Full Time Care

I knew I shouldn’t have said things were getting better. It’s always the kiss of death. As soon as I’d posted that entry a couple of days ago, I had a feeling something was going to happen, and it has.

Quite apart from being treated like crap yesterday evening during my partner’s most recent bout of drinking, I woke up feeling awful today. When i went to check how things were at the bank, I got the surprise I’d been expecting: suddenly, the balance has dropped. The worst thing is that I don’t know why: like with most banks, they’ll quite happily reduce the available balance in preparation for something being withdrawn, but don’t immediately post the details. They wait until the transaction’s gone through to actually display what’s happening.

So today, I’m suddenly a big chunk of money short and I don’t know why. It looks like the tax rebate cheque I had deposited late was refused, so I shall have to contact the Inland Revenue to find out how to get another, for beginners. But that doesn’t explain everything. There’s still a lot missing. I have no idea why, but I have this ominous foreboding that something bad has happened. I hope it’s not something like the identity theft I went through last year - that was a total nightmare.

I hate it when banks pretend they’re being helpful with Internet access to accounts and so on, then deal with it in a totally old-fashioned, give-us-your-money way. It’s so two-faced.