@usefewersyllables
I will pay one penny more and just let it float.
It may confuse their computers, but still it is in
their debt ratio. Can't let a penny slide in this new
age of exact ability.

#5

I remember those. The college I went to was ruinously expensive at the time, and is much worse today- I have no idea how anyone of ordinary means can even think of going there now. Despite working as many jobs as I could fit in, I finished school with a 6-figure student loan debt, all of which loans were actually extended by the school itself. And I did indeed dutifully pay them all off, within the 10 year mandatory repayment interval.

I still remember writing the last check on the last date of that 10 years, with so much pleasure... I paid it all off, except for leaving a balance of $0.01 owed. And sure enough, they sent me a bill for that penny: every month, for the next 2.5 years. At the then-current first-class postage rate (15 cents at first, though it went up to 18 for the last bit), they spent $4.75 or thereabouts in the Quixotic attempt to recover that last lonely penny.

That's when it became clear to me that my college had, in fact, been taken over by MBAs. (;-)

You couldn't do that these days- you'd be in Gitmo so fast your head would spin. They finally just quit sending them one day. I still had that last bill framed and hung on my office wall, right up until the house burned down. That's one of the things I miss the most.

@usefewersyllables
at the beginning of each month from Wells Fargo notifying me they are unable to process the loan payment on my car. I paid off the loan in 2016.

#5

I remember those. The college I went to was ruinously expensive at the time, and is much worse today- I have no idea how anyone of ordinary means can even think of going there now. Despite working as many jobs as I could fit in, I finished school with a 6-figure student loan debt, all of which loans were actually extended by the school itself. And I did indeed dutifully pay them all off, within the 10 year mandatory repayment interval.

I still remember writing the last check on the last date of that 10 years, with so much pleasure... I paid it all off, except for leaving a balance of $0.01 owed. And sure enough, they sent me a bill for that penny: every month, for the next 2.5 years. At the then-current first-class postage rate (15 cents at first, though it went up to 18 for the last bit), they spent $4.75 or thereabouts in the Quixotic attempt to recover that last lonely penny.

That's when it became clear to me that my college had, in fact, been taken over by MBAs. (;-)

You couldn't do that these days- you'd be in Gitmo so fast your head would spin. They finally just quit sending them one day. I still had that last bill framed and hung on my office wall, right up until the house burned down. That's one of the things I miss the most.