My Morning Wake-Up Call

Don't you just hate it when you get one of those calls that comes seemingly at the crack of dawn from the various banks you have car loans with that you don't actually get to the phone in time to answer so you have to check that message....

Only to find that it says that they are from the bank and have an urgent message for you and to please press whatever number to hear that VERY important message...

Of course you are listening to a voice-mail and consequently cannot possibly press any number to get that very important message and they have very politely chosen to NOT leave a callback number where a sane and concerned person might actually return the call and find out WHAT THEY WANTED AT 8 A.M. in the morning!

So, at the crack of dawn, in your drowsy, sleep-deprived state, you begin to wonder if you remembered to pay your car-note last month...

Then the paranoia sets in because one month has suddenly merged into another and you really CAN'T remember ('cause you re still sleepy, of course, and not yet thinking properly.)

So there you are in your nightie still, no coffee in sight, suddenly finding yourself trying to fire up the computer so you can check your bank statement to see if you actually did remember to pay...

But your computer hasn't woken up yet either, so it's actually running slower than you are at the moment, which is really saying something there!

So, there is this huge moment where you just do not know what to think, what to believe.

Then you finally DO know for certain as you see it in black and white on your bank statement, and in the green of the bank website confirming that in fact you really HAVE remembered your payment for the month in question.

Now you are quite ticked because these idiots are calling you at the crack of dawn for WHO KNOWS WHAT REASON!

Because all that you know is that you are relieved because you really did remember to set the payment to credit on time, like you were SUPPOSED to do, and these idiots are calling you for probably some cold-calling product offering rot!

It is now only a little after 8 in the morning and you're now wide awake and have a headache over having thought that for the first time in the life of your car-loan that you might have actually FORGOTTEN to make that payment on time.

But you didn't forget, did you. So it doesn't feel nice. It doesn't feel good, even though you haven't done anything wrong.

In fact, you should be feeling relieved, and really quite proud of yourself as you have yet to miss a payment yet and it's always been punctual to boot, but you don't

Why? Because of course you still haven't any clue what it was that these folks wanted in the first place at 8 o'clock in the morning.

So, somewhere in the back of your mind, there is still this nagging feeling that is really quite unmerited, unwelcome really.

I know that I've paid, even done so on time, and done nothing wrong. So why is that feeling still there? Why don't I feel any better?

Ah well, 'tis breakfast time for triplets. These people were actually up before my babies. Time to try and put them out of my mind!