Monday, February 8, 2010

Too good to be true!

It was just another Monday morning. I was getting ready to go to work when I heard the familiar “toot” from my phone. Sms! Nothing urgent! So, I soon forgot about the sms. At the office, about 8.30 remembered there was the unread sms. It was just an sms from the bank. Okay the salary is in! Alhamdulillah! Then I first saw 7500 and thought to myself….”ada bonus ke bulan ni?” Am I supposed to get extra? Then there’s some deduction and the balance was 5200. That was a lot of deduction…why deducted so much. But then when I looked again….no, it wasn’t just 7500.00 or 5200.00. It was 7,500,000,000,024.29 and 5,200,000,000,027.30! Is this real??? I wasn’t even sure how to say it. Millions, billions, trillions?
I have always wondered how it feels to be filthy rich. And suddenly this morning, I received the sms stating that about RM 75 BILLIONS (is this right?) is deposited into my account! Could you believe that? I thought I desperately need a pair of glasses because my eyesight is really bad. Then I showed the sms to my friends and we counted the zero digits together. Yes, 13 digits! Every month I would receive sms from the bank when my salary is in, but now I am totally out of this world…. Ha ha ha! Bad, evil minds are beginning to work their ways in…he he he (imagine a witch about to put the last frog into the bubbling pot and cast the final spell!).With that amount of money I can do so many things! Fuyoo…. And my friends are getting excited too. Soon everybody in the department seemed to be thrilled with having a billionaire friend. There were..…lets go for a retreat abroad, give me just one percent please, can you pay for my house…blablabla…
Last month I also got more than RM 6000 extra in my account which I had to returned because of human errors…and don’t tell me now they made mistake again! And look at the amount! I don’t think the bank has that much money! Then my imagination was going wild. What if….some casinos or robbers deposited the money to a randomly selected account and I happened to be the unlucky or maybe lucky person. Then what if they wanted the money back and what if it was the mafia’s… I would be “mobbed?” or killed or “mutated?”(a bit ridiculous) or amputated….alamak….not nice at all!
So, I called the bank. But I didn’t get any answer and was thought to be joking! So unbecoming and unprofessional! The lady even said “POYO” to me! Was that the way to treat a client! Hello, this is a billionaire at the other end …yea! Anyway, decided to go to the bank with my account book and told the man at the counter about the sms.
That was the end of my “rich” moment! He he he, but that was fun. Later today received another sms apologizing for the earlier sms and the best part was…the RM0.30 charge for the sms will be refunded!
Okay, joke aside. This is no joke for one with a weak heart. Yes! A heart attack could occur with such news! Somebody said I could sue the bank for giving me false hope! And their staff shouldn’t react the way she did when I called for clarification. True indeed! But I believed, everything happens for a reason. So this is the second time for me this year. Maybe, I ll strike jack pot (literally)the next time. Who knows!!?

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