Hi! Throughout my entire life, along with my mother's, I've noticed a tendency for things to go wrong. Although that sounds dramatic, it's quite simply true. For instance, in the past 6 months, I'll list a few examples. - Financial Aid office sent accidental letter and admitted their mistake, now my loans will be disbursed later than the scheduled date. - Amazon seller sent the incorrect edition, I have pictures to prove and now taking steps to remedy the situation. - General Physician's nurses did not send him the request for additional prescriptions (insulin). So, days before running out, I had to call him and my previous endocrinologist to sort things out. - My insurance company failed to authorize prescriptions for a new endocrinologist, so fixing that took quite some time. - One of my two purposes for an appointment with a General Physician, to get a referral to an endocrinologist, was never submitted. Weeks after waiting to schedule an appoint with the endocrinologist, I had to re-visit the General Physician. - The business I purchased my bedframe and mattress from, M. Jacobs, sent the wrong bed (I have a twin XL frame with a twin-sized mattress). - Century Link, the business that provides internet service, charged me for things I neither 1) was aware of nor 2) agreed to. Therefore, calling them also took time. Additionally, they refunded the extra charges and apologized for their mistake. My list could go on for several pages. The question is this. I don't hear about anyone else encountering these endless mistakes and mishaps from businesses. Either they don't care or I'm unlucky. Does anyone else experience this?
Not usually, but I did have a wage garnishment for a student loan that got deducted 3 times from my work and it was paid off the first time. That took 6 weeks to reimburse the 1000 dollars. My car was also supposed to be fixed in January and for the last two months I've had the same issue but I don't have another 300 for it not to be fixed right. Oh and everytime I get food with someone else THEIR order is messed up and mine is fine. So I'm a bad lunch date.
Those sound relatively normal to me. There are tens of thousands of transactions that a given person is a part of in any given year. Way more than any of us ever realize. Did your ISP loose service while you were typing this post? Did the power go out? Probably not. If it had would you have added that to your list of things that went wrong? Probably. Humans are natural born problem solvers which means we are wired to focus on things that go wrong and filter out things that don't. The side effect is we sometimes view our lives as plagued by nothing but problems.