and the hits just keep on coming…

When running bad, I like to remain indoors for fear of almost certain bad luck should I leave the safety of my room. This generally limits me only to online pain, but if I don’t play online and don’t leave the room, I can generally eliminate beats altogether.

But I’m running so bad, the beats have found a way to hit me, even when I stay indoors. I am sleeping peacefully when the rude ringing of the phone awakens me, brutally cutting short my dreams of Natalie Portman and avocadoes. I have developed a little technique I do in my sleep where I pick up my phone and answer, and if the call is not important, I apparently have this ability to hang up and remain asleep without ever actually waking up or remembering the conversation. I am assured of this fact by numerous sources. However, today the caller intrigued me - it was my banking manager calling to ask me about $10,000 charged to my Visa card overnight. I was wide awake pretty quickly, wondering if I’d forgotten some trip to the Rhino.

It turns out the wonderful staff at Rio Hotel have attempted to charge $10,000 to my Visa in a 24-hour period. No. 10 by Tanqueray is not cheap, but either my drinking problem is much worse than I thought, or I’m being heavily overcharged. More importantly, hotels only hold credit cards for security purposes, with all bills settled when you check out, so no charges were possible.

Normally, I would enjoy this opportunity to box the ears of the staff responsible, but with sleep deprivation, I promised myself I would remain cordial and polite until the matter was resolved, which would allow me to get back to sleep as quickly as possible. This lasted for about 3 minutes, when I couldn’t deal with the stupidity of the front desk manager any longer. She didn’t know the difference between authorising a credit card and actually charging it, and she’s a hotel manager. We went back and forth for some time with her assuring me I was merely imagining the entire phone call and that no charges had been made to my card.

Now, had I been thinking clearly, being a man of not inconsiderable ability to think clearly in a crisis, I would have realised that the only explanation for her having her job with her limited intellect would be that she is ungodly smoking hot. Nothing else could possibly explain how someone this stupid has a management position. Had I been able to think clearly instead of fantasising about sleep, I could have been really baller and cool and hooked up a James Alexander Cox Zero tuning effort on her. Unfortunately, I am a moron and doomed to never going on a date again. Instead, I roundly berated her, and demanded to speak to her supervisor, advising her to go draw with some crayons whilst I took care of business.

I don’t know if her male supervisor (general manager I think) is hot or not, or whether he slept his way to the top, but its definitely possible because he also turned out to be a Grade A moron. He also insinuated I imagined the entire thing, implying he had better things to do with his time. I had to resort to getting my bank manager in Australia to call him, which she did immediately.

He rang back quickly to apologise and promised to look into the whole affair, saying he had never come across anything like this before. It’s now 8pm and he never called back.

So I have $10,000 visa charges floating in intraweb hyperspace somewhere, I missed out on a chance to Zero-tune an almost certainly stunning hot manager, and I’ve had little to no sleep. I don’t want to tempt fate by wondering if I could possibly run worse, but it does beg the question….

(Update 16/07/07 - So after leaving about 10 unanswered messages on manager’s answering machine, receiving only one reply over 4 days or so in which he promised to continue with the investigation, I ring my bank in Australia to ask what the deal is. The deal is pure tilt from my normally unflappable bank manager. She was furious. She said, “This guy has to be either attempting some kind of fraud or completely incompetent. He continually claims his system shows no sign of the $10,000 in charges. Yet the charges are showing up as Rio Hotel and the money is withdrawn from your account. He won’t return my calls so I’m putting in fraud charges with VISA against that hotel and returning all funds to your account.”

Freaking Rio morons.)

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