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To: algore

Dealing with any account (bank, cell phones, utilities) nowadays makes me feel the same way. What hoops do I jump through next?


8 posted on 04/29/2026 11:51:57 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: Resolute Conservative

“Dealing with any account (bank, cell phones, utilities) nowadays makes me feel the same way. What hoops do I jump through next?”

One of my daughters was getting an apartment after college for her first big job. The paperwork was astounding and required a co-signer and a huge credit check.

I literally offered to just pre-pay a year rent rather than deal with it. Not an option.

Go through a ridiculous process involving AI and having to explain why I have no rental history (as in, I’ve always owned a house).

Get to marrital status. Say I’m married. Then they wanted all the same info from my wife.

After a moment, I changed my response to say I am widowed.

Worked.

Told my wife & kids on group chat.

Many humorous memorials flowed in from children.

Promptly followed by responses from my wife to things like “Mom, can I pick me up after practice?” whereupon she would reply “Sorry, I’m dead.”


26 posted on 04/29/2026 12:24:31 PM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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Yes in my case (I’ve never exhumed anyone!) I get frustrated that providing a cert. copy of a death certificate and proof of my identity. . . somehow ISN’T ENOUGH You have to do this form that form wait a few weeks then they want another form good grief.


45 posted on 04/29/2026 1:20:06 PM PDT by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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