I just recently changed my account from a bank I had used for over 30 years to a credit union. The bank originally had free checking until a few years ago and then started charging me a $3 "statement fee" every month (I refuse to do online banking). A few months back they added an $8 "service charge" for a total of $11 a month or $132 a year.
The credit union has totally free checking (including mailed monthly paper statements). They also give you 100 free checks every year (real close to the number of checks I used last year).
The only "gotcha" they have is that you have to maintain $5 in a separate "member" account.
They're not as close or convenient as the bank but I've got my Social Security check going to be direct deposited and expect to need to make very few trips there except for the occasional ATM withdrawal. And, they are very close to a Harbor Freight so I can pick up tools when I'm there.
2019-01-05 at 7:55 PM UTC
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Lives that you've changed
I used to manage a Vickers gas station and early one Saturday morning an assistant manager at another station called me up complaining that she couldn't make that morning's pump readings come out the way they should. I went over and ran all of the numbers and they wouldn't come out for me either. I then went through them pump by pump and figured out the pump that wasn't coming out properly. I went out to that pump and it showed 15 or so gallons for under $2 yet the several dollar per gallon pricing was correct. I got a lock and locked up the pump.
I had the assistant manager call in the guy who had closed the night before. I showed him the locked up pump with the proof staring him in the face that he had changed the per gallon price to pennies per gallon to fill up his tank last night and then reset the price back. His mistake was that he didn't reset the pump to zero out the evidence.
Seeing the evidence, he confessed.
I knew and liked the guy. I let him go with the promise that he would never do it again. He had been in prison before and I felt sorry for him. I probably could have impressed management and made supervisor had I kept the pump locked and called in a supervisor. Still, I'm pretty sure my actions that day changed his life.
I'm a retired neurosurgeon, nuclear physicist, rocket scientist, lawyer and professional bass fisherman. So, it varies.
I also sell swampland in Florida.
2019-01-04 at 10:52 PM UTC
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Madonna is a filthy whore...
It's time for someone to post that T-shirt with the guy with the one scrawny arm and the one muscular arm.
2019-01-04 at 10:44 PM UTC
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Madonna is a filthy whore...
There's a confirmation of looking at my link.
Tell me, did your arm get a good workout, Larry?
2019-01-04 at 10:41 PM UTC
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Ban cupocheer
But then she wouldn't send me any more nekkid pictures.
Send me some more nekkid pictures to my inbox, Cupo.
2019-01-04 at 5:38 PM UTC
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I Just Laughed Out Loud
It's no big thing (I heard).
lol
2019-01-04 at 4:56 PM UTC
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I Just Laughed Out Loud
The wait is almost over.
It's on tonight on ABC at 9, 8 Central.
Watch it with someone you love.
Guys...HIDE THE KNIVES FIRST!!!
Is that Chuck on the infamous DH video giving the horse a BJ and having his mouth explode?
I think you might need to find a doctor who says you have glaucoma.
2019-01-01 at 10:53 PM UTC
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Still don't know who matt is
Bad Matt = Wishes He Was Well Hung.
2019-01-01 at 10:18 PM UTC
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Still don't know who matt is
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Bad Matt.
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Good Matt.
