in the backyard this morning!!!
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Cross-postable to “adulting someone else’s kids.”
I wrote up a letter for bonus kid m to get their mom’s credit report. This letter explained that mom was deceased, we needed a copy of the credit report for proving fraud by mom, sent a copy of mom’s death certificate, sent a copy of m’s original birth certificate [to show mom was m’s mother], sent a copy of m’s legal name change [to tie the original name to the current name, which is what we’re trying to work on], explained that mom died without a will so there’s nothing to present for power of attorney over the estate, … I thought I put it all together really clearly.
Letter arrives today from TransUnion. Highlights:
- Upon receipt of a death certificate for [mom], we can notify the other credit reporting agencies and have [mom]'s credit report marked accordingly.
- We have no credit report record for [m’s original name], we only have a record for [m’s current name]. Please send documentation to establish a legal basis for requesting [m’s original name]'s credit report. If you are requesting a copy of a credit report for m, please do so in writing.
- To request a credit report for [mom], please provide a written request for [mom]'s credit report. Please include a copy of the decedant’s will or estate papers and a copy of a power of attorney document showing you have power of attorney over the estate.
I’m just
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No will
No power of attorney
No Dice
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Small annoyance: Either expiration dates or production dates on sunscreen need to be much easier to find.
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I’m part of a volunteer org full of old boomers. What a bunch of ding dongs. During covid when we met by zoom, many of them felt the need to eat their meals with camera on during the meetings. that’s pretty uncouth.
Now we’re back to in person meetings, the org leaders send out status updates by email. Which leads to the of-course series of reply all emails. “that’s great” - reply all, ‘wonderful’ - reply all. ‘when’s the next meeting’ - reply all. etc.
I guess it’s not a big deal to delete an email, but in 2024, even boomers are young enough to know better than hitting reply all.
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Reply all will be a trigger in my villain origin story.
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It’s not a party until three people have responded with some version of ‘please stop hitting reply all to these emails.’
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the reply-all-a-pallooza remains my guiltiest work-place thrill. more rare than they used to be. i hope they aren’t going the way of the wheat penny
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And then those who reply-all to that with “Stop hitting reply all! Omgwtfbbq!?!?!?!”
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Insurer: “Provider X is out-of-network, Provider Z is in-network.”
Us: does services with Provider Z.
Health Care System: bills under Provider X.
Us: “We didn’t see Provider X, we saw Provider Z because Z is in-network and X is out-of-network. Please rebill for Provider Z.”
HCS: “It doesn’t matter, Z uses X and both are in-network.”
Us to Insurer: “According to HCS, both X and Z are in-network.”
Insurer: “No, Z is in-network, X is out-of-network. Why don’t you just pay the bill?”
Us: “Because we specifically saw Z because you told us X was out-of-network, and HCS is billing for X.”
Insurer, 30 minutes later: “Oh … yeah, X really is in-network. Sorry. We’ll reprocess that.”
3 weeks later …
Insurer: “Yes, I saw that you called about this claim. What seems to be the problem.”
Us: “You told us you were going to reprocess it as in-network. We’ve seen nothing on it.”
Insurer: “Um … who told you that?”
Us: [details on the call, names, reference number, etc.]
Insurer, 15 minutes later: “Oh, yeah … well, we might have said we were going to reprocess the claim, but we really need you to say you want the claim reprocessed. Do you want us to do that?”
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My gf and I were at a small fundraiser for a local, Christian based charity. They had desserts, tea and coffee set out for all to enjoy.
It was all fine and dandy until I saw… I saw… rai-SIN butter tarts!!! 
And be printed in ink that sunscreen doesn’t smear to illegibility.
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I bought a 2 pack of pillows to replace a set of old ones that I stuffed in the garbage can today. I open up the new pillows package and there’s a hole in one of the pillows. Now we’re down two pillows until I can exchange them.
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A breathing hole so you can sleep face down?
what happened to the other one?
I threw two pillows away, which were to be replaced with the new package of two pillows. I have to bring both new pillows back to exchange.
no pillows for guests? Hate to ask how bad were the old ones?
Random churning credit card has hit the $1,000 spend requirement, but won’t give me the welcome bonus until my next statement in 3 weeks. So it just has to sit here on my desk until then.
Reminds me I need to open another card, we need to buy a new freezer. May as well get ~$200 off of it.
Same! And i had my kid join, so he’d have the option later.