision, which stated that US-born citizens, AND non-US-born children of US citizens, were both natural born. That's the problem with the nutjobs, though; they're so easily confused by the facts.
Crazy Host Lady then broke for news in the middle of her rant, teased her upcoming live interview with Orly Taitz herself, and then, after the newscast, did a Farmers & Artisans commercial. I hadn't eaten, or I would have lost my lunch.