all I can say is ... what a fucking day ... so much in such a short amount of time


so here is what happens ... and trust me this won't be the shortened version ...


my mom and dad and I left the house around 9:30 AM to meet the realtors at the condo for the walk through ... David stayed home to study for his A+ exam and in case any of the many workers who have been here lately to fix our flood and leaky windows and shit came by ...


we went to the walk through and the place was great ... smells a lot like curry but that will eventually go away ... then we went to the title company and signed all the paper work ... I handed over a check and they gave me the keys ... woooohoooooo ... so excited ... I have been throwing money away on rent for 14 years ... it is exciting to know the money will no longer be going down the drain ... and the place has so much potential ... David and I will for sure make the place super and sell it for a profit in the end ...


so when I got home I came downstairs and got David and we headed to Starbucks ... he starts telling me a story about how 5 minutes after my mom, dad and I left the house some bitch from the testing center called and said his credit card didn't go through for tomorrows test ... now I keep track of our bank books and that statement struck me as odd ... there was plenty of money in the account for his test ... but he kept talking and said that he logged on to the banks website and it said he had $45 in checking but a bunch of money in savings ... I freaked out at this statement but David kept talking ... he said he then called the bank and asked why when the school put the charge through on his card for the test that they didn't use his overdraft and get the money from savings ... the woman at the bank told him that is what they did but that she was looking at the transaction and when the school put it through they didn't put the date in correctly ... it needed to be 07/02 ... not 7/02 ...


meanwhile David is still talking and in my head I am freaking out that he said there was only $45 in the account ... so he calls the school back ... gets it straightened out ... they put the charge through and everything works out fine ... so when he finished talking I whipped out his bank book and said ... honey you should have about $895 in that account ... are you sure there is only $45? ... he said he was positive ...


the second we got home I came down to the computer to log onto the banks website ... there it was ... 4 charges we hadn't made ... totaling almost $850 ... normally I would log onto the banks website once a week and check our charges but we hadn't used that account in almost a month ... over $350 at a Target, over $350 at a Sport Authority, $75 at a Holiday Inn Restaurant and over $50 at some Mini-mart ...


whomever used the card bought an XBOX and games ... XXL clothes ... shoes ... socks ... dinner ... gas and beer and smokes ... all sorts of shit ... I know this cause I called each of the places and everyone was so nice ... they all faxed me the receipts ... so I saw everything that was bought ... and his signature ... which by the way didn't even have the same last name that was on the card ... such bullshit ...


and everything was charged on July 4th ... a day when we didn't even leave the house and we had 10 people here all day ...


so we had to type out a letter to the bank saying we didn't authorize these charges ... and give as much detail as possible ... so I mentioned stuff like David weighs 141 pounds and just fits into a size Medium ... there is no way he could wear a XXL ... and that we don't drink at all ... and that all these stories were in Bowie Maryland which is an hour away from us ... and that we had 10 family members over and didn't leave the house all day ...


so now it is a waiting game ... to see what happens ...


it is such a fucking pisser ... we should have been all happy about the condo today ... instead we sat here freaking out that so much of our money is gone ... it isn't like either one of us has paychecks coming in ... that was weeks worth of living for us ... it just isn't right ...