Somebody wants me to be poor

I can't quite decide if its some odd force in the universe or just me being my own worst enemy. Sometimes its mostly one or the other.

This week it was me.

I get home last night and have a message on my home phone. Luckily I checked it. I usually never check my home machine. It's the City of Richardson calling about my water bill. They leave a number for me to call back. I'm thinking "great, first time I actually go back to online bill pay I screw up one of the first bills. I probably owe them a couple of more bucks."

This morning, I get all signed in at the office and call the utilities hotline. I tell them my name and the woman says "oh yes, we need to talk to you. You know your bill was for $80.42." Yeah I knew. She said "Well, we received a check from your bank for $8,042. We think this is probably wrong and decided to hold the check until we talked to you."

My jaw hit the floor. $8000. I told her she was right and the check was wrong. I would come in and get it and tear it up and write a new one.

I went online to the bank to check who made the mistake, and I pretty much figure out, it was me. Being the genius that I am, I keyed in $8042. Duh. The check would have bounced anyway, but still.

Sometimes I am completely my own worst enemy!!