The Vent

[IR5FORMUMSIE 850]

Well they did add my name HOWEVER, it wont show till next billing cycle (April 15th) and I am sending my AOS and all on the 8th come hell or highwater.

So i basically refused to get off the phone with them till I got to somone with Higher Authority , (I am what they would consider a "difficult Client" my ### if I could get Customer Service I wuldnt be LOL). He finally told me to come in and he would see what he could do. Grrrrr

Did you hear about the old lady in WA that went into Comcast with a hammer and crashed the teller's window and god knows what else? it was hilarious.

Even if you don't have both names in yet, send copies of the ones you have - showing same address.

Good luck sister!

As long as you weren't charged Len. Mumsie's opinion of Comcast? I only have one thing to say, Omerta.

BTW Steph, you can try to go in person and see if you can get a current bill with your name on it. It has worked on occasion, even without the hammer.

Azzzzz. It wasn't me I've heard however that she was somehow related to Laura, cuzz there was a foul smell all around when she entered Comcast headquarters

And Omerta is indeed, THE word.

Shame on you, trying to bring poor Laura into odium....too late. Stinky twin powers activate, form of a ####### blossom...

[Carlawarla 1]

Blaaaaaah. Homesick woes. It's gotten to the point where Bee has offered to give me a ticket home for the weekend. Not like we can afford it either so it would mean that we'd be eating oatmeal for weeks

Awwww Nini! Big hugs for you! Bee is so sweet! Now I could eat oatmeal and cream of wheat all week without being given a plant ticket!

[SpiritAlight 1]

You are all hilarious.

And stinky.

Phew!

Am I in The Vent thread?

Check!

Okay here goes:

After my Battle with the Wallpaper, it is over.

It has won.

And I have won.

Ha!

I, for the first time in my life am giving up...giving in...to what is and what will never be. Bahaha!

That wallpaper either needs dynamite or for the walls to be replaced (which BTW I can do).

However, I did do half that large room (it is an attic style) and after realizing that I was loathing doing it, and in turn loathing this house, I decided I had better stop in order to not completely destroy any spark left in my (still new) relationship: with my sweetie, with this house, with this city.

So

I gave up.

Let it be known.

My fear was that I can never give up on anything because that meant I would be giving up on me.

Strange I know...it's metaphysical.

(Oh if you could peer into my brain...run run run away!!!)

I will be calling someone to come and give me an estimate on how much to finish it and to prep for paint.

The walls are a disaster underneath...too much for me to tackle alone.

And I do have refurbishing experience...homes/boats.

Ya Basta!

Plus with us planning on leaving ASAP, it is time to let others finish it and come and redo the entire bathroom while we are away.

That would be so awesome. Put it for sale/rent, and move downtown with less head-aches/woes.

I must vacate the burbs!

Yes.

Edited March 28, 2008 by SpiritAlight

[trailmix 77]

You are all hilarious.

And stinky.

Phew!

Am I in The Vent thread?

Check!

No worries Spirit, you gave it the college try!

So, in the interests of - something - I am going to tell more of the RBC story.

My Husband went in to the bank on Wednesday, to see Marco, Marco insisted that one of us had to come in to deposit our U.S. draft that we had from closing our 'Borderless' account with our 'real' bank, the TD.

I told Marco I would not be coming in, just my Husband as we are quite busy, as he can imagine.....no problem.

So my Husband takes in:

- Bank Draft from TD - U.S. dollars.

- Print out from TD that we have closed our U.S. account and taken the money in a draft.

- Receipt from TD for the draft

- Our Borderless account bank statment from December (he wanted this, as mentioned earlier, I don't know what this proves).

One HOUR later Husband leaves the bank, we now have an RBC U.S. dollar account as well! The theory is:

- Deposit bank draft in RBC U.S. dollar account

- Draft clears in 5 days (he made a point of mentioning to my Husband that it would take 5 days - he even printed it out - the regulations - and showed it to him).

- We then transfer the money in to the Centura account, pick up our bank cards in Nebraska - all good.

Then Marco calls yesterday, I pick up the phone and he asks to speak to my Husband.

Slight glitch - they are going to hold your money for 15 days!!

Blah blah blah. Ok I'm furious at this point, so after the bank guy babbles on for several minutes I grab the phone from my Husband and hang up

So bank guy calls back and I answer, he says something like 'I don't know why the phone cut out like that but anyway....you didn't come in with your Husband yesterday, I didn't know you weren't going to come in?? -blah blah blah'.

That was when I lost my cool. I told him exactly how I felt about how he had handled this whole thing. I told him I needed to speak with the bank manager.

Long story short - I spoke with her yesterday and gave her a reference (bank manager) at our TD bank branch. She said to me (she is a very reasonable woman and I don't think she actually had the whole story before I spoke to her), that she is going to call our bank manager at TD (luckily I had her contact info as she wrote the bank letter we had to send with the affidavit of support).

According to the bank guy they are holding the money due to 'U.S. banking regulations'. Whether this is accurate or not I don't know at this point - they keep saying how we are new customers to RBC.

Anyway, RBC bank manager has left me voice mail to call her, so I guess I will and see what they have come up with.

Edited March 28, 2008 by trailmix

[Carlawarla 1]

You are all hilarious.

And stinky.

Phew!

Am I in The Vent thread?

Check!

No worries Spirit, you gave it the college try!

So, in the interests of - something - I am going to tell more of the RBC story.

My Husband went in to the bank on Wednesday, to see Marco, Marco insisted that one of us had to come in to deposit our U.S. draft that we had from closing our 'Borderless' account with our 'real' bank, the TD.

I told Marco I would not be coming in, just my Husband as we are quite busy, as he can imagine.....no problem.

So my Husband takes in:

- Bank Draft from TD - U.S. dollars.

- Print out from TD that we have closed our U.S. account and taken the money in a draft.

- Receipt from TD for the draft

- Our Borderless account bank statment from December (he wanted this, as mentioned earlier, I don't know what this proves).

One HOUR later Husband leaves the bank, we now have an RBC U.S. dollar account as well! The theory is:

- Deposit bank draft in RBC U.S. dollar account

- Draft clears in 5 days (he made a point of mentioning to my Husband that it would take 5 days - he even printed it out - the regulations - and showed it to him).

- We then transfer the money in to the Centura account, pick up our bank cards in Nebraska - all good.

Then Marco calls yesterday, I pick up the phone and he asks to speak to my Husband.

Slight glitch - they are going to hold your money for 15 days!!

Blah blah blah. Ok I'm furious at this point, so after the bank guy babbles on for several minutes I grab the phone from my Husband and hang up

So bank guy calls back and I answer, he says something like 'I don't know why the phone cut out like that but anyway....you didn't come in with your Husband yesterday, I didn't know you weren't going to come in?? -blah blah blah'.

That was when I lost my cool. I told him exactly how I felt about how he had handled this whole thing. I told him I needed to speak with the bank manager.

Long story short - I spoke with her yesterday and gave her a reference (bank manager) at our TD bank branch. She said to me (she is a very reasonable woman and I don't think she actually had the whole story before I spoke to her), that she is going to call our bank manager at TD (luckily I had her contact info as she wrote the bank letter we had to send with the affidavit of support).

According to the bank guy they are holding the money due to 'U.S. banking regulations'. Whether this is accurate or not I don't know at this point - they keep saying how we are new customers to RBC.

Anyway, RBC bank manager has left me voice mail to call her, so I guess I will and see what they have come up with.

The saga continues! This story gets more bizarre each day! I LOVE that you hung up on Marco. Keep us updated!

[Flames9_RN 358]

Wow, what a pain!! I transfered over $20,000 with customhouse.com and never had a problem. The $$$ was transferred over in the normal 3-4 business day time frame. Hope you get it all settled out

[Chica Yeyé 41]

You are all hilarious.

And stinky.

Phew!

Am I in The Vent thread?

Check!

No worries Spirit, you gave it the college try!

So, in the interests of - something - I am going to tell more of the RBC story.

My Husband went in to the bank on Wednesday, to see Marco, Marco insisted that one of us had to come in to deposit our U.S. draft that we had from closing our 'Borderless' account with our 'real' bank, the TD.

I told Marco I would not be coming in, just my Husband as we are quite busy, as he can imagine.....no problem.

So my Husband takes in:

- Bank Draft from TD - U.S. dollars.

- Print out from TD that we have closed our U.S. account and taken the money in a draft.

- Receipt from TD for the draft

- Our Borderless account bank statment from December (he wanted this, as mentioned earlier, I don't know what this proves).

One HOUR later Husband leaves the bank, we now have an RBC U.S. dollar account as well! The theory is:

- Deposit bank draft in RBC U.S. dollar account

- Draft clears in 5 days (he made a point of mentioning to my Husband that it would take 5 days - he even printed it out - the regulations - and showed it to him).

- We then transfer the money in to the Centura account, pick up our bank cards in Nebraska - all good.

Then Marco calls yesterday, I pick up the phone and he asks to speak to my Husband.

Slight glitch - they are going to hold your money for 15 days!!

Blah blah blah. Ok I'm furious at this point, so after the bank guy babbles on for several minutes I grab the phone from my Husband and hang up

So bank guy calls back and I answer, he says something like 'I don't know why the phone cut out like that but anyway....you didn't come in with your Husband yesterday, I didn't know you weren't going to come in?? -blah blah blah'.

That was when I lost my cool. I told him exactly how I felt about how he had handled this whole thing. I told him I needed to speak with the bank manager.

Long story short - I spoke with her yesterday and gave her a reference (bank manager) at our TD bank branch. She said to me (she is a very reasonable woman and I don't think she actually had the whole story before I spoke to her), that she is going to call our bank manager at TD (luckily I had her contact info as she wrote the bank letter we had to send with the affidavit of support).

According to the bank guy they are holding the money due to 'U.S. banking regulations'. Whether this is accurate or not I don't know at this point - they keep saying how we are new customers to RBC.

Anyway, RBC bank manager has left me voice mail to call her, so I guess I will and see what they have come up with.

The saga continues! This story gets more bizarre each day! I LOVE that you hung up on Marco. Keep us updated!

Me thinks Marco needs to be dealt with promptly.... :devil: :devil:

[Delicia 1]

This last 30 days of my 6 month wait for CSC is going to kill me, I just know it!!! I am already planning for calling the Senator's office and trying to gauge how long it takes them to get info back from USCIS. Think I have a negative attitude much?

[SpiritAlight 1]

This last 30 days of my 6 month wait for CSC is going to kill me, I just know it!!! I am already planning for calling the Senator's office and trying to gauge how long it takes them to get info back from USCIS. Think I have a negative attitude much?

Who can blame you?

[Chica Yeyé 41]

This last 30 days of my 6 month wait for CSC is going to kill me, I just know it!!! I am already planning for calling the Senator's office and trying to gauge how long it takes them to get info back from USCIS. Think I have a negative attitude much?

Who can blame you?

Agreed. Call the dude Delicia - he/she needs to earn his/her salary by serving voters!

[IR5FORMUMSIE 850]

You are all hilarious.

And stinky.

Phew!

Am I in The Vent thread?

Check!

No worries Spirit, you gave it the college try!

So, in the interests of - something - I am going to tell more of the RBC story.

My Husband went in to the bank on Wednesday, to see Marco, Marco insisted that one of us had to come in to deposit our U.S. draft that we had from closing our 'Borderless' account with our 'real' bank, the TD.

I told Marco I would not be coming in, just my Husband as we are quite busy, as he can imagine.....no problem.

So my Husband takes in:

- Bank Draft from TD - U.S. dollars.

- Print out from TD that we have closed our U.S. account and taken the money in a draft.

- Receipt from TD for the draft

- Our Borderless account bank statment from December (he wanted this, as mentioned earlier, I don't know what this proves).

One HOUR later Husband leaves the bank, we now have an RBC U.S. dollar account as well! The theory is:

- Deposit bank draft in RBC U.S. dollar account

- Draft clears in 5 days (he made a point of mentioning to my Husband that it would take 5 days - he even printed it out - the regulations - and showed it to him).

- We then transfer the money in to the Centura account, pick up our bank cards in Nebraska - all good.

Then Marco calls yesterday, I pick up the phone and he asks to speak to my Husband.

Slight glitch - they are going to hold your money for 15 days!!

Blah blah blah. Ok I'm furious at this point, so after the bank guy babbles on for several minutes I grab the phone from my Husband and hang up

So bank guy calls back and I answer, he says something like 'I don't know why the phone cut out like that but anyway....you didn't come in with your Husband yesterday, I didn't know you weren't going to come in?? -blah blah blah'.

That was when I lost my cool. I told him exactly how I felt about how he had handled this whole thing. I told him I needed to speak with the bank manager.

Long story short - I spoke with her yesterday and gave her a reference (bank manager) at our TD bank branch. She said to me (she is a very reasonable woman and I don't think she actually had the whole story before I spoke to her), that she is going to call our bank manager at TD (luckily I had her contact info as she wrote the bank letter we had to send with the affidavit of support).

According to the bank guy they are holding the money due to 'U.S. banking regulations'. Whether this is accurate or not I don't know at this point - they keep saying how we are new customers to RBC.

Anyway, RBC bank manager has left me voice mail to call her, so I guess I will and see what they have come up with.

The saga continues! This story gets more bizarre each day! I LOVE that you hung up on Marco. Keep us updated!

Me thinks Marco needs to be dealt with promptly....

Death by flagellation?

[Chica Yeyé 41]

Me thinks Marco needs to be dealt with promptly....

Death by flagellation?

I was thinking more along the lines of having HIM apply for a foreign currency account via El Compadre Bank. Enough paperwork to make him kill himself. Long and painful.... cuz me thinkssss he might actually enjoy flagellation...

[IR5FORMUMSIE 850]

Me thinks Marco needs to be dealt with promptly....

Death by flagellation?

I was thinking more along the lines of having HIM apply for a foreign currency account via El Compadre Bank. Enough paperwork to make him kill himself. Long and painful.... cuz me thinkssss he might actually enjoy flagellation...

Just as long as you keep the ski mask and sawed off shotgun at home. Now back to filling out the Ford Credit application.

[~Nini~ 2]

Holy ####!!!!!

I dragged Bee with me to the pharmacy today because it was my first time filling a prescription out and I wanted backup

So, for a bottle of sleep medication and one month of birth control... came to a hundred and sixty dollars. I just about had a heart attack at the counter.

Man, I will never, ever, ever get used to this health care stuff. *cries*

[Chica Yeyé 41]

Holy ####!!!!!

I dragged Bee with me to the pharmacy today because it was my first time filling a prescription out and I wanted backup

So, for a bottle of sleep medication and one month of birth control... came to a hundred and sixty dollars. I just about had a heart attack at the counter.

Man, I will never, ever, ever get used to this health care stuff. *cries*

I hear you babeeee. Prices are insane, even with our insurance. And the service itself -with the exception of my super duper GP- suxxxxxxxx.