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When life decides to make shitty events align in such a way that you could possibly starve or die....

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I used up the last of my school-mandated meal plan yesterday. Later that night, I went to the ATM to pick up cash for going to some bar. My account is not working.

Yay.

― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Friday, 15 October 2004 14:24 (twenty-one years ago)

blog it!

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Friday, 15 October 2004 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Can't you borrow money from friends?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 15 October 2004 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

You should probably go to the bank and get it figured out, you know?

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 15 October 2004 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I *hate* borrowing money.

― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Friday, 15 October 2004 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

My bank is like .... 500 miles away.

― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Friday, 15 October 2004 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)

so I pretty much depend on having a working ATM card for money

― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Friday, 15 October 2004 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe you should switch to a bank in the town you live in.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 15 October 2004 14:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe

― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Friday, 15 October 2004 14:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Or just, you know, call your bank.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 15 October 2004 14:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I *hate* borrowing money.

Yeah, but isn't this a force majeure situation that would make it acceptable? I hate borrowing money too, but when an ATM swallowed my card on a friday night a couple of years ago, I thought it was okay to borrow from a friend.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 15 October 2004 14:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe you can get some emergency funding from your Students' Association or something? Or try your local Food Bank? Or rob a gas station?

― Huk-L, Friday, 15 October 2004 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I'm going to whine.

― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Friday, 15 October 2004 14:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Call your bank, now. This happened to several friends of mine in college due to the bank continually overprocessing late/overdraft fees etc. and the bank was not happy to admit they made a mistake, so it's best to stop it right away. and then once that's sorted buy lots of ramen to live on for the rest of the semester.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 15 October 2004 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)

The McDonald's dollar menu has your name on it, dude.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 15 October 2004 14:37 (twenty-one years ago)

see also, Taco Bell.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 15 October 2004 14:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Go dumpstering! DIY!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 15 October 2004 14:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I know *WHY* my account stopped working. My bank is merging with another , but my new card hasn't gotten here.

― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Friday, 15 October 2004 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I need to meet freshman girls with meal plans....

― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Friday, 15 October 2004 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

This is Katie getting back at you because you don't like Franz Ferdinand

― TOMBOT, Friday, 15 October 2004 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

This is happening to me right now, too. I'm broke as a joke. Luckily I have friends who feel sorry for me.

― battlin' green eyeshades (Homosexual II), Friday, 15 October 2004 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Mandee I like your new name.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 15 October 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, going to see your students association might be a good idea, I don't know how they work in the US - at one of my unis you could get up to £200 as an emergancy loan, which came in handy a few times.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Friday, 15 October 2004 14:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Dumpster diving isn't a bad idea, actually, I've done it several times myself. It's free and ecological. Find the nearest grocery store and see if you can access their carbage bins. You'll probably have to do with vegetarian food, though, because you rarely find meat out of dumpsters, and meat goes bad way faster than vegetables anyway.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 15 October 2004 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Dumpster diving isn't a bad idea, actually, I've done it several times myself. It's free and ecological. Find the nearest grocery store and see if you can access their carbage bins. You'll probably have to do with vegetarian food, though, because you rarely find meat out of dumpsters, and meat goes bad way faster than vegetables anyway.

The supermarket in my neighborhood closed because the owner of the chain wanted to expand and couldn't because of NIMBYism. So he just closed the store. Ouch.

Also, I have no bike :(

― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Friday, 15 October 2004 15:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh. What's NIMBYism?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 15 October 2004 15:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Not In My Back Yard

― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Friday, 15 October 2004 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=define%3Animby&btnG=Search

― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Friday, 15 October 2004 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm extremely grateful for the help of my best friend this past summer. I have trouble asking for help from anyone, and barely make enough to eat sometimes (If I pay my bills). We always share things when we have them, though, and during one of my worst broke-times in a while, she gave me better food than I'd had in a couple of months.

― Pangolino (ricki spaghetti), Friday, 15 October 2004 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)


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