It's lunch time, and I'm eating BBQ sandwich I made.
I bought a rack of port spare ribs that were 50% off at Safeway, and paid $6.98 for it. I also bought a bag of buns (8 ct.) that was 79 cents after promotion. I cooked the spare ribs in my clock pot with a couple of onions, Cattlemen's BBQ sauce, and some maple syrup. It was our dinner last night and we still had a lot of left over, so I brought some to work for lunch.
The maple syrup I used is a gift from someone we have never met.
In December 2006, I was checking my bank account as usual, and noticed a deposit of $1,000. I asked my husband if he knows anything about it, but he had no clue. So, we called the bank and asked for a copy of deposit slip which we had really hard time to read. The only thing we could figure out was the deposit was made somewhere in East Coast (I forgot what state it was...) by Mr. A. We have no realatives in East Coast, and had no idea who Mr. A was.
We told the bank this deposit is a mistake even though deposit slip had our account number, and asked them to reverse the transfer. But the bank (BoA, by the way) could not do anything about it. They told us to take the money out and write a check for Mr. A. Well, we don't know who he is or where he lives! Plus, why do we have to go through all the trouble??? We didn't do anything wrong.
So, my husband googled Mr. A and found his phone number!! (How did we survive before Google???) DH called the guy and asked him what this money was about. It turns out the deposit was for his son who is in service and lives in CA. His son is married to a Japanese girl whose name is very similar to mine, and she has an account with BoA.
Mr. A told us he went to the bank and asked a bank teller to help him fill out the bank deposit slip. The bank teller searched in the system and found me instead of his son's wife! Well, the bank teller wrote down our account number she got from the system, and the money was transferred to our account. Boy, it's scary or what!!??
This money was a Christmas gift for their son, and this poor old couple had no idea we received the money instead of their son. Mr. A also contacted the bank after DH called him, and the bank gave the money back to Mr. A and transferred to his daughter-in-law's account. Few weeks later, we received a bottle of maple syrup from this old couple.
maple syrup
February 12th, 2008 at 08:42 pm
February 12th, 2008 at 09:22 pm 1202851375
I'm sure that father was grateful!
February 12th, 2008 at 09:37 pm 1202852239
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February 13th, 2008 at 01:34 am 1202866449
BA,
I got the recipe from slow cooker cook book, and it adds good flavor to BBQ sauce. I really like it.
February 13th, 2008 at 03:39 am 1202873988
I still can't get over the fact that BOA didn't do anything about it. One time I went in w/o my deposit slip and the girl looked up my account. She then proceeded to tell me I was still negative, to the tune of close to $600. Ummmmmmm ... wha?!?! Turns out the girl she was looking up had the same first and last name and the same middle initial. She also lived in the same town. Wasn't me though. She quickly was able to fix her mistake ... but I deposit a lot of my money through the ATM since they don't send you enough deposit slips to last very long when you deposit money nearly everyday.
February 13th, 2008 at 09:10 pm 1202937000