| | Every once and a while a little thing within our economic system will tick me off. Today it's service charges.
I'm getting ready to move so I called the Electric company to transfer service.
In order to do this they need a $130 deposit...I'm ok with this. They spread it out over 3 months and once you've paid your bill for 6 months in a row you get it back.
I had to pay $44 dollars of that deposit today...the fastest option was to go to lo-bills and pay in person.
So I got in my car and headed over to Lo Bills
I get there and they inform me that there will be a $2 service charge. (Ok I guess I'll take the hit)
I go to pay with my Debit Card and the lady gets upset with me and says, "we only accept cash or check, no credit or debit cards"...her attitude bothered me. But I wasn't going to make a big deal about it since there was a nearby ATM machine.
So I walk up to the ATM machine and there's a note saying that there will be a $2.50 charge to get cash. This is where I decided out of principle, to drive to my bank and use the ATM machine there to avoid the $2.50 charge.
So I drove to my bank and put my card in the machine, and it gave me an error message and took my card. What the heck. I'm just getting electricity for my house and trying to avoid service charges.
I came back home and began to wonder how much of my money is directed to service charges? I'm sure within a given year I spend at least $100 in little $1.50 fees.
Then all of this triggered a thought...How many of the things do I do in my life that I believe to be necessary or good, but in the midst of doing them, find that there is something taxing about it. There's a hidden "service charge" if you will. Last week I took a personal retreat at the Catholic retreat center. I find that once every three months I need a whole day to collect myself. To find all the pieces of my being that got broken and scattered.
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I've lost the drive to maintain this blog...but overall life is good. I couldn't ask for more. I'll be going to Mississippi this week to help with some hurricane relief and I'm looking forward to that.
I'll be getting licensed so that I can perform my first wedding (that's weird for me to think about)...but it won't be a bad gig to have every once in a while.
I'll be preaching again in May and I'm excited about that. |
| | Posted 4/23/2007 6:26 PM - 66 Views - 6 eProps - 4 comments
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