24 Dec 11 21:56, Mark Hofmann wrote to Roy Witt:   
      
    RW>> I didn't want to be a clock mechanic anyway... 8^)   
      
    MH> Not a real high demand for clock mechanics, either.. :)   
      
   Especially today. With the cheap prices for digitals, when the battery   
   goes dead, buy a new one.   
      
    RW>> I'm familiar with that shocking bit. My dad always bought the same   
    RW>> name brand TVs because they had a lid that allowed him to access   
    RW>> those tubes.   
    RW>>   
    RW>> Dunno why as the TV worked perfectly, but he had the back off making   
    RW>> some kind of adjustment and he got slammed up against the wall   
    RW>> behind him...he had touched that big fat wire that feeds the CRT and   
    RW>> it gave him quite the wallop.   
      
    MH> I remember those large TVs with the huge tubes.  We still had one   
    MH> when I was in my teens (in the 80s).  It worked great on the 5-8   
    MH> channels that we could pickup with the antenna.  :)   
      
   Mom and dad still had a tube type Zenith when they moved from their big   
   house into a assisted living apartment. He didn't last longer than a day   
   or two there and passed. I think mom bought a 19" table top model then.   
      
    RW>> I never wanted to be rich, just comfortable with nothing owed to   
    RW>> anybody.   
    RW>>   
    RW>> We're free and clear except for a mortgage and the nice mortgage   
    RW>> holder got bought up by Wells Fargo and I hate those people. If they   
    RW>> harrass me one more time about my payment being late (it's due on   
    RW>> the 15th and always mailed by the 10th), I'm going to pay off this   
    RW>> place and get them out of my life.   
      
    MH> I have never had any problems with Wells Fargo.  I was impressed that   
    MH> they were one of the only banks that allows the mortgage acceleration   
    MH> program - and doesn't charge you for it.   
      
   My wife had a seperate account from my business account at Wells Fargo. I   
   had co-signed for her, since she was previously bouncing from bank to   
   bank. When she wrote a check that she couldn't cover, they deducted it   
   from my account. When I dropped in the bank and asked that they put the   
   money back in my account, they weren't too happy about it and froze my   
   account. This was on a 4th of July weekend and I couldn't access the   
   account with my ATM card...I was so mad at the guy who did that, I thought   
   about going to the bank with an assault rifle in hand to close my   
   account, sitting at his desk until it was done. Cooler heads prevailed and   
   I close d it from another bank with a wire transfer, leaving them holding   
   a $30 dollar outstanding check.   
      
    MH> There are plenty of other banks that I despise (BoA).   
      
   I've dealt with them too. They're alright, as long as you keep you   
   statements up to date. They have funny ways of manipulating accounts and   
   costs.   
      
    MH> A few years ago, things got ugly in my dealings with one of my old   
    MH> lenders (Amtrust Bank).  They had been taken over by the FDIC and   
    MH> were holding up my refi.  Once I talked to the right person there,   
    MH> the paperwork was done by the next morning.   
      
   Last month I got into an arguement with a WF representative who had called   
   me (on the 17th) because my mortgage payment was late. They claimed that   
   my payment was due on the 1st and I told her that I would never had agreed   
   to that because the funds I use to pay the mortgage don't get deposited   
   into my bank account until the 2nd Wednesday of every month.   
      
   I specifically recall negotiating the due date to be the 15th with World   
   Savings & Loan, the mortgage company that Wacovia bought out. I guess that   
   got cast aside when WF bought up Wacovia this year.   
      
      
                   R\%/itt   
      
      
     ,,,By the time you find greener pastures, you can't climb the fence!   
      
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