Debt pronWatching TV the other day we caught one of these "Bank of Mummy or the Wife" type shows and we thought, "This is Debt Pron." I.e. peoples financial problems exploited for the voyeuristic pleasure of others. Then we thought, "We bet lots of people on B3ta have massive financial problems. Let's exploit them." So, confess them all. Dodgy credit cards, lending money to some bloke in the pub, visits from the bailiffs, using one card to pay off another. We want to wallow in your fiscal pain. So, what is your biggest money fuck up?
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rob, Thu 23 Nov 2006, 19:50)
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Back in 2004I was stuck in a shit job, living in a tiny house with three other people and had been paying pretty much all the bills. When My Grandad gave me some money, 4000 pounds was eaten up through paying for others! It gets to the point where I pretty much break and (having dual nationality) my family help me out of the situation and send me to the great land of Aus. Now, I'm trying to do the right thing and pay my debts but the electricity compnay goes against the payment plan and sends the bill to debt collectors. I phone said collection agency and have a conversation with a Liverpool woman who can only be described as a twat. After five minutes of arguing I say
'Look, I'll level with you. I'm on a payphone in Queensland right now. I want to pay this bill, and I will if you let me pay it in a way I can manage. If you won't help, well I'm probably staying here and you can just piss off.'
She argues more, I hang up. It's so nice being able to just fuck off and leave those people behind.
*edit* Come to think of it, Capital One are out three hundred quid and all.
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The Togaboy The world will end on, Wed 29 Nov 2006, 0:35,
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