Follies

[desperance]

Okay, look. It's a known response and I'm not at all surprised about it - but when the crisis is in part financial, it really would help if my reaction were not to spend money, y'know...?

I went to town to write and pay money into the bank. I came home with the money (which I forgot to pay in, again) and one page of story; and:

a book
a kilo of cherry tomatoes
cured meats
three t-shirts
a ball of string w/ dispenser

How much of that did I need? Um, none, for any measure of need with which I am familiar.

Oh, and I came home to a letter telling me that my bank account was to be debited £11,000 next week. It, um, doesn't actually contain £11, let alone the thousands. I had to phone India to get them to admit it was a mistake, bah humbeg. And I will still be watching my account on the 14th, just in case. I'd hate to have them take it anyway, and me not notice...

Comments

[stevegreen.livejournal.com]

Was the £11K an amount you were expecting to pay at some point, or is your bank just collecting contributions early for its xmas party?

[desperance.livejournal.com]

They said "the letter was sent out in error." Yup. I could've told them that. The only time I ever paid anybody that kind of money - or indeed ever expect to! - I was buying a house. The proper amount they're meant to take is £40.

[stevegreen.livejournal.com]

That's some error.

[martyn44.livejournal.com]

Are you, perhaps, Mr Sumner in disguise?

Humbeg? Is that some rare Indian spice of which only the truly cognoscent - like yourself - have ever, well, cognosed?

[bluehairsue.livejournal.com]

You know, my bank did once accidentally withdraw £50,000 from my current account and sent me a letter to say I was overdrawn... When I arrived on the doorstep to give them the polite-speak version of wtf are you playing at? They blamed it on "computer error" and said if it happened again I could keep the money. I'm hoping...

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Never mind hoping - now is the time to take action! Have a friend take a job with said bank, let them make such another error in your favour, and behold! It's yours! (And then split the profit with said friend, obviously...)

(My own long-term pension/survival plan involves my catastrophically libelling a friend in a high-profile publication. They will then sue me and the publication indiscriminately. Obviously, I have no money and can pay them nothing, but they will reap vast profits from the publication. Which they will then split with me. Yay...!)