It Sucks …. right to the end of the tube

It usually happens in threes’ they say and it usually happens in threes’ frequently say I. The wife’s pay for instance… it generaly arrives habitualy by direct deposit to our account on Friday mornings. This Friday it didn’t happen as some form of glitch forced her employer to provide a hand written check….
That very evening I sat before the puter to order on line a new rifle barrel that I’ve long lusted over. I placed the order to that distant manufacturer of fine rifle barrels and offered my payment via PayPal. I was immediately rewarded with two quick emails in response. They both wished to congratulate me simultaniously on orders #1888 and #1889. And it didn’t take long to notice my PayPal acount had been hit twice for the one and only required barrel . It is with great hope this can be rectified with some degree of efficiency…but somehow I know better
Saturday morning as we made our rounds I noticed the allure of the bright green OPEN signs above the drive up of our bank.
“Lets just stop and deposit the check.” Is what I said to Mags.
And so we did just that. We signed the check and filled out the deposit slip and placed them both in the clear plastic cylinder. I pressed the button and watched as the vacum sucked both cylinder and check away at great speed and suddenly…..suddenly I found myself wait for a response longer than I ever have before. That wait was so friggin long it forced me to exit the vehicle and walk over to the bank itself where I discovered that…they aren’t open on Saturdays.
I came home to access my work schedule on line. The Big Box where I work gives internet access to our ever changing schedules and the ability to print it out. Well at that very moment the printer gasped its last living breath on earth while the money required to to replace it sat at the end of a vacum tube hopefully only until Monday