It all started when my husband and I decided to take a stand and change banks due to their rising fees. Easy, right? We opened the new checking account, are ready to close the old one.
Problem one - totally my fault - forgot that new bank held my deposit for ten days, while I joyfully paid my bills. Oops. Okay, no checks bounced, all but one NSF fee reversed.
Problem two - debit cards have not yet arrived, two and a half weeks later. Could swear the nice lady said a week to ten days.
Okay, will write checks or use cash.
So after a really long day at work, where everyone and their mother wanted me to do something for them, I stop at the old Walmart for the elegant items of cookies and rat poison. Not to have together; and the poison is for outdoor rats on farmland, so it isn't as bad as it sounds.
My check is declined by the Walmart "telecheck" thingie. I have no cash. I have no debit card yet. I call the 800 number to be told by a machine that the check was declined and they don't know why. (This IS the number to call to find out why check was declined, by the by). I tell nice Walmart boy to hold my order while I run to the bank.
I have 7 minutes to make it to the drive thru before they close. I drop my cell phone in the parking lot. I make it to the drive thru and shout thru the tube to the nice teller what has happened. She checks. Says no reason the check should have been declined - nothing wrong with account, plenty of funds available.
I get cash. Try to return my daughter's call. Phone is not working. When I dropped it, I guess something happened. I can now text, but cannot hear other person. They, I found out, can hear me, which makes it quite amusing for them.
Went back, paid cash for rat poison and cookies and came home.
Another fun filled, Lisa Douglas (my Green Acres self) day. Back on the old farm I am now drinking 4 ounces of wine - the remaining Weight Watchers points I have for today.
Have a fun night all!!
