I just got back from beating up the Bank of America.
 which is one of, if not the biggest bank in the United States.

 On New Years Eve, I did a transaction with them at 11:36 AM.
 When I got my statement, they said the transaction was posted Jan 2.
 This concerned the mortgage on BartCop Manor, which means they were
 going to charge me another year's worth of interest on the transaction.

 Bart's Law #2
 Any time a person or entity makes a "mistake" that puts extra money in
 their pocket, expect them to make that "mistake" again and again and again.

 So I called the bank's 800 number and the idiot confirmed that I'd been screwed.
 He gave me more detail than he should have, and that information put the snare
 tightly around the scrotal sac of the multi-billion dollar Bank of America.

 Then he tells me, "The only way we can backdate the transaction is if you
 have your original receipt from December 31," which is horseshit, because
 they have a receipt from the same transaction.  So I found my receipt, (thank Koresh)
 and put it in my pocket and drove to the branch where the attempted rape occurred.

 Sidebar:
 I was going to play the whipped puppy, "But I can't find the receipt!" and give them
 the opportunity to hang themselves. Once they "knew" I had no receipt, they could make
 any wild-ass claim they wanted.

 First thing I did was get a business card from the teller who screwed me, and I said
 I needed to speak with someone with the authority to back date a deposit. The tellers
 stupidly confirmed that "Peggy" and "Donna" were both able to back date deposits.
 Now they had nowhere to go - nowhere at all.   I had 'em.

 So the Banking Center Service Manager invited me into her office and asked how she could help me.
 (Meanwhile, I palmed one of her business cards.)  Always the diplomat, I didn't start with
 "You bastards tried to rape me."  I said, "A deposit was mishandled by one of your tellers
 and I'm very upset about it and and we need to correct the problem right away."

 I described the "mistake" that put an extra $1200 in their pocket and after some checking, she
 reluctantly agreed that some "inadvertant error" had been made and she said the corrected
 deposit slip would be mailed to me in the next 5-7 days.

 Damn, once again, just like with The Rio, I didn't even get a chance to fire my guns. If they had refused
 to do the right thing, I was going to get very loud in their lobby and tell them I would have the lawsuit
 served on them that same day. (That's why I had the business cards - to know who to serve.) I had my
 receipt and there's no way in hell some judge is going to ignore that receipt. Besides the lawsuit, there's
 always the Oklahoma State Banking Commission, or whatever it's called. Don't you know they'd love
 to get involved when a crooked company gets caught in a tractor's nuts? It justifies their existence,
 having something to do.  The mighty BOA had no choice but to 'fess up & make it right.

 So here's how I see it - the biggest businesses in America regularly screw their customers.
 Out of say, 100 victims, I'll bet 75 don't even know they've been screwed. The other 25 notice
 the theft and call the business to compalin. Of that 25, I'll guess 13 accept, "There's nothing we
 can do about it, we're very sorry, Sir," and they just accept the screwing.

 But everyone needs to be in that last 12.
 You stand up and say "Horseshit! I won't let you do this to me!"

 Reminder:
 This was not a mistake.
 They deliberately took a transaction from 11:36 AM and effectively held it until next year.
 They also double-mis-applied the money, proving this was no "accident."
 They got caught.
 They were guilty.

 If they had fought me, swear to Koresh, I was going to insist on a BartCop Manor mortgage payment
 as penalty or I would file the suit, notify the newspaper, drag them into court and cause them pain.
 

 Moral of the Story:
 When a multi-billion-dollar Republican corporation tries to screw you - fight back!
 

 Last Minute Sidebar:
 I never got this story written, but on that last trip out west? To BartFest?
 We stayed a night Ruby's Inn Lodge 1000 S Hwy 63, Bryce, UT 84764   (435) 834-5341

 They pulled the same kind of bullshit on us.
 We stayed there one night, and they billed us for two nights.
 I called to complain and they said, "How do we know you didn't spend both nights?"

 ha ha
 Usually their first line of defense tells you if their guilty or kust f-ed up.
 I knew they were guilty, trying to pull that crap on me.

 And I said, "Horseshit! You can't tell when a room is occupied?
 Does this mean me and all my friends can pay for one night and stay all week?"

 They weren't going to give in, so I called Best Western Corporate HQ in Phoenix (wherever)
 and told them I wasn't going to take this f-ing lying down, and we needed to make this right.
 So, I produced a receipt from the hotel we stayed at the night they double-billed me for and
 Best Western agreed to pay half and that crooked Ruby's Inn Lodge agreed to pay half.

 Best Western didn't do anything wrong, (unless this is company policy) it was Ruby's.

 Come stay at Ruby's Inn Lodge,
 but check your credit card next month
 cause we'll screw you if you're not sharp!

 The Rio tried to screw me,
 Ruby's In  Lodge at Bryce Canyon tried to screw me,
 and the mighty Bank of America tried to screw me.

 Who do I blame for this?

The Illegal Moron

  Who, me?

 He has so screwed our economy into near-bankruptcy that once-reputable businesses
 feel like they have to screw their good customers. American businesses are doing things
 to their best customers they never had to do when Clinton was in charge.
 

 Moral of the Story:
 When a multi-billion-dollar Republican corporation tries to screw you - fight back!
 More often than not, they'll give in, because if you make some noise and expose them
 they won't be able to screw the thousands of people behind you.  To big business,
 screwing their customers is like a poker game - they know they can't win every hand,
 so they "lose" one once in a while to keep their crimes a well-hidden secret

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