One bourbon, one scotch, and one mav

So I’m trying to buy a new Macbook.

I have X dollars in my bank account. I want to debit Y dollars. Y is substantially less than X. No charges are pending. However, even with that. WaMu in their infinite wisdom won’t let me debit anything from it because, according to their rep, my maximum transaction dollars per day is $2509. No more, no less. Y is exactly $70 more than that. I ask if I can change it. I am told no, but conveniently they can send me this Gold debit card that has a $3009 limit. It’ll get here in a week. Oh, and it costs money.

I was fine up to that point. It’s a ludicrous set of rules but shit, considering who I work for I’m used to ludicrous, arbritrary rules that make no logical sense whatsoever.

So I say “fuck it,” and call Apple and tell them to up the dollars charged to my actual credit card. I don’t have a lot of credit, am coming pretty close to the “oh shit” mark on it anyway, and they charge me a fuckload of money if I ever go over. (I’ve never done that, but I actually read that page of bullshit that comes with the card…) Apple changes the numbers, attemps to charge my WaMu card again (for less than $2509) and zap, declined again.

Seriously. Fuck Washington Mutual, I am changing banks this week. There’s no good goddamn reason I should not have access to my money. This is bullshit.