today hasn't been that sort of day
Oct. 14th, 2016 07:02 pmSo I'm looking at my bank account online this evening, because Reasons, and making sure I'm all square with various things, and I see that the most recent transaction is a payment to the gas company for an amount that is approximately five times our most recent gas bill - a bill I pretty clearly remember scheduling, though, for the amount that is actually due, to be paid next week when it is due from our joint account, so how on earth is this 5x gas bill already gone from my personal account? And just before I start to flip my lid that omg someone has managed to access my online accounts and is writing checks for random amounts to random utility companies ...
... I realize that the 5x gas bill amount in question is in fact exactly the amount of my most recent phone bill. And that "Verizon Wireless" and "Washington Gas" are adjacent on my online bill pay list of payees. And that what I did was pay my phone bill to the gas company (a) a week before the gas bill was due and (b) instead of paying it to the phone company.
So that was fun. We'll have a few months' worth of credit with the gas company, at least, and of course the phone bill is late but not disastrously so, and I went on the app and paid it immediately with my credit card, so it won't get worse and shouldn't show up on my next phone bill, and I certainly hope that won't happen again. I'd say "it's been that sort of day," but it hasn't, really - only the day I paid the bills evidently was. :-}
... I realize that the 5x gas bill amount in question is in fact exactly the amount of my most recent phone bill. And that "Verizon Wireless" and "Washington Gas" are adjacent on my online bill pay list of payees. And that what I did was pay my phone bill to the gas company (a) a week before the gas bill was due and (b) instead of paying it to the phone company.
So that was fun. We'll have a few months' worth of credit with the gas company, at least, and of course the phone bill is late but not disastrously so, and I went on the app and paid it immediately with my credit card, so it won't get worse and shouldn't show up on my next phone bill, and I certainly hope that won't happen again. I'd say "it's been that sort of day," but it hasn't, really - only the day I paid the bills evidently was. :-}