> My favorite story along these lines was from a guy I knew in the army
> (who was, even in the `60s, far geekier than many today when it came
> to
> computers, etc.) who had taken out a department store account while he
> was working in Washington, DC, and after being drafted, when he was
> going to Vietnam, wrote them a check to pay off his balance and close
> it
> out. Almost immediately, he started getting overdue notices, demanding
> payment of $0.00. After a couple of months, the threatening letters
> followed him to the helicopter unit he was at in Dong Tam, and were
> getting progressively nastier, the bill would be sent to collections,
> etc. He would dutifully write them back and tell them he didn't owe
> them anything, to no avail. Finally, he said, he realized that no
> matter how many letters he sent them, this was just a programming
> error
> that no one had felt was worth bothering to fix, so he sent them a
> check
> for $0.00, and no more trouble.
Did they cash the check?
Phil Ethier West Side Saint Paul Minnesota USA
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