Call and talk to a "REAL" person and tell them that others decide in LIKE 30 SECONDS...WHAT IS WITH THE 30 DAYS??? I WANT MY ANSWER NOW...I CAN'T WAIT FOR 30 DAYS!!!
GEORGE Don't think I didn't do that! "We're sorry sir - but sometimes it can even take up to 6 weeks!" JEEZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
37. You find yourself wondering when they'll come out with the "Highly Enriched Weapons Grade Plutonium Visa". lol
When you already work for a major credit card company, but still lurk in the shadows of the Creditnet board waiting to read what people have to say about your business.
39 When you get more excited about getting an updated Equifax report with six deletions than hearing that your ex finally has a court date scheduled for failure to pay support.
40. When you have serious debates and discussions with people who go by names like Psychdoc, breeze, numnuts, and a guy who ends all his posts with aarrfff !
41. When you come up with a plan to use all the information you've leaned on creditnet to help your children develop their credit. Then you realize that you dont have any children (SH_T you havent even been having sex because you're too busy checking out the discussion group), so you talk to all your friends about how they can help their 3 and 4 year old children develop their credit. I need THER A PYYYY.
42. (slight variation of Matt's #19) When you complete your online application for credit card, you cross your fingers and toes, adjust your seat, secure your drink (coffee or beer), take a deep breadth, turn the music on and hit the "apply" button and get the ultimate pleasure from the suspense during "processing your request..." message as if you were waiting for the roulette wheel to stop after bidding ten thousand dollars... 43. You are a consultant and you are at a client site on a high profile project and you get a few minutes to get online and you check creditnet first and then your own work webmail. 44. When your brother/sister/girlfriend calls and their names show up on your cell phone, you press 'silent' button on your cell - because you are busy surfing credit net.
46. when you feel compelled to notify the board that you are going on vacation (or will be away on business without access to a laptop)
47. When you misspell "experience" not once, but twice, in an internal memo at work. It's got an "a" in it, right?
48. When you find yourself having difficulties falling asleep at night - debating with yourself how to respond to EricAdams post re Responded to Credit Card offers before I turned 18.
49. You spend time helping newbies on CreditNet and 1 month later, their scores are higher than yours!! 50. In the middle of sex, your outlook inbox lets you know that you have mail, and you are sure its an answer to a post you just started. 51. you change your name to "creditman" and start a cult following so u use thier scores to accumalate the highest credit limit possible!!!
52. You get up in the middle of the night to go "POTTY" since you drank too much PEPSI...you decide to check to SEE what's new with CREDITNET...
53. You go to Las Vegas over the weekend (and lose 600 bucks - but that's another story) with your significant other and your significant other's cousin and when you see him pay his room with an Amex Platinum Optima you start explaining why he'd be better off with the Amex Blue (lower apr) even though he didn't ask - and your significant other begins jabbing you in the side to shut up already. (True story
54. Daughter is 20, plans to marry in two years. just now has first credit card with BofA. You're already asking if she has any idea what long term boyfriend's credit report looks like, expressing concern about accuracy of tradelines on student loans and CC payments (since I know he has both.) 55. Trying to educate daughter about FICO scoring model so when they apply for a mortgage....THREE YEARS FROM NOW... their scores will be in the 700's. 56. ROFL laughing about mail in CAP1 offer TO LET ME COSIGN to get a LOC of credit for my 16 year old son. Pardon me, make that ROFLMAO ! I never even knew how PRM's worked until CreditNetters !
