Thursday, May 23, 2013

Sorry! Tonight, I am sounding off on things that irk me.



Have you ever wondered if the bank that you have been dealing with since… forever, ever talks to itself?
Or if people actually read what you post?
And I don’t mean just this blog, but other stuff you see online that looks interesting and may be of benefit to everyone besides just you?
I mean if they had it wouldn’t appear that they have no reading comprehension what-so-ever!
A couple of cases in point, our famous and at sometimes also considered by the news media to be notorious bank, Bank of America, did it again, just over the last few weeks…
And yes, they are the bank we refinanced with and saved a couple of percentage points with and a few months from our past one with, off our now newer mortgage that we will be saving us just over $77 a month as well. They had someone send us a congratulation that we paid off our mortgage, huh? We refinanced with them and I wish that were the case… any-who that’s not all… since Hubby was a deputy from 1995 and we did a direct deposit of income and continued all these years with his pension and his social security and now mine too, which entitles you to free checking, which we have not had to pay for forever … I checked our account earlier this week and there was a charge of $25, which stated it was a monthly service charge for our Advantage Checking account, which we get a small amount of interest on, literally pennies a month!
And thankfully, I am on our online accounts that is all of them daily, and so I called and questioned the charge… and the young woman started to say something about it being our only account with them and I said oh really we have four different ones with you and I rattled them off, plus we have direct deposit!
She said, oh I see that here… and then she apologized, hmm? And stated it would be removed immediately, and it was!
If I wasn’t so diligent and checked so obsessively, would I be told or would they go merrily on doing this sort of thing?
Makes one wonder, hmm?
Apparently, if we did not have the refinance with them they wouldn’t have given us the benefit of the doubt, since she started to say you no longer have your mortgage with us, huh?
The closing was on April 22 and everything is electronic and they had not entered that info by this past Monday, May 20?
Someone there needs to make their system more efficient… in reality I have told them that since they absorbed every bank that we have been with since moving to Florida, starting with Barnett Bank back in 1986, I say that is why we have been with you all these years, and not necessarily by choice.
Every-time, we thought of changing we were still going here or there, traveling and they were the only ones whose ATM’s were everywhere and free!
And so, we plodded along and here we are nearly twenty-seven years later with the monster who swallowed the little guys and they still can’t remember squat.
Oh well…

Moving on…
Okay, I too have been not reading all the posts by my Facebook friends either and have been known to comment on them with just reading the titles, oops, did I say that out loud? And my commentary has been embarrassing if I caught the training flow of the comments after not having to do with anything I thought it was about… I do try to rectify what I said or delete it, easy, breezy and not entirely honest…Oops, coming from a person who prides herself on taking honesty too far at times, all of the time, the get me in trouble times!
Well, now you know, since I confessed, still honest to a fault, hmm?

Now with that said, this time I think it could be dangerous because I posted an article about dangerous lead found in green tea coming from China, (So much from them has lead in it, amazing that their population is so high, you would think it would cause too many deaths there way too often?) yep, it’s in their ground there, any-who, I do believe that the commenter that left a response was not aware of what the article was getting at, the toxicity of some green teas.
The other thing is a comment about how gloomy it is when a home is shuttered if you are closing up for a possible hurricane hit, well, we close them up and sometimes evacuate, and if we do stay we uncover them after the danger has passed! Either way, eventually within hours the homes are opened, unless a person is a snowbird and they are not in them anyway, so who cares how gloomy they are, hmm?
Is it me?
Or is the world odd?
Don’t answer that unless it is a no for the first question and a yes for the second one…


On those off my chest pronouncements allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share all those overages with all who need you to and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

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