Misc Jokes

A Credit Card Nightmare

In March 1992 a man living in Newton near Boston
Massachusetts received a
bill for his as yet unused credit card stating that he owed
$0.00. He
ignored it and threw it away.
In April he received another and threw that one away too.
The following
month the credit card company sent him a very nasty note
stating they were
going to cancel his card if he didn't send them $0.00 by
return of post.
He called them, talked to them, they said it was a computer
error and
told him they'd take care of it.
The following month he decided that it was about time that
he tried out
the troublesome credit card figuring that if there were
purchases on his
account it would put an end to his ridiculous predicament.
However, in the first store that he produced his credit
card in payment
for his purchases he found that his card had been
cancelled.
He called the credit card company who apologized for the
computer error
once again and said that they would take care of it. The
next day he got
a bill for $0.00 stating that payment was now overdue.
Assuming that having spoken to the credit card company only
the previous
day the latest bill was yet another mistake he ignored it,
trusting that
the company would be as good as their word and sort the
problem out.
The next month he got a bill for $0.00 stating that he had
10 days to pay
his account or the company would have to take steps to
recover the debt.
Finally giving in he thought he would play the company at
their own game
and mailed them a check for $0.00. The computer duly
processed his
account and returned a statement to the effect that he now
owed the credit
card company nothing at all.
A week later, the man's bank called him asking him what he
was doing
writing a check for $0.00. After a lengthy explanation the
bank replied
that the $0.00 check had caused their check processing
software to fail.
The bank could not now process ANY checks from ANY of their
customers
that day because the check for $0.00 was causing the
computer to crash.
The following month the man received a letter from the
credit card company
claiming that his check had bounced and that he now owed
them $0.00 and
unless he sent a check by return of post they would be
taking steps to
recover the debt.
The man, who had been considering buying his wife a computer
for her
birthday, bought her a typewriter instead.