My Husband "Subvet" says that when our first son "Sonshine" was born the sun rose on our world, when our second son "Gator" was born the sun laughed and when our daughter "Sugars" was born all the flowers bloomed. That says it all.

"Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass...
It's about learning how to dance in the rain."
Anonymous

Your mind is the garden, your
thoughts are the seeds, the harvest can either be flowers or weeds. — William
Wordsworth

Saturday, June 16, 2007

Credit cards

OK, I got a bit frustrated tonight. I'm trying to pare down the number of credit cards we carry so I called 4 companies to cancel, every time was the same. Can someone please tell me why you have to a) speak to 2 people, b) answer 10 min worth of questions and c) listen to a sales pitch just for them to click the cancel button?? If I had not already made up my mind to cancel them, I wouldn't have sat on hold to speak to the representative in the first place. uuggghhh. One of the companies was Bank of America. We're cancelling because of their SSN-free card, availabe to illegal aliens nation wide. So, when the lady asked why I was cancelling, I told her. She had a whole schpeil about how the media made it up and how all card holders had "government IDs" and my information was safe. OK, I tried to explain, again, why I wanted my card canceled. She debated the issue with me. Finally, I interrupted her and asked where she was located. CANADA. I said, so you're debating this immigration issue with me and you're NOT an American Citizen?? Funnily enough, it took exactly 4 seconds more to cancel the card and say goodbye.

4 comments:

Subvet said...

Not even an American citizen. Sheesh, you just can't make this stuff up!

Cookie..... said...

Good on ya fer cancellin AE...they deserve it...but be carefull Mighty Mom....evertime you cancell a credit card...your interest rates go UP...no kidding!

MightyMom said...

Actually, I've been going from 1 0% APR offer to another for about 5 years now. Sooner or later they'll figure out they're actually losing money on me, but till then.......

jennifer said...

I hate that I can relate to this! It makes me sick how easy it is to get a credit card and so hard to cancel!!!