Where at least I can eat chocolate covered bacon! And I gladly stand up, …But seriously, we need to have this at our next BBQ.
And I won't forget the men who died,
Who gave that right to me.
Next to you, and defend my chocolate covered bacon.
'Cause there ain't no doubt I love this land,
God bless the USA.
Ok, so I got 3 emails in the last hour and a half telling me that the comment form was broken. Sorry about that. It should be fixed now. Feel free to comment on today's (previous) post with your thoughts, and feel free to comment on this post with your bickering about me breaking stuff.
A couple of months ago, I got a letter in the mail from my bank. They informed me that one of the online merchants I had used was compromised, and my card number had likely been acquired; which is why they were blocking that card and issuing me a new one, included in the letter. My bank is pretty cool. I do wish they had disclosed which merchant had screwed up so that I could avoid them in the future (or call and chew them out), but what are you going to do? (Call and ask? Pff, that would take effort.)
The bad thing though, was that I had given that card number to various companies to automatically charge me for recurring services. Things like my gym membership and my FiOS internet service that I love so much. This didn't occur to me until I started getting letters letting me know I was behind on my payments. Whoops!
Except Verizon never mailed, never called… made no apparant attempt to contact me. They just shut my service off in the middle of the night, about 3 weeks ago. I called and explained what happened, gave them my new card number, and had the service turned back on within a few hours.
They called on Wednesday afternoon, at least 3 weeks after the fact, to let me know that my account was behind and if I didn't rectify the situation, my service was in danger of being shut off. And it wasn't like something got lost in a paper trail somewhere, this was a computer recording. How a computer calls you a month late is beyond me, but it happened.
Thanks, Verizon!
