When the punishment fits the crime is a lesson learned?

[susandennis]

I discovered this morning that I sent money, via Bill Pay, to a closed account by accident. On the Capital One website, I paid the amount to a closed Capital One Visa instead of to the open Capital One Mastercard account I intended.

Contrary to what Jennifer Garner may lead you to believe, dealing with Capital One is not easy or fun or satisfying in any way.

I spent 10 minutes with a woman who was difficult to understand but making headway, when she hung up on me. I called back and, over the course of the next 25 minutes and three people who were difficult to understand PLUS a good 15 minutes of crackly annoying jazz music, I may or may not have 'filed a claim' to get the money back.

All the while I'm thinking that 1. thank goodness I 'paid' a closed account and 2. This is the price you pay for being stupid. It's horrible and painful and stretches every patience muscle to ensure you never ever ever make this mistake again. I cannot believe I ever will.

Biggie just brought in his bird du jour. Yesterday he brought one in and would not give it up. Today's the same. Gross Gross Gross. I just hope that when the leaves on the tree go, so will those stupid stupid birds.

So.. happy Monday!!

The Mariners lost yesterday so baseball is over for me until February. On the up side, the money I paid for post season tickets will go into my account and the bill for next year's ticket will be 90% paid when it comes due in November.

Oh and I also sent an email to kill the 870 channels that I had to purchase to get the Mariners on TV. That will save me a bundle.

Today is chair day! Macy's says they will be here between 10:30 and noon:30 this morning.

And now my internet just dropped off. Here's hoping the phone's hotspot will get this posted. This punishment is moving into overkill territory!

Comments

[bill-schubert.livejournal.com]

This must be dealing with huge entities day. I'm on chat w/ Google trying to find out the status of my Trade-in phone that I sent week before last and am fielding calls from my CPAP supply company who already emailed me and texted me with the same info. And I didn't do anything wrong. Yet.

[susandennis]

keep your nose clean — pay back's a bitch

[bill-schubert.livejournal.com]

Keep yo, yo own self

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

You're not stupid! It's an honest mistake.

[rsc.livejournal.com]

jwg's mother once put her rent check and the payment for her phone bill (or some utility, it was a long time ago) in each others' envelopes. The rental agency was immediately all over her for the underpaid rent, but she had a hard time getting the utility company to accept that no, she really didn't mean to pay for two years in advance (or whatever it would have been).

[rsc.livejournal.com]

,And now my internet just dropped off

Apparently there's some worldwide internet outage. I can get at LJ and espn.com (the only other things I've tried so far) but not Facebook, which puts a major hole in my day (or in tomorrow, when I'll make a stab at getting caught up).

[susandennis]

Yeah. Mine got fixed when I rebooted the modem... maybe Mark Zukerburg should do the same to his!

[rsc.livejournal.com]

Yeah, well, that's probably a different problem. jwg read on his computer a little while ago "Major worldwide internet outage" or words to that effect. (He was, weirdly, able to get Facebook on his phone; I haven't tried that yet.)

[richaarde.livejournal.com]

So which is worse, Biggie attacking your hand every day or Biggie catching birds every day?

[susandennis]

It's a draw