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August 08, 2008 |
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Dispute
FOUND by Tom F.
in Manchester, England
I found this in the lift at the Royal Bank of Scotland building. For some reason it is the mention of "picking up a bench" that makes me laugh.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
I think I'd pick up the bench first while I still had some energy!
Who or what is Halifax?
You don't want to miss your Halifax payment. Nova Scotia has strict laws against it.
Perhaps he has bad Capitalization. Maybe it Hal I Fax.
"Here's your payment Hal."
"That's Mr. Fax to you!"
And could his room really be so messy that he couldn't find his new bed? After all, he just got it.
First you dispute the credit card. THEN you clean the room.
Dispute the charges? The interest? The fact that you do/don't have a credit card? Who are you going to dispute this with? A formal debate, or sixguns at dawn? Who's going to arbitrate?
I would like to dispute with my SO the fact that I don't have a credit card in my own name. However I do see the point of it.
Halifax is a 'building society' (bank that you deposit savings in and get a mortgage from).
Happy to be of service.
small detail: paying halifax is the only line without a small dot to the right. does that mean it was the only thing not yet done when the list was lost?
In this particular case, it might make the whole clean room / find bed thing moot, because Halifax is a mortgage lending firm in the UK. There's a chance that the list maker did NOT pay her mortgage that month at the Bank of Scotland and therefore HAD TO look for a bench to sleep on from then on.
What Lindsey said!
maybe you wouldn't have so many disputes with the credit card company, if you weren't using the card so much.
buying a new bed
paying off some guy named Halifax(yes I know Lindsey cleared up what Halifax probably is, but I prefer to think Halifax is a blackmailer or possibly love-toy)
and buying benches.
and I don't think selling one game on ebay is going to help much
@ Monkey...
Clearly the author of the note is a cougar! The new bed is intended to be the new love nest.
To maximize my exposure to sunlight I shall now spend my summers in Halifax and winters in Tierra del Fuego.
I shall take my bench with me.
Here we go again. Mona?
Dispute Credit Card??? Ahhh...now I see what this author means by that.
Maybe someone used his identity, or there were charges (things purchased)made or added to the account that he/she did not buy?
This poor person can't afford to pay for someone else's life...never mind their own.
That would be a piano bench he needs to pick up. He has a piano lesson on 15 February.
He has to practise (slowly) so he has no time for his video game any more.
And he had to get a loan from the Halifax to pay for his lessons.
And he must clean his room because his obsessive piano teacher is VERY picky about cleanliness.
On the other hand he quite fancies her, now he's age 12 and a half (he finds his mind wandering during the slow bits), so he's beginning to think it might be worth getting a big new bed, just on the offchance?
Mona, are you going to just sit around and let Joe get away with calling you a bench?
I wonder what happened to the old bed.
Pay Halifax is code for "I've got Hell to pay."
Don't people substitute Halifax for Hell?
*Now* I get Jonathan's comment.
I wonder what ever happened to Ben "HA-HA MAN" from Halifax Nova Scotia. (and later Sch'dy NY) You out there, Ben?
I work for an online retailer. People order all the time and 'never get their order' and then dispute the charges. Then they wonder why online companies don't want to deal with them! I mean, I guess this does happen, but if you were being honest, why wouldn't you just call the company and work it out with them? Idiots.
forget your credit card troubles...they'll just go away. clean your room later. get back into your old bed and play that video game one last time. let your mom worry about paying halifax and tell your little brother Dad wants him to pick up the bench.
...aaaannnnddd we're back to lists. I've got nothing.
(*thank you for not complaining about Lists on Our Jonathan's Find! x0x0)
Wow, a find from the uk! :O
The Halifax is actually a serious problem in the UK. They're a cult of deaf penguins that follow Cliff Richard as their one and only leader. At night, they dress up in Cliff wigs, creep in to your windows and swap everything in your record collection for his greatest hits. The NHS is under great strain from the amount of people needing psychiatric treatment after hearing "Mistletoe and Wine" over and over again. I hope that whoever wrote this list knows how dangerous a deaf penguin with money is, especially when armed with the entire back catalogue of Sir Cliff himself...
Funny, I didn't even think about Jonathan's find being a list! Either it was because I was thinking about how exciting it was that it was one of Jonathan's finds, or because it was all about music and her handwriting was so pretty. Besides, I wouldn't do that to a fellow Foundian. :)
i believe i'm getting something of a reputation. Ah, well, if they're talking about me, they're not talking about someone else.
I would really like to dispute my credit card, too. I don't like it any more, and i'd like them to take it back, please. along with all the money owing on it.
Ohhh Cliff. Wouldn't it be funny IF
you really were.. a Cliff?
@Jess, thank you for revealing the true nature of penguins! One of our family catchphrases comes from one of those "you've been framed" type programmes: "You can't just bring a penguin into my home!"
Your explanation reminded me of those decorators who break into people's homes and rearrange their furniture. They don't steal, they just reorganise.
Or that Swedish short film about a gang of musicians who break into an older couple's house and make music using their books, furnishings etc. They progress from the kitchen to the bathroom and bedroom before finishing up in the sitting room and beating a hasty retreat as said older couple comes up the walk. They don't get caught!
@ Librarian
The marching piano band is a success due, in large part, to the Clydesdales and some flatbeds.
Hey, I've got a great idea! I'm going to copy this to do list for my kids. Maybe their rooms will actually get cleaned.
@ Feeling ... "flatbeds" huh? Maybe that was the kind of new bed that the Found author was going to be looking for.
@ Night in gale ... any chance the kids will also help pay off the mortgage at Halifax?
@ mona lisa ... don't despair about the credit card. Just send me your card number, that little number on the back, and the expiration date and I'll take care of the whole thing for you. Or post the numbers here, whatever's easier.
Not this side of hell, Librarian. The most I'd hope for is closed dresser drawers and made beds. I'm not holding my breath, though.
it almost looks as if the list writer was GOING to clarify what bench, and what for.. it looks like the word "for" was scribbled out.
(or possibly "from"? was it in storage?)
It's another one where each little "punctuation" bullet looks different:
arrow down (or "rockin' R)
dot
(upright) rectangle (would that be an erectangle?)
plus sign
(blank)
dash.
@ Librarian
My brain went on vacation and left me at the keyboard. The flatbed reference was to the other found (Bethel PA).
I'm going to sleep now and hope to find my brain. Good night.
ok..i'll post them on here... thanks, librarian, you're such a pal.
1234 567 8910 and the number on the back is 123
There's a bench in my back yard that was here when we bought the house 16 years ago. It's old and icky and really heavy. I do not want to pick it up under any circumstances.
sounds like me moves a lot. change of address, the bill doesn't catch up, now he has to pay for that on top of all the other moving expenses like finding new beds and benches.
a few years back i had a job within walking distance to my house, down the hill to work, right through the heart of downtown, up the hill to home. for whatever reason, i don't know, maybe i tripped on it, or the sketchy predatory downtown guy was sitting there, but i burst out "i hate that bench!" me, who is of the kindest nature to all people, and totally shocked a coworker who thought i'd said something else. so the word has this secret dual definition to me now.
What in the world are you writting about, dalias in bloom?
cow orkers are so easily shocked. (and amazed. and amuzed. And confussed.)
@mona
Meanwhile, the actual owner of card number 12345678910 mysteriously finds their credit card debt cleared up by a mysterious benefactor
Maybe this person is getting a new bench seat for their pick-up truck.
Halifax is a bank in the UK, and if he is anything like the rest of the country, he has gone overdrawn and needs to level his account so he is in the black again.
I wonder if "pick up bench" is a place, as in THE pick up bench....KINKEH.