*Sigh*<\/p>\n
Back in the fall, I was thinking to myself, “Hey, the van should be paid off in the spring or so — we can start looking for a replacement for the Saturn.” And then, to my surprise, we got the title for the Sienna in September. Huzzah!<\/p>\n
So I’ve been going along, making those New Car Plans since then.<\/p>\n
We continued to have the money pulled from Margie’s paycheck direct to the account that the old loan had been pulling from, basically so that we could save for the down payment. Last night I saw a statement from the credit union, and decided to read it for the first time in a while (since that was the only activity there), to see how much we’d saved.<\/p>\n
Uh … what’s this? Money’s still getting pulled into the new loan account. And … money is still being paid from that account, and there’s a balance still showing.<\/p>\n
Hmmm.<\/p>\n
So I call the credit union, explaining I have a nice, signed title cert to the van, and WTF.<\/p>\n
Hmmmm.<\/p>\n
Their records show it was a five year loan, which doesn’t sound right (I thought we went for a shorter loan, 3 or 4 years — I figured it was a 3 year when we got it “paid off” at the end of 2002). <\/p>\n
They have no idea why they sent us a signed title cert, and would like it back very much, thank you. (They mentioned this, very politely, serval times.)<\/p>\n
What they can’t explain is why their records show that auto loan is actually for a 1997 Accura, which, needless to say, we’ve never had.<\/p>\n
Hmmmmmm.<\/p>\n
They’re going to call us back. And, maybe, I won’t send back that title cert quite yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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