Category: Weblog

  • Does your bank charge you far too much money?

    Mine does. Everytime i go overdrwan (which is quite a lot) i get charged about £30. I have been through stages in the last few years when i have had up to £120 in charges backed up, so when the first of the month came around i had a sum deducted from my balance. Lloyds Tsb seem to be a pretty good bank in most peoples eyes, well i dont hear many people moaning about them anyway. But all i seem to ever have off them is greif and debts!

    In my opinion my bank should look after me. I pay money into my account every week, and the amount of times ive missed a direct debit, or a card transaction by ONE day, or by a few hours, is unbeliveable. If i ran the bank id have some form of early warning system, where if a customer of mine was going to be taken over their overdraft limit, id give them a curtosey call the day before..

    “Hi there, this is jermaine from The Royal Bank of Olstar, we have noticed you are going to go over your overdraft limit when your next payment go’s out tomorrow morning, would you like us to temporarily increase your overdraft limit, or cancel the direct debit so that the company in question contacts you regarding the payment?” 

    If scientists can make a working car out of a single molecule, i think that somone somewhere is capable of writing a script for banks so they can pre-warn their customers! Its not too much to fucking ask!

    Anyway, my mum piped up about a site that go’s into a LOT of detail about getting charges back from banks. The sites say that the amount some banks charge is unlawful, and that we (the banks customers) deserve our money back! To be fair though, £30 for a computer to automatically print, fold, sign seal and deliver a letter is a bit excessive!

    Tongiht i added up the amount i think my bank should give me back, and from what i can work out its well over £1500! Im gonna follow the procedures on that site, and see what happens! I could clear a lot of the debt i have if i got that money back! So fingers crossed!

    After i had done that H picked me up, and she demonstrated what a great singing voice she has. Her and Sarah are queen’s of kareoke – or so im told 😉 I can imagine they are very entertaining actually, H does the little dances and everything. Haha..

    We then proceeded to have a baby wipe fight, and i now smell like i have been changing nappies. Great! 😆 Ill get you back i will!

    I best sleep now to be fair, i was nearly late yesterday cos i didnt go to sleep till stupid o’clock.

    Oh, new maxxd.com (again) this week, thanks daniel 🙂

  • More Court Drama

    I had actually started to forget about the millions of teeshirts that litter the top of my wardrobe and the spare badroom in my house. I had started to forget how 2 guys who were such good friends of mine, turned round and stabbed me and dave in the back so much so were now scarred for life. Then while we were on our way to USC on friday dave bumped into his mum, who mentioned he had another letter from the courts. That brought all the stress and shit of this farse back ontop of us..
    Anyway, dave actually got hold of the letter yesterday, and it is from the courts, and its going on about danny wanting the money for the teeshirts from a 3rd party. And the 3rd party mentioned is our bank. Now, i dont know if this is to force us to get into debt with our bank, just to pay him back, or if its just a way to make us pay up any money we do have in that bank. But as everyone knows that bank account is nearly empty. Its always been empty, and has only ever really been used to pay money raised for charity in, so that we can send a cheque to them instead of a bucket full of pound coins.

    To make this farse progress and hopefully one day end, danny needs to get off his high horse a sec, and make a deal with us.. I.e. let us give him 500 quid instead of the apparent £1300 that we owe him, as tbf its VERY unlikley that all the tee’s are gonna sell for the price we’ve had them for sale at for months, in the next week or two.. And if im perfectly honest unless they are being sold for £5 or thereabouts, they are NEVER gonna sell. So from teeshirt sales alone, we are NEVER gonna be able to raise £1300. And i am NEVER gonna put some of my own hard earned cash into the pot.. So you can see the predicament we are in?

    What we’d ideally like to do is turn the tables a little bit. He is draggin this out like a bitch, so maybe we should introduce some new evidence and a few more witnesses to the case? I wonder how sy would react if he was summond to stand in court? I wonder if he would sit there and lie through his teeth like he has done about this whole ordeal? I always knew he told porkie pies, hes done it all his life, but i never thought he desocialise himself from loads of his friends just to keep on up..

    It would be great to have him in court, and just go over a few of the lies in the court details.

    So you did actually order the tees from mr simanis, mr wilkinson?
    Why did you bail and resign once the heat got turned on?

    Why did you lie to the courts, and aid danny in lying to both us and the judge?

    What the FUCK have i ever done to you or danny?

    The longer this drag’s out, the more i hate them both. The SOLE reason for tasking sy with merchandise/stickers/clothing back in the day, was becasue dave and myself are VERY busy, and already have far too much to do. Now we have all the stuff we had to do before – plus more, plus trying to sell the tee’s, PLUS sorting out all this court shite.

    We need to seek some legal advise, and flip reverse this shit back to danny.

    God damm stinkin’ hippy!

  • Helpless

    A year and a bit has passed since we took on ownership of the server all our sites are hosted on. And to start with, it was fine. If i ever had any problems, i always asked dave or daniel to have a look, and 9 times out of 10, they would fix it there and then.

    Now this has been a great setup, but i guess i cant rely on other people forever. And the people who read my blog regulary will know that quite recently the people i have been relying on, havent been available. This has made me realise quite how badly i need to learn all the command line stuff, and i need to fully understand PHP and the things related to it.  I mgiht see if  can do a lil course in it? Cos i cant handle being stuck like this with no one to help me 🙁

    I cant blame people, i bet they get quite annoyed with me asking them stuff all the time, and they do have thier own lives to lead. Its just sometimes i feel very alone and very pressured. Like right now..

    And i have GOT to quit smoking. Its dumbing me down so much.

    Not long then i can go home and have a power nap. H is over tongiht cos we both feeling depressed, and feel we can cheer each other up. Thats if i dont fall asleep first.

  • USC 2006

    I had never been to USC before. I had heard stories of how mint it was, and how it was the best show of the year. I wouldnt say that it was the best show, but it was damm good. Me and dave finally got our shit together and headed off about 4pm friday, his car looked awesome! Fuck you barry boys!

    We set off with no music, and only a very vaige idea of where we were actually going. After only gettin lost once we finally got there to find most of our lot rat arsed already. Ive never seen ste drunk before, and it was ace! 🙂 Everyone was talking, there was no little groups just on huge mad party. I took a few party smarties and to be honest i wish i haddnt. I have to be in the right frame of mind to have them, and i REALLY wasnt in that frame of mind.

    The following day i felt like shite. I felt depressed, ill and tired. I usually get a hint of depression after abusing myself, but not usually the day after! It made me feel distant from everyone, including H. Which made me feel even worse. I gradually got better as the day went on, and had another mint night including claire throwing up all over sarah, ahaha.. puke covered trousers anyone??
    The sunday was a MUCH better start, went to watch cars on strip again, got sunburnt more, bought a hat. Then we went back to the campsite cos it was hot and we were all nackered. On the way back we passed Bekki and Mush, who were going to fill up water balloons and supersoakers so we could go ambush CC again, as we had done it the night before.. DRIVEBY!!!!

    Oh how wrong i could of been!!! I got back and H opened fire on me! So of course i retalliated, and that lead to a full scale water fight.. any we could lay our hands on.. old water bottles let out in the sun, ANYTHING! Mush, hollie and H.. Ill get you back @ trax if its hot.. Watch your backs!

    Im so tired as i sit here writing, but i dont want to go to bed cos then my weekend will be over. And i dont want to go back to work. 🙁 Im dreading checking my bank balance too, i bet im broker than the joker! 🙁