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April 16, 2010

Greetings...

Did you ever wake up in the morning with a mental list of things
you plan to do that day unaware the day will probably go down as
one of the worst days in not only recent years, but most of the
years in your memory banks? No? Wanna trade places to experience
the "joy" I had? With the exception of one thing, some of the
things that happened weren't really that tragic, but more like
annoyances, with one thing actually funny when you think about it.
The one "bad" thing that happened was enough to take the top prize...=


First, the annoyances...

The house painting project was finished on Thursday. Well, sort of.
The guys finished up and the owner of the company was going to come
over to pick up the check on Friday. Flyboy went outside to see the
finished work and came in the house with "a look" on his face that =

didn't look like he had the winning lottery numbers in his hand. He
told me I might want to go and look at the trim that was painted and
he didn't think I was going to like it...

UH-OH...

I went outside and looked at the trim that was painted in some color
that I certainly hadn't picked! It's not that it was an ugly color, it=

was basically the same color as the house, maybe one tenth darker.
(Maybe). I told him I didn't pick that color and called the owner to
tell him I wasn't a happy camper...

He came out and totally agreed with me and said that wasn't the color
I had picked. The paint store had given him someone else's paint and
he didn't open the cans when he dropped them off for his crew. He left =

while they were taping and didn't see the cans opened...

Not to worry, he said he would get the right color and send them back
on Friday morning to re-do the trim. They came, they showed me the paint=

and finished the job, which looks great...

Not a problem, just an annoyance...


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The new fridge was delivered Thursday also. The old one was hauled
out, the new one brought in. The guy plugged the fridge in and I
commented on how quiet it was a jokingly asked if he had turned it
on. He had and it wasn't working! His face and my face pretty much
matched in expressions. He thought a fuse may have blown and asked
where the fuse box was. He checked the fuses, came back and said
everything seemed fine...except the fridge...

He decided to try another plug a few feet away and still, no luck. I
decided to grab my clippers to see if it was the fridge or the plug and=

when I plugged in the clippers and they were as silent as the fridge,
we knew it was an electrical problem. I told him there was a good chance=

that the non-working fridge he had on the truck was, in fact, working
and fine. I told him he could have it as a birthday gift!

Wonderful...

I told him to just leave the new one and I'd call an electrician to
see what the problem was. Half of the laundry room still had power,
so it was a little puzzling...

Until...

Five minutes after he left i remembered the painters power washing the =

house before they painted and wondered if they got the GFCI outlets
on the patio wet. I went and reset each one, came back into the laundry=

room and, you guessed it, the new fridge was humming...

Not a problem, an annoyance that got me a brand new fridge that I guess=

I would have needed one of these days...


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And for the "cherry on the cake" that made all of the above totally=

unimportant...

While doing my online banking, something, (actually, two things),
caught my eye. Two checks, on the 5th of April and the 6th of April,
were written to a K-Mart totalling a little over $120.00. Hmmmmm, I
wondered. I wondered because I haven't been IN a K-Mart in over five
years number one and secondly, the days that the checks were written
were days Flyboy was home with me and he doesn't even KNOW where the
closest K-Mart is!

I called the bank immediately and while they reversed the charges, the =

"plot" thickened when the check numbers were displayed. The two check=

numbers were checks that had already been written THREE years ago to
two separate companies, none of which were K-Marts! Yessiree folks, I=

am the victim of identity theft and after being on the phone ALL day
with various fraud services, it appears the people/person who did it
ALSO had an ID in my name, (which is how they were able to write a check =

at K-Mart)

Not an annoyance, not funny, and a biiiiiiiigggggggg problem!!!

I filled out affadavits, paperwork, faxed tons of papers all over the
country and went into the bank to open a new checking account. The scumba=
g
"Jamie" somehow found a way to duplicate one of my checks which could=

have been written anywhere down here from doctor's offices to "wherever=
".
I rarely, if ever write checks when I shop, I use my debit card and I
pay all of my bills online because of not wanting "paper" trails in=

Arizona, which is rated number one in identity theft...

Services such as Lifelock don't really work on things like this because=

it's "small potatoes" and spent in dribbles and drabbles. The bank =

won't even investgate because they said it's not worth spending hundreds=

of dollars to find such a small amount...

Guess criminals know this. Sheeeesh!

I even called the manager of K-Mart to ask if I could see the check
because the bank doesn't have it since it was done electronically from th=
e

store. Dead end, they shred the checks right after they clear, which is=

within a day or two...

I talked to the police and made a police report, just to have it on file,=

even though they told me it would probably be futile to think anything =

good will happen out of it...

It just kept getting "better" the rest of the day. Whoever did it or =
is
doing it will probably go shopping again, but there are enough alerts =

on that account to prevent it from happening, but as the manager told
me, nothing can be done, even if the check is declined since it happens=

all the time when it comes to checks...

Sooooo, that was my Thursday and on the outside chance that the identity=

thief somehow reads my column, I would like to send them a message...

Since you are dying to be me by walking around with an ID and checks in =

my name, how about coming over and cleaning my house, working in the yard=
,
doing some laundry and pooper scooping the yard?

You've already been paid...

GRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Have a nice weekend everyone!

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