it couldn't happen...could it?

A man once received a bill for his as yet unused credit card. it stated that he owed £0.00.

He threw it away.

The next month he received another statement saying he owed £0.00, he threw that one away too.

The following month the credit card company sent him a nasty note stating they were going to cancel his card if he didn't send them £0.00 by return of post. He called them and talked to them, they said it was a "computer error" and told him they'd take care of it.

The man then decided that if he actually used the credit card it would put an end to the matter.

However,

In the first place he produced his credit card in payment for his purchases he found that his card had been cancelled. He called the credit card company who apologised for the "computer error" and said that they would take care of it.

The next day he got a bill for £0.00 stating that payment was now overdue.

Now, having spoken to the credit card company only the previous day, he trusted that the company would be as good as their word and sort the problem out.

Fancy thinking that! the next month he got a bill for £0.00 stating that he had 10 days to pay or the company would have to take steps to recover the debt.

"I give up" he thought, and played the company at their own game and posted them a cheque for £0.00.

Success, The computer duly processed his account and returned a statement that he now owed the credit card company nothing at all.

Alls well that ends well..............or is it?

A week later, the man's bank called him.

They asked what on earth he was doing writing a cheque for £0.00. After a lengthy explanation, the bank replied that the the bank could not now process ANY cheques from ANY of their customers because the cheque for £0.00 was causing a "computer error" and the system to crash.

Guess what?

The following month the man received a letter from the credit card company claiming that his cheque had bounced and that he still owed them £0.00.

The man had been considering buying his wife a computer for her birthday, he took her to a West End show instead. He paid cash!

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