The other day I got a massage, my first real massage since I’d seen Jeff last November. This time I stole one of Ben’s massage appointments and I went to Liam at Inewmed, where before I even got to disrobe and relax, I was accused of giving the whole office swine flu! But the last time I was there was October 29, and I didn’t get sick until November 11, but they were all sick the week before that, so who is right? Me. Who got who sick? Not me. Actually, looking at a calendar and considering contagion horizons… Inewmed got ME sick!
The massage was pretty good aside from Liam’s very depressing conclusion: “you’re not going to get anywhere without weekly body work.” Well, f— you too was my first thought, followed quickly by sigh, I’m doomed. Maybe I’ll call my mom.
Separate story, 7 years ago I moved to San Francisco and opened a bank account at Washington Mutual. I remember crying at the teller when she told me I couldn’t make any withdrawals for two weeks for security reasons. Well how am I supposed to pay rent and eat, sniffle sniff, and I just moved here, sniffle sniff… the conversation went something like that, and I guess it got sorted out because I did stay housed and fed. Then a few years later, through my investment-firm job I got an account with First Republic Bank, which gave me big-wig perks like reimbursement of ATM fees anywhere in the world, and no minimum balance. That ATM fees thing was HUGE! Talk about a perk. But, I got a letter in the mail recently saying that those perks were going away as of January 31, 2010, and I would have to keep a minimum balance that is basically half of my annual income these days if I don’t want to pay a fee for that account. No amount of emailing or phone calling got anyone to even respond, let alone talk about the change to my account, so: Time to find a new bank. In the meantime, my WaMu account got taken over by Chase, and my mailing address was probably 3 addresses ago because I haven’t heard boo from them in years, but I had some old checks in my bottomless purse, so maybe that would be enough. I certainly never closed the account – way too much effort!
I walked in to my local Chase branch yesterday and they re-opened my WaMu account, and it’s still a free checking account with free checks and no minimum balance! The whole process took about 5 minutes and there were definitely no tears, way to go Court. And, way to go, Chase!
Final sort-of-related turn of events: Then when I got home from work, I found a letter from the IRS saying that I did my taxes all wrong and I will be getting a $760.39 refund. Which means, maybe I can sort of afford regular body work after all…”anywhere”, here I come!
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this one time wamu decided they were going to “upgrade” everyones credit and debit cards only like they did it automatically without telling you. and maybe i missed the junk mail looking letter that was supposed to inform me, but all of a sudden my card connected to the account was getting denied and i couldnt get cash out. and they were liek well its going to take 5-7 business days to get this sorted out. and i was liek how am i suppose to eat and the woman said ‘i dunno, write checks’
which pissed me off so much that i withdrew all my cash and walked across the street to open a new account.
so.