I'm none too pleased with the banking system down here either....and I've lived with it all my born days! Joel just shakes his head...it's nothing like back home he says. *sigh* Banking down here didn't used to be THIS much of a hassle. Believe it or not it used to be pleasant to do business with banks...but then again, they didn't used to be so darn big, as in branches all over the flippin place. IMHO, the bigger a bank gets, the worse their service gets.

Meh, I don't think I have what it takes to work in a bank.

Dear God... and I'm related to this pervert....

I hate it when you give people your own experience and they say THAT'S NOT TRUE, MY HOMEBOYS TOLD ME YOU CAN JUST BUY A VISA or anything equally idiotic. Both me and the super trailmix are giving right on answers and nooooooooooooo, this subtard insists.

So now I'm going to my balcony with mahhh coffeeeeee and a cigarette (yup Len = smoker = bad person).

Oh my....poor sister Len....

We're here for you sis

I know mine cost quite a few thou.

And you don't know the half of it sister.... having to bail him out every time the Toronto polic catches him flashing old ladies in the changing rooms at The Bay

And to think I'm the good one. It was a big store, I got confused and thought it was a washroom. Actually the police collected evidence of the crime and when the judge and jury looked at the pictures of me, they couldn't tell if I was facing towards them or away from them and threw out the charges.

I had a 'situation' with my bank a few weeks ago. Ok, so when the dollar went up (we bank with TD btw) we opened, or rather I opened, a U.S. dollar account. All good, dollar goes up, we move some money in there.

Now this account is only in my name as I opened it over the phone and my Husband was at work, this is no big deal - except they may want proof of intermingled finances - and anyway, it just seems like a good idea for him to have the latest asset statements in both our names (plus, for some reason on the account my title was coming up as "Miss" - I wanted to change that to Ms - no can do over the phone - later I found out that they can).

So they tell me, if you want to change it to a joint account later, you will have to go to a branch, which we do, on a Saturday a few weeks ago - no-can-do, we are too busy, make an appointment and come back (I don't go to banks generally - I was just making an exception- harumph).

So I call easyline back, explain that this is getting a tad too complicated (operator couldn't believe they wouldn't do it on the spot, apparently it is a 5 minute thing).

So this is what I did. I opened ANOTHER U.S. dollar account with TD, joint account, they mailed us signature cards, we mailed them back. The day the account appeared online I called them, moved all the money and closed the first account.

Yeah.

That is WEIRD. I TD (mostly). I still have a few accounts with them. It didn't phase them in the least that I was moving to the States. The others, well... that's another story.

Please don't get me started about banks.

<----poke, poke, poke..... please Mumsie, tell us about banks.....

Please.
May I??










They suck.

Thank you Spirit. You will always have a place in my heart.

I agree, they have been quite nice and this is just one of those weird things where they won't let you change to a joint account over the phone. As much as I like them though we are going to move to RBC after my Husbands interview since they have branches in the Sunshine State! woot woot!

Hello Dear Trailmix,

Please tread carefully as I fell pray to this.
RBC has branches in the U.S.
They are a different "company" all together with affiliations to the Cannuck version.
Make certain you ask at your branch about how that would work for you.
They told me that I would have to open an account with them to bank there when I visited the one in Miami hoping to get at my own money.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!

I broke my earmuffs. And I am going to Minnesota on Friday. And it's going to be very cold there.

The worst part about this is I have no one to blame but myself for being a dumb idiot. Poo balls!

I'm also still frustrated waiting for my NOA2, but that is not exactly earth-shattering news, is it?

I'm very sorry to hear about your earmuffs. Don't be so hard on yourself, it happens to us all. I'm glad you used poo balls, it shows at least a modicum of decorum. I might have used gadzooks but my recalcitrant sister, Len, might use more profane vocabulary. Something about persons who copulate with mothers or something, I am not to familiar with the argot so I really don't know. Waiting may not be earth-shattering but since we have only a finite time (even the earth itself) its import is inestimable.

GASP!

I am really thinking that the secret should be known before what's left of my reputation goes the way of the Dodo. Mumsie is NOT myreal brother. We found him in our doorstep one morning, inside a box of "The American Terminator" dildos, with 2 bottles of formula and a note that said:

"I can't take care of my child, please accept him as a gift from the Gods. He is nice, but a little on the voyeur side. Please please please adopt him"

I cried, all our brothers cried looking at this tiny creature with big eyes... he was so lovely. Then he gave us all the finger (yup, imprudent and irreverent since the craddle, I mean, the dildo box) and we couldn't help but try to save this baby from himself.... time has passed and look where we are now. THOUGH it must be said the Lady Heather and Sancho Panza School of Obedience was a good good biz for a while.

hahahahahaha

I don't believe it!
You buncha untruthers!
Hmph.
See if I ever believe a word coming out of any of your mouths.

That middle finger has been getting quite the work out ever since, I'm sure.

I want my...
I want my...
I want my... NOA2!

I'm feeling a little less discouraged about it today, though, in large part because an October CSC filer has gotten an NOA2.

It is going to be -4F when my plane lands at MSP. Just FYI, Larry Craig, if you happen to lurk here, baggage claim is a much better place to be propositioned. True, it also helps if you are propositioning or being propositioned by someone you actually already know, rather than some innocent person in the next stall who is probably just trying to relieve him or herself after an 11-hour flight, but still.

And yes, it is a little sad that I still get this much amusement out of Senator Craig's self-inflicted predicament.

Keep'em waitin', that's the way you do it
Money for nothin' and visas for fee

You might even say it's a bit anal, I suggest giving this subject a wide berth and before you know it you'll be tapping your toes. C'mon now, it's not much of a reach.

Next thing you know, you'll be accusing me of being a politician.

Never brother. i know even we, as Mormons for Obama, have limits

Len, I'm afraid that this posting will remove any doubt about whether or not we are related. Who, other than a sister, would write this way? Look at the language used ("he was so lovely"), you can feel the love of a big sister for a baby brother. I don't think anyone is going to believe that we aren't related. I guess you can't always choose your family.

Darn. Busted. I was just trying to extricate myself brother... I mean, if Hillary with 3 brain cells can run for office, I have a shot at it LMAO

WHY OH WHY.... do people feel they have the inalienable right to b1tch about things they know sh1t about, as if they were the experts on the subject. Who qualifies people to JUDGE other culture's beliefs and practices as not-normal, deviant, barbaric, unnatural, etc. I am so sick and tired of the hatred, the stupidity, the intolerance and the inability to learn. FKUC them.

~~~end of rant, love you all~~~~

Humans will never learn. We are all a bunch of ignorant idiots. It will be the end of us. We are merely animals with knowledge of our own existence and ability to die. That doomed us right there.

Unelightened and uneducated masses and the talking heads who profit from such individuals.

Luv ya sis!

Brad, I don't think it's quite time for the rapture yet, but you do make a great many valid points.

Wow. Such doom and gloom. I opted out of the Ignorant Idiot Program and joined the Crystal Light and Breakfast Cereal healing center. Meditation and therapy take up a lot of my time now,
but that's all right.... I have very little money to go out since I started donating 80% of my income. And the creditors notices mean nothing compared to the personal development I feel in my deep and centered heart.

(Personal thanks and acknowledgement to Meryn Cadell.)

the Crystal Light and Breakfast Cereal healing center

You are freaking hilarious! Thanks for making me laugh this morning

I knew there was something missing in my life Crikey.... can I just direct deposit 80% of my salary into your account for guaranteeing my soul will be saved?
you rock.

Oh trust me, I am not doomy and gloomy. I just present everything I say in that tone. I assure you, I'm actually a really cheery guy.

I would just like to complain that my former employer has redistributed the bulk of my previous position's responsibilites amongst THREE other areas.... and is advertising a modified version of my former position with the same amount of staff, AT THE SAME SALARY!!! It has been over 1.5 years since I resigned from my job and they STILL haven't filled the position. I have an almost obsessive-compulsive desire to apply for it. I mean, seriously..... wouldn't that be HEAVEN? Having a reduced amount of responsibilities but being able to collect the same salary and benefits? Does this not seem almost CRIMINAL?!!!

Sometimes I just wanna PUKE.

That is tough and it does seem criminal!!

Sister - apply! Companies don't realize how much effort one puts into doing the deed, and they think it's easy as pie to fill in a position. I know that the College I used to work in Deadmonton is STILL interviewing each week for my job LMAO

Not many people can handle the cat o'nine tails while discussing Susan Brownmiller. Most definitely one class not to fall asleep in.

Actually it was bell hooks brother - great sister of colour with the fierceness of Lady Heather on crack

You make Bell Hooks sound like a monster (angry black woman...*pounds chest*...UGH...me want drugs...kill whitey...UGH...UGH), when she just makes a great deal of sense. Shame on you sis! Have you been reading Horowitz again or, GOD forbid, listening to Tammy Bruce?

Sorry, my diaper needs changing and I'm in a foul mood.

Man, bell hooks (nee Gloria something) is the WOMAN. I love her stuff --- and I also love that she told academia to shove it, left a full professorship position and still rocks my socks.

You're preaching to the choir, sis. She writes what most of us are thinking and many of us already know.

Most of us unfortunately is not the case brother... just read around the boards.....

Sad but true. I'm functionally illiterate so I can't read the boards.

I hate people with buyer's remorse! SERIOUSLY! I know that I get it sometimes, but I deal with it and move on. If I've made a purchase, if it's non-refundable, oh well too bad for me! ~sighs~ On that note, I also really hate sales. I'm not ever selling anything as a job ever again!

I can't wait for this all to be done and over with. I hate driving him to the airport! Hopefully this was the last visit and the next time we're at an airport it's because I'm going home for good! I so can't wait for that! Not long now! I'm getting a little impatient on Packet 3!

I take it something happened at your job? lol

Yeah! I got a customer who wanted to refund a non-refundable service cause someone told her it was a scam. Then she yelled at me. Oh well, that's life! And it happens everywhere!

OK. So I was posting on a thread about Ernesto Che Guevara. I poured my heart and knowledge about the topic (and yes, my biases towards social justice), and this IDIOT (who is godknowswho - never even read him/her on the boards) actually has the guts to send me a PM saying I shouldn't take my information from MOVIES - little piece of ignorant zucchini
AS IF I was your friendly neighborhood bimbo who thinks the Motorcycle Diaries is an accurate portrayal of Ernesto Guevara's life. I sh1t you not people, I was at first quite pissed off; then I just laughed at the poor little petty thing; not without reporting him to Ewok of course.

He's obviously a twit because he doesn't know who he's dealing with. What's his name? LOL