It is now day 15 and still no funds from 'paypal'. They have promised faithfully three times on 3 separate occasions now that my funds would be in my bank within 3 days, but they have not materialised. I have now formally complained to the FOS who are their regulatory body within Europe. It would have been all the same had I really needed the money to live, luckily I don't, but their abysmal failure to perform has made me determined not to let them off the hook.
Of course money isn't the most important thing in the world, Love is. Fortunately, I love money.
I was once held up by a mugger with a gun. He said, "Your money or your life!" He got restless when I hesitated, I told him, "Wait a minute, I'm thinking about it!"
One thing I've learned in life, when someone says "It's not the money it's the principle", it's the money.
Mind you its easy to run up a big credit card bill. When my last one arrived I swear I heard a drum roll as I was opening it. And there's always too much month left at the end of my balance limit.
I still think taxes are too high. The difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector is that the taxidermist only takes your skin. I think I'll spend a year dead for tax purposes. They say that everyone should pay their taxes with a smile.....I tried that once but they demanded money.
I told my bank that if they sent me just one more nasty threatening letter I would take my overdraft elsewhere! Talking about banks, my local Spanish bank normally has two tellers on, except when it gets busy, then they have one. Banks say they are now trying to be ultra friendly. If they're so friendly how come they chain down the pens?
My wife was once so poor she didn't know where her next husband was coming from. However I always try to help the poor, trouble is when I go to help the homeless, they're never home. The hardest thing about being homeless though is that they'll never be able to enjoy camping. Seriously though I always give money to the homeless. My wife shouts at me 'They'll only spend it on cigarettes and alcohol'....like I wasn't going to?
When my brother in law gives money to charity he does so silently, silently like a waiter falling down the hotel stairs with a tray full of glasses.
Off to Norfolk next week. I once saw a sign on a lift in one of Norfolk's premier hotels, it said, ' Please do not use this lift when it is not working'.