04Jun11

He had been trying to secure the attention of a waiter for ten minutes, but at last got up from his chair and going to the cashier’s desk, demanded to see the manager.
“What for?” asked the girl.
“I’ve got a complaint.”
“Complaint?” retorted the girl, haughtily. “This is a restaurant, not a hospital.”


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On this day in 1923, Autosuggestion takes the US by storm, French psychologist Emile Coue arrives to promote his self-suggestion method, in which confidence and motivation are said to be boosted by repeating the phrase. “Day by day in every way I am getting better and better.” Institutes are founded to teach Coue’s principles.

In 1944 Rome surrenders to the Allies.
In 1989 Imam Ruholla Khomeini dies at 89.

Ah Saturday!! What would the week be without the weekend.~~So what subject to tackle today??
All over the news everyone is talking about the economic problems of this country and the big unemployment that has everyone wondering about. But my wife told me that If I started talking about this subject I would probably bore everyone to death and I wouldn’t want everyone falling asleep on their desktop. So let'’ take up something that is not funny. Banks!!
There’s an old joke here in Texas about a wealthy Texas oilman who cashed a huge personal check which came back from the bank with ‘INSUFFICIENT FUNDS.” Stamped across it’s face. Beneath the stamped words was the handwritten notation. “Not you….us.”
In this country there are good banks and bad banks!! I have had some bad experiences with certain banks whom I will not identify. There was this bank that I used to bank with that was terrible. The personnel that replaced the bank that they had just bought out or merged with replaced all the people too. And the customer service went from great to horrendous. At that time I was purchasing US Savings bonds every payday and after standing in line for what seemed an eternity, In addition to the deposit I gave them the money for the bond which they wrote out a form showing that I had purchased a bond and the amount that I had paid for it.
At that time it generally took the government about six weeks to process a bond request and I would receive my bond in the mail in that time frame.
I was getting paid bi-weekly from my job and generally I would receive a bond from the government every other payday. Then all of a sudden the bonds stopped. So I called the bank and they told me that they had been processed. So I called the treasury department and they told me to write a letter of complaint to my congressman to get an inquiry started. I did that and at the time I didn’t reflect on the fact that I was getting into a process that began to look like whose chasing who in the government. I just wanted my bonds or the money back I didn’t care which.
The first letter back from the congressman was that according to the treasury department all the requests from the bank had been processed and that I had no bonds coming whereupon I sent the forms in that I had not received back to the congressman to send back to the treasury department where upon the treasury department replied six weeks later that the bank had made a mistake and that they had not submitted the forms for processing.
Needless to say I stopped doing business with that bank and I got the bonds a few weeks later which I was rather angry about because of the interest I had lost in the process. For those in the know bonds have a really low interest rate but they are considered a very safe investment therefore the rate is low.
I reflected on all the time and the people involved.
I am really sure that the congressman has really more important things to do than chase down some bank error and I am sure the treasury department has a bigger problem than mine to worry about, but in retrospect after the meltdown of the economy and the roles of banks involved in it I am not surprised of all the rip off schemes they have initiated in the last few years. The government bails out the economy and the Bank CEO’s rip off the money so they can live high. What a mess!!

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Here is another story about Abraham Lincoln past President of the United States

When Noah Brooks had carefully explained to President Lincoln
how a California politician had unwittingly been led into speaking
the truth, the President recalled a similar circumstance about
a Negro barber in Illinois, who was a great liar. A crowd
in front of the barber shop stood one evening gazing with
admiration at the planet Jupiter. "Sho," said the barber,
"I've seen that star before. I seen him 'way down in Georgy."
Said Lincoln: "Like your California friend, he told the truth,
but thought he was lying."