for a public records request. I asked for copies of as-built plans for a shopping center and subdivision adjacent to to a small project that I am surveying. The project was approved in 2005 and for some reason is just now finalizing. 140 lf curb and gutter and 1 CB.?ÿ?ÿ
You see, this city wants the as-builts to be on a coordinate system that is different than the project because, I am guessing here, so they can paste my CAD file into their GIS.?ÿ
The invoice, mailed to me by the way, indicates it is for 2 minutes of "copying electronic records to file sharing site at $0.85 per minute".?ÿ
I am thinking of putting 7 quarters in an envelope and mailing it back as payment may be cash or check.?ÿ
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My wife and I had an account at a certain bank. At one time it was our main household account. We changed banks and drew on the funds remaining in the old bank until there was just 10 cents left.?ÿ She went in to close the account and they demanded a $10 account closing fee. Naturally she refused to pay that. For years they mailed us a monthly statement showing the 10 cent balance, until they finally closed the account for inactivity.?ÿ?ÿ
You laugh but my wife taped a BUNCH of?ÿdimes to Christmas cards and sent them to a small city in South Georgia as payment for a speeding ticket for 60mph in a 55mph zone.?ÿ Her one and only traffic ticket in nearly 50 years of driving.
Andy
I've kept a few checks over the years as a reminder of how strange some people are.
A $5,585 check sent for a $585 survey to set a couple monuments in 1994 sent by a client's trophy wife that had hoped I would bring the check by in person.
A $0.72 check sent to balance a penny pencher's books.
A $40 reimbursement check from a disgruntled employee who was not man enough to come by the office for his last pay.
I remember dropping 50 pennies in the bin, to cross the bridge into Iowa...
Ridicules!
I remember when I first started electronic banking. I forgot the decimal point when I paid my $40.22 electric bill - took me 3 weeks and 6 days to get it back!!
To be fair though, maybe somebody should write to them suggesting that they charge a minimum fee of say $10, to make both the bill and the payment seem worthwhile.
I got a bill from the IRS for 11 cents once.?ÿ I didn't pay it.
And then there's this:
I been thinking about putting together 200,000 pennies to pay my ex wife's attorney bill. I am not sure how many FedExs that would take.
A few years ago, we gave our field crews advance per diem and whatever they didn't spend, with receipts to account for the spending, had to be returned.
An I-man didn't agree with this so he returned his $100+ dollars in a wheelbarrow, in pennies.
T. Nelson - SAM
I have a one dollar bill (with my stamp on it) taped to the back of both my licenses.?ÿ From the first money I earned with them.
Andy
I got a cranky letter earlier this year from the state employee tax agency (for a nanny) that I'd calculated the taxes incorrectly to the tune of $0.02. Maybe unusually, they didn't bother to ask me to pay it.?ÿ
A few years back my accountant made a transposition error on a Form 941 (monthly withholding statement) and I overpaid something like 27 bucks on my monthly deposit to the U.S. treasury.?ÿ In about sixty days the IRS notified me of the error, kept the 27 bucks and charged me an additional 145 bucks for "improper filing fees and penalties".?ÿ I was madder than a wet hen and tried telling them how I felt...but it was difficult because the IRS agent on the other end of the phone only used English as a second language....?ÿ
True story.?ÿ I still have the correspondence in a file labeled "You won't believe this".