Thursday, March 29, 2007

Donations gratefully accepted

If it weren't for money, we'd all be a lot happier. We'd all be a lot poorer, but happier in the knowledge that everyone else was as poor as ourselves. Do you agree?

What I want to know is this: Why am I in so much debt? Granted, it's not unmanageable, but it's debt nonetheless. I'll tell you why - because I have a degree, and that degree was obtained in England. The land of the GBP - and the lack thereof. The sheer act of going to Uni every day got me into debt. The banks threw money at me in the form of overdrafts and credit cards, all because I was a student. And now look at me! Barclays Bank Enemy No. 1 and on the run.

I'm a veritable criminal.

I won't even mention the other financial institutions who would most likely pay good money to have me back in the UK under lock and key.

My problem is my conscience. I can't sleep at night due to excessively vivid imaginings of men in suits knocking at my door (not in a good way), and nasty debt collectors scanning the globe trying to discover where I've got to and how they could possibly catch me and get me transported back to the land of mist and fog. So, I've decided that I'm going to pay it all off. That's right - I will use my hard earned cash to pay off my debt. It's a strange concept, I know, but one which I think is wholly necessary for my sanity.

Ah but hold on - I thought I'd concluded that all my sanity was gone and I was bereft of all rationality and sense of 'the real'.

Have I changed my mind?

Does anybody care?

1 comment:

Adrienne said...

I hear you love. Pay that shit off and be done with it.

Or at the very least make a token payment, so it appears that you've tried.

That should ease your conscience... at least until you can drink again!!