10/15/2003 Archived Entry: "Pain, pain, and more pain"

I just got back from the gym, where my personal trainer hurt me like I have never before been hurt.

We did lunges.

With a 25 pound bar across my back.

FOR ONE THIRD OF A MILE.

(For you metric folks, that's about five hundred meters.)

My entire lower body is jelly. My ears are pounding.

I...am...dead.

In other news, today is the fifteenth, which means that today is the day to pay the car note--or, in my case, motorcycle note. I popped onto my bank's web site to make the payment and noticed, with no small amount of confusion furrowing my brow, that my bike note balance was higher than it had been last week--in fact, it was more than a thousand dollars higher than it was last week. In fact, it was higher than it had EVER been, even when I took out the loan. I was, in short, perplexed.

A check of the account history showed that there had been a $1,300 debit applied against my loan's principle. Curious as to why they would increase the amount of my loan--they certainly didn't have any of that $1,300 on my person!--I called the bank. The nice lady to whom I spoke told me that the bank had been notified that my motorcycle insurance had lapsed, and that the charge was the bank's underwriter charge for insuring my bike.

Excuse me?

In spite of the feelings of boiling rage, I did my usual bit where I act helpless and befuddled, and the lady took pity on me and told me that the charge could be removed, if my insurance company would fax to the bank proof that I was actually insured. Since I had just paid my insurance company not a week previous, I didn't think this would be a problem, and, fortunately, it wasn't. I talked to the nice lady at Progressive, who assured me that everything was fine, I was still covered, and that Progressive had certainly not sent my bank a notice that my coverage had lapsed. She faxed the requisite paperwork, and I called the bank bank and they confirmed that they'd received it.

So, we'll see how that shit works out.

Now, I have to go take a shower and then some ibuprofin, before the Deep Hurting(TM) sets in.

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