Daily Thoughts

My city is idiotic. They will not allow you to pay for anything online, on the phone, by debit card, or credit card. It’s check or cash, or you can pay with online banking (which takes 5 days to get there). I don’t guess they’ve been told that debit cards are safer than checks.

I was talking to one of their IT guys one day, and he said that IT has been bugging them for years to get online payment, or at least accept debit cards and phone payment, but nope, no go.

So I called one of our city council members the other day, and told him about this. I told him about how I was trying to pay my water bill. I’ve been having a little banking crisis, what with the Adsense check bouncing, so in order to be able to bathe, I called to ask if I could pay by credit card. Nope…not debit card either. WTF?

Back to the city councilman conversation (got a little lost there, sorry). He said he was not aware that this was the case, and he would look into it immediately. I explained to him that they were NOT running this city like a business, and that they needed to get over having a pay fees to process electronic payments. They could always make us pay a “convenience fee” if they don’t want to put out the money.Although, thinking about that now, this is the city that charged a guy $14,000+ in fines for not getting a $183 license for a $300 swimming pool. I kid you not. Read all about it here.

That “convenience fee” would be so large, nobody would use the stupid thing anyway.

Must be something in the water

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