I had a credit card luckily. I didn’t know the cash flow situation of my friend at the time and wasn’t really going to ask for something he either couldn’t give or that would hamper his own time. I took the fact that he didn’t offer as a sign that he wasn’t able, because he would have if he could. It was a real poopty situation, but I still had a good time, just couldn’t gamble. I like to gamble though
I took a red eye home Monday night/Tuesday morning and worked that same day
Then flew out to Wisconsin at 6am Friday morning and landed and was waiting for some friends, who were coming in on a different flight, at a bar listening to music on my headphones when an erroneous active shooter alert came over the loud speaker at the Milwaukee airport. No bullpoop. I couldn’t hear it though. I saw some girl running and then I saw some guy running with a tray of coffees and I’m sitting there wondering why you would stop for a tray of coffees if you were in that much of a rush because I was already outside of the secure/restricted area or whatever you call it. So I figure at this point something may be going on and I take my headphones out and am just in shock. I hid behind the bar with the bartender and then the alarm shut off and they said it was a false alarm after a few minutes. Scariest few minutes of my life though and it felt like an hour. I texted my mom, brother, sister and told them. It was wild. Luckily a false alarm.
I wonder who’s dog I kicked for that bad stretch of luck. My flight home was delayed from 3pm to 11pm and had severe turbulence. Like the worst I’ve been on. I’m pretty sure no one would have boarded that flight if they knew about my run of bad luck
Got home at like 2am or something and worked that day. Luckily, my bad run of luck ended there. - RickJames77
Jesus Murphy
Bad luck follows you around
Not gonna lie, the most concerning part of this story is working the same day as flying in. Those days are over for me, i need my sleep.
Location: We’re Too Old, Boston Joined: 04.03.2013
Jan 8 @ 1:41 PM ET
Jesus Murphy
Bad luck follows you around
Not gonna lie, the most discerning part of this story is working the same day as flying in. Those days are over for me, i need my sleep. - Arctic_AARDVARK
At the time, if I didn’t have bad luck, I’d have no luck at all
Yeah, I was in my mid 20s and did it one more time flying back from Seattle. I’ve put that practice out to pasture.
Location: We’re Too Old, Boston Joined: 04.03.2013
Jan 8 @ 1:44 PM ET
I was headed off to Finland so I needed to replace my credit card which was in shambles at the time at the risk of not being able to use it abroad for whatever reason. So I called Scotiabank and asked for a fresh one, 2 months before leaving. A month goes by and no card in the mail... so I ask them what went wrong?
Apparently it had been returned to them by Canada post because the address line was cut off so it never made it into the correct mailbox (I was in apt. 915, and there was no apt 9 in the building duh). Nobody ever bothered to contact me or anything, it's just sitting on someone's desk.
So anywho, I'm like fine, that's pretty (frank)ing dumb but if you send it to my branch then I can sign and pick it up from there because don't want to risk the mail again. The person on the phone tells me it'll be available for pickup from Midland and Sheppard avenue within days. I said that's no good because I haven't lived in scarborough in a decade and I've long since changed my home branch to the downtown one in Montreal. Can you please make sure to send it to Montreal so I can pick it up? Thanks.
Get a call 4 days later "Hi this is so-and-so from Scotiabank Midland and Sheppard branch just notifying you that there's a credit card to pick up." I say that's pretty messed up because of the saga up untill this point, can you priority mail it to Montreal branch? "No, if you can't pick it up from here, we have to cancel it and have a new one sent out to you"
Anyways, one more phone call to the people at scotiabank to try to get a new card made up so I can get it. Went to europe with my old one, thankfully it survived the trip even though it was basically being held together with packing tape. - TheMussel
Scott MacFarlane
@MacFarlaneNews
FLASH: Man accused of having 11 molotov cocktails in his pickup truck near US Capitol is Lonnie Coffman of Alabma. He's IN CUSTODY
when did people get so uptight about a guy driving around the capital with 11 molotov cocktails in his pickup?
Location: The centre of the hockey universe Joined: 07.31.2006
Jan 8 @ 1:45 PM ET
I was headed off to Finland so I needed to replace my credit card which was in shambles at the time at the risk of not being able to use it abroad for whatever reason. So I called Scotiabank and asked for a fresh one, 2 months before leaving. A month goes by and no card in the mail... so I ask them what went wrong?
Apparently it had been returned to them by Canada post because the address line was cut off so it never made it into the correct mailbox (I was in apt. 915, and there was no apt 9 in the building duh). Nobody ever bothered to contact me or anything, it's just sitting on someone's desk.
So anywho, I'm like fine, that's pretty (frank)ing dumb but if you send it to my branch then I can sign and pick it up from there because don't want to risk the mail again. The person on the phone tells me it'll be available for pickup from Midland and Sheppard avenue within days. I said that's no good because I haven't lived in scarborough in a decade and I've long since changed my home branch to the downtown one in Montreal. Can you please make sure to send it to Montreal so I can pick it up? Thanks.
Get a call 4 days later "Hi this is so-and-so from Scotiabank Midland and Sheppard branch just notifying you that there's a credit card to pick up." I say that's pretty messed up because of the saga up untill this point, can you priority mail it to Montreal branch? "No, if you can't pick it up from here, we have to cancel it and have a new one sent out to you"
Anyways, one more phone call to the people at scotiabank to try to get a new card made up so I can get it. Went to europe with my old one, thankfully it survived the trip even though it was basically being held together with packing tape. - TheMussel
Mid-1990s.
Mrs. Wedgie (although not Mrs. Wedgie yet) was doing her MBA in BC. Decided to do a semester in Hong Kong. Got some sorta scholarship or bursary to help pay for the pretty big costs. Deposits it at TD bank in Vancouver, hops on plane, goes to Hong Kong.
Money doesn't show up in her account (keep in mind, this is mid-1990s, so things move slow). Tries communicating with the bank back in Vancouver, but things move slow as Thornton, because of time difference, etc.
Bank can't figure it out - transaction is kinda half-way done - they sorta have a record of the deposit, but not enough to complete the transaction.
This goes on for weeks - maybe even more than a month. I have to transfer money to her a couple of times.
The bank launches an investigation. After about a week, they figure out what happened: the paperwork (and actual paper cheque) was sitting under the desk pad of the idiot who processed the transaction (remember when people had these classy things on their desks?):
To this day, we have never received an apology from TD. They simply told her they had figured out the problem, had resolved it, and they were closing the file.
Although I'm secretly happy it happened, because I helped finance her MBA. Yeah, legally, I've got my financial hooks into her.
Location: The centre of the hockey universe Joined: 07.31.2006
Jan 8 @ 1:47 PM ET
(frank) him.
I hope he tries to go toe-to-toe with PMJT, he'll get dog-walked by our PM.
Liberal Americans love Trudeau, and the incoming administration wouldn't allow any moves Trump tries to make, actually happen.
Also you cant just be quiet and treadlightly all the time as a leader, even though that's Biden's approach. Sometimes you need to be frank, and speak the truth. This will help Trudeau score political points, and force the CONS to get in line with democratic values. - Arctic_AARDVARK
Mrs. Wedgie (although not Mrs. Wedgie yet) was doing her MBA in BC. Decided to do a semester in Hong Kong. Got some sorta scholarship or bursary to help pay for the pretty big costs. Deposits it at TD bank in Vancouver, hops on plane, goes to Hong Kong.
Money doesn't show up in her account (keep in mind, this is mid-1990s, so things move slow). Tries communicating with the bank back in Vancouver, but things move slow as Thornton, because of time difference, etc.
Bank can't figure it out - transaction is kinda half-way done - they sorta have a record of the deposit, but not enough to complete the transaction.
This goes on for weeks - maybe even more than a month. I have to transfer money to her a couple of times.
The bank launches an investigation. After about a week, they figure out what happened: the paperwork (and actual paper cheque) was sitting under the desk pad of the idiot who processed the transaction (remember when people had these classy things on their desks?):
To this day, we have never received an apology from TD. They simply told her they had figured out the problem, had resolved it, and they were closing the file.
Although I'm secretly happy it happened, because I helped finance her MBA. Yeah, legally, I've got my financial hooks into her. - Atomic Wedgie
Good times. My second favourite scotiabank experience was the deposit of my invoiced amounts from a client as well as thousands in expense reimbursements was cancelled on suspicion of fraud in december (before christmas ) last year, and the branch manager and assistant client branch managers were so unresponsive that I had the business account manager running around for me trying to figure out what the hell was going on.
No documented reason for why my month's pay was just erased from my account anywhere.
Location: We’re Too Old, Boston Joined: 04.03.2013
Jan 8 @ 1:48 PM ET
Mid-1990s.
Mrs. Wedgie (although not Mrs. Wedgie yet) was doing her MBA in BC. Decided to do a semester in Hong Kong. Got some sorta scholarship or bursary to help pay for the pretty big costs. Deposits it at TD bank in Vancouver, hops on plane, goes to Hong Kong.
Money doesn't show up in her account (keep in mind, this is mid-1990s, so things move slow). Tries communicating with the bank back in Vancouver, but things move slow as Thornton, because of time difference, etc.
Bank can't figure it out - transaction is kinda half-way done - they sorta have a record of the deposit, but not enough to complete the transaction.
This goes on for weeks - maybe even more than a month. I have to transfer money to her a couple of times.
The bank launches an investigation. After about a week, they figure out what happened: the paperwork (and actual paper cheque) was sitting under the desk pad of the idiot who processed the transaction (remember when people had these classy things on their desks?):
To this day, we have never received an apology from TD. They simply told her they had figured out the problem, had resolved it, and they were closing the file.
Although I'm secretly happy it happened, because I helped finance her MBA. Yeah, legally, I've got my financial hooks into her. - Atomic Wedgie
Location: The centre of the hockey universe Joined: 07.31.2006
Jan 8 @ 1:52 PM ET
Wow - RickJames77
Obviously I've been telling this story for 25 years, and I always think that if I was telling this story about a bank or a butcher's shop, people would shout "BS" at the top of their lungs.
But it's about a bank, so nobody bats an eyelash. They just tell me their banking horror story in response.
Obviously I've been telling this story for 25 years, and I always think that if I was telling this story about a bank or a butcher's shop, people would shout "BS" at the top of their lungs.
But it's about a bank, so nobody bats an eyelash. They just tell me their banking horror story in response. - Atomic Wedgie
