Padded Room, take 3

[Mad Madam Mimm]

Dear Mother: I love you, of course I do. But fuck off with your dyson hiroshima before I start raiding dad's tool shed. Seriously. A louder, more annoying noise has never existed.

[Machalllewis]

Dear Father: Your constant snide put downs and passive-aggresive tellings off combined with your constant need to let me know that I'm not welcome in your house is slowly destroying my ego and pushing me into a sea of hatefullness.

[tak197]

Dearest Local Job Market: Felch my crusty asshole.

You expect a casino with NO table games to have a local applicant pool WITH experience in the industry upon the passing of a state law allowing said table games, so you just require it outright? FUCK YOU.

That said could I please at least get an interview or some info on how to get the experience?

[JohnyMcmuffin]

Bleeerrrghhhhh. That is all for now

[operagirl95]

Dear me from yesterday: Never again think or say that anything is going well. Declaw your cats before they puncture their watering station again and soak the floor a second time. And around 7pm, when grabbing your water bottle, DO NOT touch the top/cap of the bottle, as it will break off in your hand and spill on your open laptop. Love, me from today.

[Ottoman]

Dear people who think that cutting off a cat's fingertips is acceptable: go huff a barrel of dongs.

Cheers,
Ottoman

[Arius]

Bye.

[Theremin]

Going somewhere?

[operagirl95]

Dear people who think that cutting off a cat's fingertips is

If I post a pic of my cats you'll see they still have 18 claws each... which is why they can punch holes in 1/4" plastic and flood my kitchen.

Wait... where'd Arius go?

[elvor]

Bye.

er... what?

[Theremin]

Yeah, he's got a webcast in a few hours...and his profile here has been wiped...that's a little odd.

Is he pulling a Cake?

[epocalypse]

I hope he's not. Although, there does appear to have been a bit of unpleasantness. Also, I'd add that cake did not wipe his profile.

[tak197]

There is the possibility that he was challenged to wipe his profile.

[Ottoman]

Not to derail the topic too much, because I know that's how the last one died, but. . .

I think that it's really sad that he's left. Not because I particularly liked him (that is to say, I was indifferent), but because it's a stupid choice in the circumstances. For one, the move to the Escapist should be a time when the community comes together, rather than splitting apart, both to make it through the shift in one piece, and to join in the celebration afterward. And he said that he was afraid for the future of the site, but. . . if he was really a fan, would he not think it better to stick around and hope for the possibility of success, rather than abandon it altogether, or leave out of spite? People making rash decisions is the last thing we need around here, for the native community, the crew, and the newcomers from the Escapist.

I'd bet that I speak for all of us when I say: I have confidence in the crew, and, even if things did somehow go horribly wrong, days, months, or years from now, I'd support them to the end. (And I could write easily three more paragraphs about why, but like I said at the top. . . )

[empath]

Well, shit. I was gonna update things on my financial woes (a little less woeful) and I find this.

Skimming over his latest posts, it almost seems he's going through Seasonal Affective Disorder or something; some kind of funk, maybe. I got a feel he wasn't really attacking anyone, but simply getting depressed and pessimistic and somewhat losing the ability to convey his thoughts in a fully cogent way...and getting upset with himself when misunderstandings inevitably arose.

I sincerely hope he's simply taking a break to clear his head of this 'dark cloud', and will return with his acerbic wit and silly fun in his own time.

...oh, and bacon - gawd, he's GOT to bring back the bacon discussions!!!


...now what's this about Cake?

[gcninja]

dear bank
FUCK YOU, i over draft once and you decide to lock my debit card? ok i understand, but when i talk to the your head person and they tell me FUCK OFF because i only have 83cents in my account because i JUST took out my rent money and still have it in HAND. and THEN tell me even if i drop a THOUSAND dollars in there you still plan on waiting a FUCKING MONTH to restart it, well fuck you. moment i move im going to close my account, walk to your head person, tell them to fuck off and then give you a bad report. I lol at your "its because your accounts news (6months?) and we dont want to chance you going into negative again" YET YOU STILL LET ME USE CHECKS?
that is all

[empath]

dear bank
FUCK YOU, i over draft once and you decide to lock my debit card? ok i understand, but when i talk to the your head person and they tell me FUCK OFF because i only have 83cents in my account because i JUST took out my rent money and still have it in HAND. and THEN tell me even if i drop a THOUSAND dollars in there you still plan on waiting a FUCKING MONTH to restart it, well fuck you. moment i move im going to close my account, walk to your head person, tell them to fuck off and then give you a bad report. I lol at your "its because your accounts news (6months?) and we dont want to chance you going into negative again" YET YOU STILL LET ME USE CHECKS?
that is all

Wait, this happened to you TOO? [Neo-moment] Whoa. [/Neo-moment]

Sunday I made a payment through the atm to throw $60 at my credit card. I'd already made a payment a week before and didn't have the stub I knew it'd need, so I copied out the necessary info onto a piece of paper (financial institution, acct #, amount, cardholder name, date, etc) and put that in the envelope, and my balance was $130.

Monday I paid for take out at twenty-something dollars, leaving me with about a hundred.

Tuesday I try to purchase a jar of pasta sauce at $1.98 and my debit card gets declined, so I pull out a finn and everyone's happy.

...then I go to an ATM to check my balance and transactions to find out why the declined and it eats my card.

So then I gotta work during banking hours until Thurdsay, and Wednesday night the above co-worker calls to see if I can cover his Thursday shift...fine I'll check Friday and wait impatiently to find out ANOTHER day...

So Friday I go in with a bank statement, the receipt from the atm payment and the cash register receipt with the declined debit transaction to ask 'WTF?'

The teller gets my id, fires up the account and finds it flagged to be frozen (for ANY form of transaction) with $160 in it...

...and she can't explain WHY.

The best the two of us could deduce is the clerk who processes atm payments balked at my handwritten stub - the transaction was reversed and the comment was "empty envelope" (maybe the only reasonably-close descriptor of 'insufficient information') and either turned on the flag by accident or by mistake.

She cleared my account, gave me a new debit card, and I went happily on my way.

Now I just have a crippling amount of credit card debt to deal with...

---

gcninja? Your experience reminds me more of what happened a few years back when my wife and I tried to set up a joint account with a different bank for the purpose of more easily paying her US student loan debts. Got the account fine, put some money in, and less than a day left it inactive because it turns out that canadian bank account #s have seven digits, US account #s have nine and the debt collectors couldn't figure out how to set up things to USE our account.

Skip ahead about a year, and I get a letter from that bank notifying me 'it's overdrawn and what are you gonna do about it?'

...wait, waht? Haven't TOUCHED the account since - it should still have $35 in it. Never got statements because of the inactivity.

Checking with them to find out the source of the withdrawls was NOT pleasant; they were slow to provide any info, and generally condecending. Found out these were premium paymentS (yes, it took more than a month to just sort this out) were to someone's Sun Life insurance...dunno who, but I knew it wasn't MINE.

Eventually I had to take it to a manager, who quickly discovered that the payments were done in error because someone entered in the wrong BRANCH number and it was supposed to come out from someone's acct in a diff branch WITH THE OTHERWISE SAME ACCOUNT NUMBER. (Nice and secure, huh?)

They reversed the payments and everything was fine, apparently...until they demanded the $30 for the overdraft charges...

"WAIT. So you're saying that my account got overdrawn because of YOUR BANK'S MISTAKE, and yet I'M responsible to PAY YOU for the charges relating to YOUR mistake???

FINE, here's FORTY IN CASH; apply it to the account, then CLOSE THE FUCKING ACCOUNT. I never want to have ANY dealings with you lot again!!"

And this was in front of the teller and manager at the wicket.

And I've never gone into a ....er...ah FUCKIT - I'll say their damned name - they DESERVE the bad press, even years later: I've never gone into a CIBC - Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce - since, and my life has been better for it.

[Katie]

On the plus side, I'm glad my student account has a free overdraft, otherwise I would have currently be experiencing what it feels like to be financially screwed for seven months.

On the down side, I got a chest infection over a week before Christmas, got antibiotics from my home doctor, who isn't my uni doctor and who therefore has none of my notes. These antibiotics succeeded in making me somewhat well, reducing my cough and the amount of disgusting stuff I was coughing up, but the course ended before the disgusting stuff was totally banished.

Now it's back, it's yellow again, I coughed up freaking SOLIDS this morning and I can't get an appointment until Monday at the earliest.

Also, I have asthma, and my reliever is running down in the red. Not good, what with the lung-clenching cold and aforementioned chest infection.

At least this year I have housemates who believe in switching the central heating on in the winter...

[elvor]

Dear snow:

Please fuck right off. Now. You were fun for about a day, but at this point just walking along a pavement is proving far too difficult, and I have places to be.

[theDreamer]

Dear snow:

Please fuck right off. Now. You were fun for about a day, but at this point just walking along a pavement is proving far too difficult, and I have places to be.

Despite being way more used to copious amounts of snow, that is such a QFT.

Stupid snow.

Though worse are the winds. I _hate_ wind chill, the bastard.

[Master Gunner]

Ugh, why did you have to bring up the CIBC empath? I'm still heavily considering firebombing the Keswick, Ontario branch.

[Genghis Ares]

Our opponents in our weekly bowling league didn't show up, they will bowl later and we'll compare. But for today, it sort of forces use to bowl faster and as a result we pretty much blew. I was a good 20 pins below my average. And we're in 5th place too. Fucking pins and their not falling down when I hit them!

[Shinoki]

Dear computer. Why do you have to be so damn difficult sometimes? I thought I was doing you a favour by buying you a nice shiny new hard drive, but apparently you do not want to make installation of this hard drive easy on me. Instead of plugging in nice and easy you decide that the power cable to my boot HD should fall out without me knowing. That when when I boot my computer it all of a sudden starts trying to recover a partition that I thought I had formatted over. Then when I realize the old drive's cable had just fallen out and fix the boot order fixed, you decide to be sly and let the power cable to the new drive fall out from the PSU, making me freak out again because once something gets fixed, another thing gets broken. So I finally get the hardware side of things figured out, only to forget this is a raw unpartitioned drive, and then being unable to find the damned disk manager feature in Windows 7. You know I was going to get you an awesome new video card for free from someone I know who works at ATI, but after this, and the RAM BS... I don't think you deserve it.

Ugh, why did you have to bring up the CIBC empath? I'm still heavily considering firebombing the Keswick, Ontario branch.

You should just firebomb all of Keswick ON. Dirty horrid place.

[Master Gunner]

Haven't being there since I was 7, but I cannot argue with that sentiment.

[Mad Madam Mimm]

Dear Snow- Fuck off.
Dear people who were supposed to be giving me a lift to uni- the snow is fucking off. Please don't leave me in the arse end of nowhere for another half a week. I can't last here til thursday, I'm getting fed up. I'M A STUDENT, GET ME OUT OF HERE!!!