Rate your personality type!

Recently, my pastor used this metaphor in a sermon about perfectionism. I thought about the people I'm closest to, and found it eerily accurate. Please vote for your personality type below! Thank you for helping me not be terribly bored tonight. :-)

Balanced once a week , to the penny.

Has to match not only by hand/calculator in check register, but must also match online banking balance as well as balance in quicken.

Are you, by any chance, an unmarried heterosexual male??

Just teasing. I ain't looking. If I were, you'd be high on my list. ;-)

I'm also overweight, sarcastic and would rather laugh than cry anyday.
(And also Southern by the grace of God.)

And thank you for the compliment, my dear. <bows>

(Where *is* the DU "singles lounge"? lol)

I am, as well, overweight, sarcastic (at times), and Southern by the grace of God.

What're the odds, eh?

n/t

Are you between 27 and 32 years old?

Try more like creeping up on 47 come feb.

I'm very sorry, but I'm terribly ageist about who I daydream about. Must cross you off my list now. Please forgive me; I shall endeavor to improve myself.

(Because I'm only 25. :-( )

My adopted father (who is a little bit older than you -- you like golf? You'd probably get along well) lives in Nashville. Maybe we'll do lunch sometime, though. That would be nice. I haven't met any DU'ers in person yet. :-)

You're here for the right reasons, so I still love ya!

I don't do golf. I used to to race motorcycles and cars. (More "type A" stuff?) Now I play online games, make snide remarks in message bases, and Photoshop anything that I find a suitable target.

I've never met another DU member as of yet, but there's always hope. Some of the best gatherings I've ever attended were online ones where we got to put the "real people" to the names.

As for lunch? Sure! PM next time you're headed up.

(I hadda look. In my previous job I used to be in Rockey City at least once a week. Did IT work for a now-defunct chain of pet stores who used to have a location there.)

if I just can't decide? LOL.

Thats me!

i balance it to the online account every night....just to check that the banks aren't screwin me again.

:-)

I find the banks screw it up far more often than I do.

And welcome to DU! (Check your locker for the obligatory nomex jammies before venturing into the GD forums.)

my car payment.

That unexpected and incorrect several-hundred-dollars debit caused more than 20 checks to bounce. They hit me with a $35 fee for each check. I logged on in the morning, expecting a balance in the $200 range, and got one in the -$600 range.

Thank GOD I check it every day, eh? (Don't use that bank anymore, but still check daily....)

I marched down there and made them not only refund all the fees, but also send certified letters to each and every merchant verifying that it was THEIR error that caused the check to bounce. I was there for five hours being mean, bitchy, and sarcastic.

But when I went home, justice had been done. I rock!

To start with, I shoulda got a real bad feeling when I opened the account. The nice lady takes my paperwork, returns with my little new ID card with my account number and my deposit slip for my initial deposit. Upon returning to work, I happen to check the account number on the card against the deposit slip... the idiots put my opening deposit into someone else's account! I shoulda just went back and closed it then, but nooo...I kept my money there.

About 6 months later, I deposited my check in the bank as normal for me, and over the weekend wrote two checks for "cash" to a local merchant for "running money". Much to my suprise a few days later I get a form letter stating "The following checks were presented to us for payment when sufficient funds were not in the account to cover them. We have deposited sufficient fund into your account to cover the checks, and you owe us (the total of the two checks plus the two nsf charges). I called the merchant and he informed me the checks were returned for insufficient funds. I then told him the funds were there (the bank just told me so). He agreed to re-run the checks. (Note that this still hasn't determined where my deposit went.)

A few days later the merchant calls back. Guess what? They bounced again. I went down to the store and paid for the checks, plus now 4 bad check charges from him. Then I stormed down to the bank, their form letter in hand. I asked for the manager and asked him how could he charge me for the amount of the checks when they never paid them in the first place? And how does not paying them jive with "we have deposited sufficient funds into your account to cover the checks in question"? If I picked up the checks unpaid, obviously they didn't pay them, but they were demanding a total of 4 bad check charges plus the amount of the checks themselves? Sorry, I'd already paid 4 bad check charges. When asked what the form letter seemed to indicate, he replied "that's not what it means". I inquired about my deposit, and of course, if I can't produce the deposit slip, then there's nothing to be done. Well, I wasn't the best of record keepers way back then, so I knew I'd play hell ever seeing my money, unless someone actually contacted them to say their account had more money in it than it should have. (Fat chance.) I turned to leave and the manager asked me where I thout I was going, since I owed them all this money. I told him "You have my address...if you think you have a case, sue me. Call my account 'closed'."

I never heard back and changed banks the next day.

Quoth the raven "nevermore". I'm fanatical about record keeping now.

I was PCS'ing in the Army, going from Ft. Polk, LA to Germany. I gathered all my stuff, then picked up my 201, Pay and Med Records. I drove to NY as I had a few days leave before zipping off to the FRG.

I gave my brother my car, my other brother a TV, put a whole lot of stuff in my parents basement: Then I went to Ft. Hamilton in NY to with my financial record to get a check, as it was the EOM.

I got a decent check from the Army, still had a few days of leave left, but no bank account in NY. No problem, my Stepdad took me to his bank to cash said gov't check. I waited in line, he waited too, and we just shot the breeze. I get to a teller with check, military ID and a NY Drivers License. Teller asks if this is me & do i have an account with the bank.....bells went off.

Stepdad says to teller, I'll countersign and vouch for my stepson, he's going to Germany in a couple of days. Teller says, "I can't do that". I have to explain here, that my stepdad was an exceptionally cultured man, who was a platinumsmith for Harry Winstons in NYC. He was well known in the bank, and there should have been no question about what was being asked.

Stepdad asks, "Are you serious? This man is a soldier that is defending your right to stand in this country, and you won't cash his check? Let me speak to Mr.-------", the bank VP. Then, he startled me by actually telling the teller, "no forget it, your too fucking stupid, and if you turn around you'll get lost"!

Step dad goes to Mr.-------, and talks to him quietly for two or three minutes; I am left, embarrassed as all hell over all this attention from both bank employees and customers. I mean, I feel like Willie Sutton or something!

Step dad comes back, and says we'll wait over by Mr.-----'s office. OK, ANYTHING to get me out of the Limelight!

End of tale......My stepdad went into the VP's office, talked to him, closed two checking accounts, several savings accounts, his safe deposit box; I mean everything! It took about 20 Min's to get a cashiers check from the VP for cash assets, and during that time, the SD box was cleaned out.


We left the bank, (me with a crummy gov't check and ID still in hand), and walked across the street to The Dime Bank where af few minutes later, I had cash for my check....and the cashiers check from the bank across the street was deposited into a new account, and a new SD box had been opened. I was slackjawed, I got a glimpse of the cashier's check, it was pretty damn big!

My step dad and I never talked about it after that day, but he did say to me on the way home, "Never let people mess with anyone who is willing to defend them, make them understand, they work for you, Soldier".

O8)

And your step dad was 100% correct.

But to add to what he said. It's *my* money. They are not somehow entitled to it. I deposit it there because they are courteous and they don't make mistakes. If they make one, they correct it without me having to jump through hoops to do so. Treat me like I'm not as good as every other customer there, I'm gone...so is my account.

I love it!!

Welcome to DU cutie

I'm the anal retentive's anal retentive. (Wish there were a more appealing phrase for that quality, don't you?)

as in 'duh'.


:eyes:

I'm very responsible about things, but I try not to obsess and get too neurotic about it.

of my first checking account(30 or so years ago...)
I usually scan thru the bank statement(although sometimes, I don't even open it), to see if anything stands out as being just plum wrong...otherwise I just keep a running total in my head as to the ballpark amount that's in the account. It may not be a good system, but it works for us.

I need your advice regarding this to deal with my phone bills and student loans . . .

Do you mean balancing the account?

You do not sleep until it does.

If you mean something else, please clarify.

:)

about type A's, that it's not the output, it's the attempt.

I would bash away for hours at my checkbook and still not be able to find the last penny but swear I wasn't type A because it wasn't perfect.

just because I'm way too unorganized and spontaneous, but then again I move to "type A" for a while. I don't think that made any sense.

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