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Subject: Re: The absurdities of life.
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Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 14:20:33 -0500 (CDT)

It was a kick when an apt manager kept mailing me a notice that I owed 
them .08.  I just waited to see how many times they'd mail me a notice.  7 
times by the time I left and paid them the .08.  Funny thing was, I lived 
right behind the office where it was mailed from.  (:
Cindy

On Mon, 7 Oct 2002 bitbitch@magnesium.net wrote:

> 
> 
> So I get a check from Pac Bell today (SBC as they're called now).
> Turns out, they went to the trouble of printing out, signing, sealing
> and stamping a check just to refund me for a whole $0.33.
> 
> They easily spent more than this just getting the materials together.
> Why the hell do companies bother to do this crap?  I mean, isn't there
> a bottom line in terms of cost effectiveness?  I don't think I missed
> the .33, but I sure as hell would have appreciated lower rates in lieu
> of being returned pennies.
> 
> I'm truly stuck on this though.  I don't know whether to frame the
> check, burn it, or cash it in.  Maybe I should find a way to return to
> sender, so they have to spend -more- money on giving me my .33 dues.
> 
> 
> Does .33 even buy anything anymore?  Funny bit of it, is I couldn't
> even make a phone call these days.
> 
> *boggled*
> BB.
> 
> 

-- 
"I don't take no stocks in mathematics, anyway" --Huckleberry Finn


