Hmmm…
The brokerage has come to terms with the stock split mentioned recently.
But the money transferred between checking and brokerage is still in both places.
Hmmm…
I would get all excited, but there’s the strong possibility that this could get ugly. I envision both companies looking at the other’s accounts and saying “oh, the money is over there” and simultaneously deleting both instances from existence, with no paper trail to speak of.
I can’t wait to find out how it ends. I might do the noble thing and alert somebody to the discrepancy, but I’m sure that would only aggravate the situation and usher in the aforementioned worst-case-scenario.
Hmmm…..
Oh, please, please, please do not notifiy them. You will send them into a horrible swivet. Just try not to think about it.
I found over a quarter million dollars in my checking account several years ago. I called and begged and pleaded for them to take that money back (because I am weak). Instead, they started putting more in there.
They kept telling me it would level out or something and just leave it be.
The last time I asked a teller, she said that if she were me she’d withdraw that money and put it in a savings account until they asked for it, and then give it back but keep the interest.
At that point, I turned right around and rode up the elevator to some vice president’s office and told him he needed to take that money and take it now because it was Rich’s Shoe Sale and I could not be trusted with that money or responsible for anything that happened after I left his office.
You better believe he got on the phone and hanneled it. But it was fun being wealthy for a while.
A quarter million?
Wow. Just wow.
It’s a much bigger wow when I tell you that at the time I was working at the paper and grossing $13,000 a year, and I made a good many of my own clothes (because I like nice shoes).
I could not seem to make them understand that to a girl who puts herself on a $5 a week spending allowance and $20 on the weekends, a quarter of a million dollars is lunch everyday at the Magnolia Room, and all the shoes and lipstick I could tote.
Good move. You would have owed the money and the interest back to the bank. If you use money that you know that you have no right too, it is bank fraud. Even if it is their mistake.
It is one of those funny cases where the act is only illegal if you know that you are doing something that you shouldn’t.
Kind of like planting “Oriental Poppies” in your yard. Until you know that those are exactly the same species as “Opium Poppies” it is perfectly legal to grow them. But once you do, you are a drug dealer. So, I better not see any poppies in your yards this year.
Well, crap.
Thanks a lot.
Does any body want a yard full of Oriental Poppies?
I’m not asking for any particular reason, mind you.
If you see anything growing intentionally in my yard, it will be because a) the world is coming to an end, or b) because I paid someone to do it. I have the original brown thumb.
I had a friend in colorado who had that. There was only one place where things would grow, and only one thing grew there. You see, he had this roommate who liked to relax after work on the porch with a bowl and a brew. He would dump the dregs of both off the edge, where the one would water (although I suspect when no one else was there he watered that patch in other ways) the other and sprouts would appear and flourish.
Your friend was growing soup?
If that’s what the kids are calling it these days.