lenda urbana. e velha. On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 08:25:44 -0300 "Claudiß" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
C> Olha o que poderia ter acontecido, PSP: C> C> In March 1992 a man living in Newtown near Boston Massachusetts C> received a bill for his as yet unused credit card stating that he owed C> $0.00. He ignored it and threw it away. C> In April he received another and threw that one away too. C> The following month the credit card company sent him a very nasty note C> stating they were going to cancel his card if he didn't send them $0.00 C> by return of post. C> He called them, talked to them, they said it was a computer C> error and told him they'd take care of it. C> The following month he decided that it was about time that he C> tried out the troublesome credit card figuring that if there were C> purchases on his account it would put an end to his ridiculous C> predicament. C> However, in the first store that he produced his credit card C> in payment for his purchases he found that his card had been cancelled. C> He called the credit card company who apologized for the computer error C> once again and said that they would take care of it. The next day he C> got a bill for $0.00 stating that payment was now overdue. Assuming C> that having spoken to the credit card company only the previous day the C> latest bill was yet another mistake he ignored it, trusting that the C> company would be as good as their word and sort the problem out. C> The next month he got a bill for $0.00 stating that he had 10 C> days to pay his account or the company would have to take steps to C> recover the debt. C> Finally giving in he thought he would play the company at C> their own game and mailed them a check for $0.00. The computer duly C> processed his account and returned a statement to the effect that he C> now owed the credit card company nothing at all. C> A week later, the man's bank called him asking him what he C> was doing writing a check for $0.00. C> After a lengthy explanation the bank replied that the $0.00 C> check had caused their check processing software to fail. C> The bank could not now process ANY checks from ANY of their C> customers that day because the check for $0.00 was causing the C> computer to crash. C> The following month the man received a letter from the credit C> card company claiming that his check had bounced and that he now owed C> them $0.00 and unless he sent a check by return of post they would be C> taking steps to recover the debt. C> The man, who had been considering buying his wife a computer C> for her birthday, bought her a typewriter instead. C> C> C> C> C> C> On 3/28/06, Paulo Sérgio Pinto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: C> > Eu hoje melhorei muito, mas já fui muito encrenqueiro. Um dia, recebi C> > nota de cobrança da Casa José Silva de zero real. Preenchi um cheque de C> > R$0,00 (zero real e zero centavo) e levei a nota ao caixa. Entreguei-a à C> > caixa junto com o cheque e pedi o recibo. A mulher me olhou com uma cara C> > espantada e me disse que eu não tinha que pagar nada. Disse-lhe: C> > "Senhorita, recebi a fatura e quero quitá-la. Favor receber o meu cheque C> > a fazer a autenticação mecânica pois tenho pressa." Ela embarcou no meu C> > jogo, e carimbou R$ 0,00 no recibo. Durante muitos anos guardei essa C> > nota "quitada". C> > C> > Hoje, num exercício sem nexo, fico imaginando se aquele cheque tivesse C> > sido apresentado e voltado por falta de fundos. :-) :-) C> > C> C> C> --- C> C> Não leve nada pro lado pessoal. Apenas divirta-se. C> C> Comentários: www.yahoogroups.com/group/goldenlist-L/messages C> C> Newsletter: www.yahoogroups.com/group/goldenlist/messages C> C> Yahoo! Groups Links C> C> C> C> C> C> C> C> Allgemeinen Anschulterlaubnis Cardoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - SkypeIn: (11) 3711-2466 vida digital: http://www.contraditorium.com site pessoal e blog: http://www.carloscardoso.com --- Não leve nada pro lado pessoal. Apenas divirta-se. Comentários: www.yahoogroups.com/group/goldenlist-L/messages Newsletter: www.yahoogroups.com/group/goldenlist/messages Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goldenlist-L/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
