The bank manager leads the attack

There’s a war raging all around me. Most of it is money based. Will a payday loan help? I have searched everywhere and this looks like the best bet. The guys in the office all use it and swear blind that it’s the ultimate solution to an empty pocket. I was already thinking about prying an ATM loose and taking it home. I will try the payday loan system.

Leading the onslaught is my bank manager. He is constantly threatening to cut me off, whatever that means. What, from my overdraft? He wouldn’t dare! How will he explain this to his boss? So I live on an overdraft– I’m used to it and it doesn’t bother me anymore. I don’t understand why the bank manager is permanently hysterical.

My boss is in the front line too

Whenever I close my eyes, I picture the angry face of my boss. Not the general manager of the company but the head of the engineering department. He is only midway up the ladder, but he is still my boss. I guess he hates me because he feels threatened by the fact that I am the best engineer in the business and the fact that I am continually borrowing from the petty cash box.  I pay back the small loans regularly and it’s usually only on Fridays that I ask for a little something to get me through the weekend. Do you know what a game of golf costs these days?

In my opinion the petty cash box does a sterling job. It is there to be used and I make sure of that. How would you like to manage a library and hate the people who borrowed the books? Same thing, right?

Mother-in-law is the company back-up

My mother-in-law doesn’t like me. It’s mainly because I married her daughter and fathered her 3 gorgeous grandchildren but it’s also because I borrowed from her to buy the new car and I am a little slow in paying her back. She really gets to me and I have made up my mind to apply for a payday loan and get her off my back. Next month, for sure…

The rest of the battalion

There are a whole slew of guys out there crying for my blood and it’s all about money. I was at the lotto kiosk when Fred from up the street walked up. I suggested we split a ticket and he agreed. We bought one, we never won and now he wants my half. Okay Fred, I will cough up one of these days or perhaps I’ll pay for your half on another ticket sometime.

The vicar says I haven’t contributed to the New Roof Fund. I designed the new roof over the church for no fee and now he wants a contribution? Okay vicar, as soon as I can I’ll come over and see how the roof is coming along.

I surrender! Where do I apply for a Payday Loan?

My mind is made up. I am looking for a life of peace and serenity without phone calls and nasty letters. If I use the payday loan money carefully, will everyone please leave me alone?

Will Eddy need to take out cash advance loans? The recent buzz about Eddy Curry, former player for the Chicago Bulls, now with the New York Knicks, is that he’s being sued for $41,000. …  and a $5,424 bit of interest on top of that, by the Casual Male Retail Group. Why? Just a shopping bill that has gone unpaid since 2006, that’s all.

With all the money this guy makes, it’s no secret that he could more than afford to foot the bill. Or can he? Are times tough for Eddy?

The cost of high living…

First, how did this clothes bill get to be so darned huge in the first place?

Apparently, when he wasn’t donning his official team attire, he had very refined taste for items that cost a small mint. He bought dress shirts costing up to $350 each, for example, according to the Chicago Sun Times.

Among the things he acquired were a wool crew-neck sweater that came to $750, about $22,000 in suits, $3,700 in ties and a $1,390 cashmere v-neck sweater. (OK, this is even more than cash advance loans could help out with!)

Compulsive spending, or was there a driving force?

Mind you, this was all from clothes shopping between January and April of 2006. What’s going on here? Sure, he’s wealthy. And yes, celebrities often live extravagantly. But as far as clothes, few of us remember or even realize that appearance in mass media has a gigantic influence on this particular issue. This very influence affects Eddy, just as it would any celebrity, any time he appears off-game.

The one, unbreakable rule in mass media…

As anyone in television can tell you, appearing more than once in the same outfit on any screen of any kind is a huge no-no. It’s just simply not done. It’s the ultimate media taboo.

This even goes for suits, believe it or not. Even if you can’t tell the difference from one suit to the next,  the show’s credits mention the guest’s wardrobe and so do some newspapers and tabloids.

The chains that bind…

Think about it. If any such tabloid scribbling appeared in the mass media mentioning anyone onscreen, be they well-known or not, but especially a wealthy celebrity, wearing the same outfit twice, all Hades would come unchained.

This may seem a bit idiotic when you really think about it, but it’s nonetheless true. Sadly, this is just one of the many circumstantial manipulations of life that anyone in the spotlight must suffer and endure.

Some may speculate a mere communication blunder…

Could it merely be a misunderstanding? Perhaps this initial shopping spree soon after the move from the Bulls to the Knicks was thought to be on the Knicks’ tab and Eddy forgot about it all this time?

I mean, let’s consider the obvious. In my humble opinion, it doesn’t seem that Eddy has a single criminal bone in his body, and I certainly don’t suspect any malicious intent. Let’s not forget that as a professional player of his level, he certainly doesn’t make mere pennies on his payday.

Temporary problems can be solved momentarily…

Even if for some reason he was momentarily strapped for cash, cash advance loans against his next payday would certainly put an end to all this within a couple of hours. One last point to remember is that the media does have a tendency to harp on details and blow a big story out of them, when it may  just be a simple misunderstanding. After all, it’s all only a matter of paying a forgotten bill, simple as that.