[[Still A Girly Girl]]

Jun 7, 2005

For those of you who don't have the common sense to figure this out on your own, please don't put sharp objects into public trash cans lined with flimsy plastic garbage bags. Nobody should ever have to spend 20 minutes standing in the rain and wind cleaning up a pile of cigarette butts, fast food wrappers, and paper cups from Starbuck's, all soaked in coffee from said paper cups, just because you thought that the gas station was the ideal place to throw away your rusty box knife.

Sincerely,
Everyone Working A Thankless Minimum Wage Job

So, in addition to a work day that reminded me just how much I will appreciate having the next two days off, I had another phone-related moment.

That payment I sent in on the 27th of last month? They still haven't gotten it. So much for my payments never taking more than 5 days to post to my account. When I called this morning they suggested that I call the 800 number on my money order stub to see if it had been cashed yet. This is a great idea, only I was using my money order stub as a bookmark last week when the wind blew my book open and the stub floated away into oblivion. They then suggested that Safeway should be able to retrieve the serial number for me.

I hung up with Sprint and called work. They assured me that they could search the computer logs and find the number, and indeed they did. However, the company that provides money orders for Safeway will not tell you over the telephone whether or not your money order has been cashed; you have to submit a written request. With a $10 processing fee. And they will respond to your query within 30 days. So much for my luck.

I'm hoping that the mail was just slowed down by the holiday weekend and my payment will post within the next couple days. If it's not credited to my account by Friday my phone will be shut off, and I will have to pay the $111 again and file the necessary paperwork to find out the fate of my first money order. If it turns out that it was lost in the mail and never redeemed, my money will be refunded. If it turns out that Sprint cashed it and did not credit my account, I will be demanding that my money not only be returned to me, but that I also be reimbursed for the time my phone was shut off due to their clerical error. Hopefully it won't come to that, but if it does, I hope I have the balls to demand that things be corrected as they should be.

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Posted by erynthenerd @ 9:00 PM

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