Just got off the phone with the utility company who said I “wrote a bad check” and therefore couldn’t get an extension. What actually happened is that I had more than enough money in my account on the 9th and it took them 6 whole days to withdraw the money, at which point I was $20 short and the whole thing got returned. In the meantime, I spent the remainder of the money because it showed it as processing for nearly a week before disappearing and I got no indication that it hadn’t gone through for another 3 days. I needed groceries so I got groceries. So I’m now $270 short and it’s looking like I’m just gonna be without electric and water from Monday-Thursday. Gotta love it. When we called we made a point of staying calm and explaining what happened and the person just kept saying, “You wrote a bad check” over and over. We don’t even have a check book. And when my partner started crying the rep just hung up.
So that’s how my day’s going.
love getting read the litany of bad check writing because there can be no solutions, just the assignment of blame