Rats, I thought he was earning money


An interesting letter from the bank

My idjit #1-Son put his home address on his checking account, one we had opened on purpose in University town so it wouldn't have an out-of-state address.  *sigh*  He doesn't use his checks anyway, just his debit card, but still it means all the correspondence (and other things, like said debit card) come here instead of to him at his dorm.  Last week I got a letter stating that he'd deposited $X00 in his account at an ATM instead of the $(X+1)00 he told the machine, and he should adjust his records accordingly.   (Yes, I opened his mail.  It was from the bank and obviously not a monthly statement type thingumy.  Suchlike letters are rarely good news.  And I was right.)

So I emailed him and told him what the letter said, and inquired as to what was up w/ him depositing money.  I knew he'd had to buy a couple of last minute textbooks (I'd bought all of the ones we knew he needed before classes started) and figured he'd probably withdrawn money to pay for same, and discovered he'd taken out far more than he needed.  But Daughter and I had a good laugh trying to figure out other sources of income:  he knows how to do laundry (and dammit, I miss my laundry slave!) and was doing others' for cash, he took his Pokemon and Magic: the Gathering decks to school and was maybe selling extras, etc.

Alas, my initial assumption was correct.  No fun, that kid.  And no income, either.

Posted: Tue - September 22, 2009 at 03:49 PM   Home         | | View Technorati reactions

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