so, here i am in san antonio, tx. far away from everything i have ever known. well, almost everything...i did go to school in indiana (take it from me, that is not exactly culture shock compared to home). but this, this is different...

frustrations of a leasing tenant

why do they insist on needing the money in the form of a money order? is my check not good enough? what do i have to do to prove that i am more than able to provide monies to pay rent on an apartment. apparently, for them to be satisfied, i have to wait in line twice at the h.e.b. and go to a cash advance place where they tell me i have to have over 600 dollars in cash to get a money order. in addition, my bank, which is in good old minnesota, does not allow me to take out 600 dollars from an atm machine. i have to do it over a period of 3 days. that is right, count them...3 days. and to beat it all, my debit card will not act as a debit card...it will only act as a credit card. of course, the h.e.b. will only allow the use of debit card, no credit cards. so i have to pay over 6 dollars in atm fees just to carry around a large sum of money to get a cashier's check to pay the apartment people exactly what they want and how they want it because...once again, my check is not good enough for them. and to top it all off, i have no more days of permissive leave to take. i have to try to take care of all of this in off duty hours. whoohoo. that means nothing will be open and i will run into every road block imaginable, but that is ok...all for the american public in my pursuit to protect their grand freedoms as part of this nation's superior air force.

The DRIVE and ME

So, I tell you, it is dangerous to leave me in a car by myself for 22 hours. Things like this can happen...dangerous, very dangerous...

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