lies and misspelled words

Do you want our money? August 17, 2010

Last summer my husband and I went to this cute breakfast place in Wrigleyville. We had a nice overpriced meal, spent some quality time together, and then we paid and went along about our day. Right? No, wrong.

We stayed in the restaurant for over 30 minutes just trying to pay our waiter. In retrospect we should have just skipped out on the bill since it was overpriced and our waiter was nothing to brag about, but good citizens that we are, we stayed and tried to get that waiter’s attention. I kid you not it was over 30 minutes of flagging, giving him the “we are done nod,” making the check hand symbol in the air. We were honestly running out of ways to get this guys attention. And you would think he would want to turn over our window table. Eventually we stopped another waiter to let them know we just want to pay. They couldn’t take care of our bill but said they would let our waiter know. Five more minutes pass and finally our waiter comes with no sort of apology puts the bill down and runs off. So we continue to sit at our table with our credit card hanging out of the bill envelop which is as far off the table and in sight as it can be without falling off the table all together. And again we wait. Is this honestly happening? I have never seen someone so uninterested in my money before. I don’t even remember if we tipped him when he finally came back, but judging by the fact that we bolted out of there I believe we stiffed him. Sorry man, but it was clear you just did not want our money. And we have better things to do than sit captive in your restaurant all day.

Recently my husband and I bought a house in Madison. We are all settled in and currently are trying to organize our finances. My husband discovers that we do not have the paperwork we need to pay our mortgage and with an upcoming trip and the deadline approaching we realize we need to take care of this. We call our loan agent, email him, call him again and no response. We call again and finally he gets back to us. But what he tells us is that 1. We should be getting a welcome packet with that information and 2. There is a document in our loan paperwork that will tell us how to make our payment. We have not received a packet and do not have that documentation we tell him. He replies, “well you really should have gotten that in your loan papers.”. But you know we just don’t have it. Which leads me to the question for everyone out there –

Do you want our money or not?