Financial Quandry…Caused By MY Pea Brain
There’s a post on this blog somewhere when I made fun of my husband’s financial know-how. Well, I’m going to have to take that all back now because of something very sketchy I did.
If you have said or done something dumb lately, or need a boost in confidence for whatever reason, I’M WRITING THIS POST FOR YOU. When you start feeling down, you’ll be able to think to yourself, “Hey, I may have screwed up. But at least I’m not as dumb as Holly Kay.”
I live in Southern California where rent prices are atrocious. Our rent is almost $1600 (and our apt is definitely one of the cheaper ones in our area, I know sad…I wish we could live in the dangerous part of town where rents are less than $1,000 but I can’t as I have to think of our children…) ANYWAY…
I was just balancing our checkbook. Low and behold, look at my carbon copy rent check. I should have written the $1600 check to our landlord. Well, I didn’t. Guess who I wrote the $1600 check out to. Multiple-choice:
1) I wrote my rent check for $1600 to myself.
2) I wrote my rent check for $1600 to my landlord’s dog.
3) I wrote my rent check for $1600 to a pizza place, Round Table Pizza (like Pizza Hut but tastier).
Unfortunately, if you chose #3, you were right. Yes. I wrote a check for $1600 to a pizza joint. (NO, I didn’t even do this while ordering pizza. I simply wrote the check out to the pizza joint for $1600 and gave it to my landlord.)
Off to clear up this chaos. Hm, and I was kinda hopin’ to work today. Oh well. Don’t care. Don’t care about check to pizza place. Don’t care about work. Only care about my children and husband today. (Clearly, the insomnia has taken a toll on my pea brain. Will continue to try new sleeping routines and hope they help.)

July 14th, 2008 at 5:50 am
WOW!
Expensive pizza.
I once wrote out all the bills and mailed them the day before we left on vacation oh… about 18 years ago… and forgot to deposit the paychecks into the bank. OUCH!
July 14th, 2008 at 9:21 am
at least you didn’t give the check TO the pizza place.
July 14th, 2008 at 10:25 am
Thank you for your story, Beth!
I do at least have the consolation that this check won’t bounce. I did deposit the paychecks, therefore, worst case scenario, the pizza place cashes it.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH. Get it? I minimized the worst case scenario as if it wouldn’t KILL me if that happened.