Dear Poor Lucky Me,<\/p>\n
I am fuming right now.\u00a0 I just got a letter from my credit card company.\u00a0 It said that I’ve been a great customer and a pleasure to do business with, but due to these tough economic times they’ll be raising my interest rate to 18%.<\/p>\n
I immediately called the company and asked them to close the card, because I never carry a balance and refuse to be b*llsh*tted.\u00a0 They told me not to worry, they’d lock in my rate at 10% and sorry for the inconvenience.<\/p>\n
Well, that almost made me more angry, because it was a confirmation that the letter was b*llsh*t.\u00a0 I now know for sure that they are using the terrible economic situation to screw people.<\/p>\n
Should I still cancel the card? How can one person beat this disgusting new pattern of abuse?<\/p>\n
Furiously,<\/p>\n
John Q Public<\/p>\n
Dear John,<\/strong><\/p>\n I think you should call the credit card company and tell them you’d like to cancel your card and that you’ve told all your friends, family and co-workers about the crap they tried to pull on you.\u00a0 It’s an outrage that so many companies are taking advantage of this economy.\u00a0 Even the newspapers are trying to keep their heads afloat by publishing panic-news.\u00a0 It’s as despicable as war-profiteering! <\/strong><\/p>\n I wonder if you should even write a letter and gather signatures about how you won’t tolerate such sleazy behavior.\u00a0 You could send a copy to your congressman and try to get a real movement going.\u00a0 I tried this tactic to get the work week down to Monday through Thursday.\u00a0 It makes sense because so many of us are glued to our Blackberrys and iPhones and laptops and put in way more than 40 hours a week. <\/strong><\/p>\n Personally, I use my iPhone to play solitaire and word twist while on the toilet or in line at the supermarket.\u00a0 I don’t even really know how to get my work email on there, but I still feel like five days of work is overkill.\u00a0 Unfortunately I was not able to garner enough legitimate support for my idea, but I did get a form letter from several politicians and George Clooney’s publicist.\u00a0 You know what they say: “First a stalker, then a best friend!” Down with war profiteering!\u00a0 Up with longer weekends!<\/strong><\/p>\n Sincerely,<\/strong><\/p>\n Poor Lucky Me<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear Poor Lucky Me, I am fuming right now.\u00a0 I just got a letter from my credit card company.\u00a0 It said that I’ve been a great customer and a pleasure to do business with, but due to these tough economic times they’ll be raising my interest rate to 18%. I immediately called the company and … Continue reading “Friday, March 28th”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3830,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/3830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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