Ooh just discovered the school PTA is arranging a tournament. That could be lots of fun, but I imagine there'll be plenty of muppets. Could be quite a lot of people, hopefully will raise a chunk for em.
I'll pay as soon as my shitstorm of a bank allows me access to my account, which should be, according to their best estimate, at some currently unknowable point in time.
My daily routine now involves me waking up, remembering how much I hate TSB, making a coffee and then hunkering down to a 1hr call with the bank. It's kind of self-defeating because every time I phone they have to add a shitload of notes to my account concerning everything we've just talked about, and so each day they put me on hold whilst they read the ever-expanding list of cases notes and it takes a bit longer on each call. It's currently about 10 mins, and this is after waiting at least 20mins for them to actually answer the call.
They don't read the notes straight away of course. Instead they spend 5 mins explaining they are the fraud team and I've phoned the wrong department (which is technically true as they've admitted there is no useful dept that I can actually contact directly), and so I have to take 5 mins to explain what the situation is and that if they go into my account and read the notes, the notes will explain that I've just been instructed to phone the fraud team after all.
Only then do they explain that there's not much they can do as It's not actually their department that deals with this but I can be assured it's being dealt with urgently, and if I'd like to call back tomorrow that's be just dandy, but what they can do today is to absolutely confirm, for sure, with some clarity, that the account is still most definitely still frozen.
I joined Starling some time ago and have never looked back - when you finally get access again, I can recommend them. For one thing, no call centre - it's all in-app chat support, 24/7.
Interesting story about their genesis and links to Monzo too, but that's a different thread.
Ludicrous is the word. I didn't ask for any comp for the last one (although they paid me some anyway) but this time I'm going to have a shitfit until they pony up.
I've only just joined a new energy company and the first direct debit payment hasn't gone through, so presumably this can affect my credit score a tiny bit?
The river king. I think Gonz had already shown interest though, by maybe raising on the turn. I can't quite remember but I knew it was silly as I was doing it.
I think there was maybe no straight or flush draw on, so it was just a mad play considering the betting pattern during the river and turn. I think being sober was easily the best advantage.