banking rant

6th call of the day. Woman lost her checkbook. She had me read all the
checks that have cleared her account since mid Novemeber. When I hit the
transactions at December 24th, I reminded her that she does have a
statement through December 24th. She insisted I keep going. I placed a
stop payment on her missing checks. When I read her the conformation
number(I did it slowly, 4 numbers at a time) she began cussing at me
because the conformation number was too long. 11 digits. That warrented
curse words.

She couldn't figure out how to balance her check book
because she didn't have it. I went through the last 30 checks to see how
many had not yet cleared. I found there were two. I gave her the checks
that cleared right before and right after the missing one's to maybe jog
her memory. She screamed "how is that going to help
me?!" "Why can't you tell me how much they were
written for?!?!"

*rolls eyes* Because I have no
crystal ball. Now how about you stop yelling at me and appreciate that I
don't just wish you luck and send you on your way, heiffer.

11? heh, we can do that in a week

California
Executes Convicted Killer

By DAVID KRAVETS, Associated
Press Writer

SAN QUENTIN, Calif. - Prison officials executed a three-time murderer early Wednesday,
making him the 11th inmate put to death in California since capital
punishment was reinstated in 1977.

11 since '77? I checked on Texas. Here in Bush country, they
really cotton to execution. Like a duck to water. It is something in the
water.

I looked up the execution
stats for Texas. We have done 337 since 1982. Beat that with your
11...hmph.

Honestly I am
conflicted. While I do not agree with the death penalty, I never feel
sympathy for the men and women on death row, unless it is apparent that
they may be innocent. Carla Fay Tucker just pissed me off. Maybe it was
more the reaction of everyone to her in particular.I felt that she was
undeserving of all the sympathy and attention she recieved. She murdered
two people in a most heinous way. She claimed to find Jesus and wanted to
be spared to continue her work of spreading the word of god. I figure
since she was so close to him now and her life pretty much blows being as
she is in prison, one would think she would be in a hurry to meet him.

Almost everyone gets jailhouse
religion. It means nothing.

Hi ho.Hi ho.

I swear whenever I volunteer for overtime, I almost immediately regret
it . I know I will be grateful when my paycheck comes and we get to pay
more bills, but for the moment I just feel,
"DOH!"

Downtown gets creepy late night.
It is only about a 3 block walk to the train, but there are some crazy
people that are standing or walking around screaming at real and imaginary
people. It is so cold out . I really feel for them. I wonder where they
all went when it snowed?

I will be working from 9am-9pm today. I
should be nice and sleepy. It is certainly not physically demanding work,
I have had plenty of that in the past, but it is emotionally taxing. I
have had the weirdest and most agressive calls. If I wanted agression, I
would leave a comment about You-know-who and watch his spin some lies and
whine. The bank is enough drama right now.

On a lighter note, Brett
Scallions from Fuel went all Bono on the crowd at the America's Future
Rocks Today show which is part of the inauguration festivities and yelled
out, "Welcome to the greatest fucking country in the world!". He
immediately apologized. Maybe he should have just gone all Howard Dean on
the crowd and screamed ,"YEEEEAAH!"  I
loved that. It still tickles me when I see clips of that. Sure it was
goofy, but it was passionate. I love to see passion about my country.