Sep 23, 2004 14:02
To much is going on...I just don't know where to begin. The main thing on my mind right now are the idiots at the collection agency where my AT&T account went after I didn't pay for 4 months. I know I know, I'm irresponsible, i needn't be told that anymore, trust me. So anyway, i finally have the money to pay it off so i give them a call and pay the account with my new credit card. Done deal right?...ummm no. Two weeks later they start calling my parents house every day leaving harassing messages about the credit card being declined and me needing to pay the bill right away. What confuses me is that it's completely impossible for the card to have bounced since there's like $1200 on it right now. So they somehow screwed it up. After several HOURS on the phone today I finally got in touch with someone who had a clue what was going on; be it my luck it had to be this annoying loud and direct black lady from southern georgia. She said that the card had been declined for some reason and that the bill still had to be paid. I told her to run the card again but she said it would take to long...whatever that meant. then I asked if she'd take my debit card (an acceptable form of payment for 99.99999999999999% of other companies and merchants) and she said that they couldn't accept debit cards but did say that i could give her a check over the phone...but i didn't have checks and really don't want to deal with that hassle. Then she said that i could go to western union and wire the money to them, but why would i do that since it costs like 10% above what your sending. so i told her the only way i would pay is if they accepted my debit or credit card, told her to talk it over with her boss, then hung up.
At the same time I'm having to deal with some problems with christina (won't go into that but i think it'll be alright), go to school full time(13h), work 40 hours a week at harcourt, deal with all my other bills, deal with trying to be at home enough to keep ~them happy and be at christina's enough to keep her happy, deal with being fat and having to work out constantly and adhere to a "better" diet, and finally deal with my p.o.s. car. I'm sorry...I'm venting, this stuff's been building up and it never seems to go away. I just hope that one day I can get it all settled and just relax with a clear conscience.