Rambling Rhodes

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"It's not the pessimists who will save the West. It'll be those who believe the West is worth saving."

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Resolved

The pizza place/credit union/$5,600 pizza situation has been resolved. So, I won't be naming the pizza place, although I came close, and there will be no Rambling Rhodes complete and total meltdown.

That is all.

Whiff!!!

I think there are plenty of my friends and family who would advocate my repeated use of this product.

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James Bond Really Let Himself Go

He looks shaken. . . not stirred.

DAMN IT!

The $1,870 pizza bill is back on my payment history!

What's worse, I've been informed that debit cards don't have the same protections as credit cards, so if I can't sort this out, I could be shit out of luck, and shit out of $1,870. The pizza place, so far, seems genuinely concerned about the situation and willing to work it out.

If I don't start seeing results soon, I'm going to have to seek legal recourse, I'm thinking. That, and you can be damned sure I'll be naming the pizza place here, and trying to generate as much bad press about it as I possibly can.

I don't fuck around when it comes to my money.

UPDATE: The pizza place has spoken with its credit card processing company and they've reportedly taken care of the problem, but it may take awhile to be reflected at my credit union. The pizza place has been very great to work with and they were genuinely concerned with getting this problem rectified.

UNBELIEVABLE UPDATE: Okay, so they tell me the problem should be 100 percent resolved. At 4:30 p.m., I check my account balance, and it's about minus, MINUS, -$5,500 what it should be. I call the credit union, and they tell me there are TWO additional pizza purchases now showing at $1,870 each. So, that makes THREE overall phantom pizza purchases of $1,870 each, for a grand total of $5,610. This is fucking insane! I'll give it some time, and I'll call the pizza place tomorrow, AGAIN, to find out what the fuck is going on. I'm about to blow my fucking top. If it weren't for how sincere the pizza place guy is about fixing this shit, I'd post the pizza place name, as commenter Bob has asked. Plus going to the Better Business Bureau. Plus possible legal action. I'm willing to extend my "benefit of the doubt" status only so far. As a certain dead celebrity who shall remain nameless would say. . . CRIKEY!

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This and That

Yesterday, I did THIS.

Today, I did THAT.

And, THAT, was freakin' cool.