TheBanyanTree: Today's sad story

[Monique Colver]

My stepfather rewarded me amply for . . . coming around and helping him out
after my mom died.




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Monique Colver
Colver Business Solutions
www.colverbusinesssolutions.com
monique.colver at gmail.com
(425) 772-6218

On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 11:19 AM, Jeri Xiques <jer.xiques at gmail.com> wrote:

> That's a nice problem to have, Neeky!!
>
>
> On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 11:20 AM, Monique Colver <monique.colver at gmail.com
> >
> wrote:
>
> > Don't worry, it's short.
> >
> > I have a substantial sum of money in an account, and I'm trying to move
> > some of it in pieces to several other accounts, but the other banks
> aren't
> > cooperating. The account I'm sending from is a credit union, and the
> > accounts I'm sending to are a combination of credit unions and online
> > banks, all set up for external transfers but not from the accounts where
> > the money is.
> >
> > And then I thought, "Hey! I have actual real paying work to do here! So
> > let's forget about it for today, get some fruit salad from Thursday for
> > breakfast, and try doing some actual real work!
> >
> > Yeah, I'm gonna do that.
> >
> > I have multiple accounts because years ago, when I was poor and Stew was
> > alive, we had all our accounts closed one day, like this: WHOOMP! We were
> > at a restaurant at the time and didn't find out until we tried to pay. We
> > could not pay. His accounts were closed, my accounts were closed. The
> > restaurant said, "Oh, you can write a check!" as if they had figured out
> > something amazing. Since I had no other option, I wrote them a check,
> even
> > as I knew that said check would bounce, since all the cards were denied.
> I
> > didn't know what else to do. How else would we get out of there? Once we
> >  made our escape I went to my bank and they relented slightly -- they let
> > me keep my business account open. One day months later I went in to the
> > bank to pay off the several hundred dollars of balance due and they told
> > me, "Oh, that's been paid for. Someone came in and paid it." They
> couldn't
> > tell me who, and I never found out who the good samaritan was, though I
> > have my suspicions.
> >
> > For 7 years, I was allowed only 1 business account. Once that seven years
> > was up, I got more and more accounts, so many accounts my husband can't
> > keep them straight. That's okay, as long as I can. There's always a bit
> of
> > money somewhere
> >
> > I've never been good at moderation. Though I'm not a black and white
> > thinker, I am a black and white responder. Someone says I can have only
> one
> > account, I'm going to open as many as I can when I can. Someone doesn't
> > show up for a meeting, it must be because they hate me. Someone blows me
> > off, I never should have trusted them in the first place. Extreme
> responses
> > when they're not called for. Used to be, anyway. Nowadays I usually don't
> > much care, because these things aren't important.
> >
> > You know what is important?
> >
> > Having to keep a chart to keep track of where one's money is.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Monique Colver
> >
>