Finance charges are like incest!

[Rosakala]

I do customer service for a credit card. The biggest thing to note about our card is that we offer no interest no payments for six months on any purchases 299 or more. That catch is, you have pay to the amount off in full or you'll get charged all the back interest from the 6 mo or 12 mo if you bought it at the right time. Needless people somehow always manage to miss that part. And this guy took the cake. He of course, had had a promotion expire (that's what we call the 299+ deals) and was utterly livid. The call went approx something like this.

Dr: supposedly one anyways
M: me

M: Thank you for calling blah blah this is Rosakala speaking may I have your name please?
Dr: Dr High and Mighty
M: Thank you and how can I help you today?
Dr: Why have I been charged these finance charges? Rant rant whine whine, Did I mention I was a doctor? Do you know how smart that makes me? These finaces chrges are an abomination! Oh was that word to big for you, do I need to explain what it means?
M: (Annoyed but still calm) No sir my vocabulary is just fine thank you. Now sir you -
Dr: No, no, you listen to me these finance charges are an abomination of the greatest sin akin to incest! Take those finances charges off or I'll close my account. *click*
M: I hit the aftrcall button so fast after I realized the idiot had hung up and promptly laughed myself silly. And since the customer hung up on me no finance charges were adjusted.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Ah-wuh?

Finance charges can be compared to fucking your sister now?

Now I have to go into work and count things with a broken brain. Thanks for that.

[marasbaras]

Never having participated in an act of incest, I rarely compare it to anything.

[cinema guy]

Actually those terms are pretty sucky. But he has no-one to blame but himself for not reading the terms carefully enough.

Which I guess is kind of like incest, if you don't check out who you are boinking carefully enough.

"Are you my sister?"
"Er, no."
"Mother?"
"What? No!"
"Aunt, cousin or other relation?"
"NO!"
"Great, get your kit off."

[tropicsgoddess]

Wow...finance charges = incest . I don't get it. But obviously the "Dr." didn't and was just trying to sound high and mighty to get his way...which FAILED!

[Samaliel]

Quoth cinema guy

Actually those terms are pretty sucky. But he has no-one to blame but himself for not reading the terms carefully enough.

Which I guess is kind of like incest, if you don't check out who you are boinking carefully enough.

Great. You broke my brain. With laughter, but broke it, still.

Just because you can jokingly come up with this kind of stuff, I think that some people actually think along those lines.

If you bend reality enough, you can make a great joke. If they bend reality enough, they'll manage to make it fit their own botched frame of mind, rather than the other way around.

Ack.

[friendofjimmyk]

I would say that if you want to equate finance charges to a sin - try gluttony (on the creditors part - can't get enough of my money!) But incest?

You know, it took a minute, but I think that did short circuit a brain wave. I think I heard something pop. Yeah. Something popped and now I smell something burning...

[Sheldonrs]

"...these finance charges are an abomination of the greatest sin akin to incest!..."


Yeah, well who's, your Daddy now Doc?

[Bramblerose]

huh. I thought it would be a sin like usury.

I never thought of the the backlash of the x mos without charge. Paranoia- doesn't mean they're *not* out to get ya.

[Apathy]

"Look at me! I'm a doctor! Do what I say! Wooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!"