Coincidence?

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Monday August 12, 2013 · 12:34 PM PDT

2013/08/12 · 12:34

Something really weird happened to me today. My daughter (who lives near Spokane, WA) and I (I live in IN) were talking about me going back to Verizon because I had too many dropped calls on my current provider. Less than 3 hours later I had a phone call from a robot telling me I had $400 waiting for me if I checked in to a Verizon Web Center. This was the first call I have had from Verizon since I changed to the new provider. Coincidence?

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Thursday March 17, 2011 · 9:41 PM PDT

2011/03/17 · 21:41

This evening, while checking through television shows, I stopped for a bit to check up on the NCAA Basketball Tournament. I was kind of po'd when the Tourney Smarties decided to put all the Indiana Teams in the same bracket, but decided to see who won/lost today. Of course I ended up seeing the last layup for Butler that let them advance to a date with Number 1 Pitt. Then I thought back to last year.

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Wednesday August 12, 2009 · 4:18 AM PDT

2009/08/12 · 04:18

Most of us here have spent many hours writing, emailing, or calling our Representatives and Senators in regard to health care reform. By most accounts there is a solid majority that want, indeed need, substantive reform; and yet, if the media is to be believed, we are losing that argument.

My story is just another one to be added to the list of those SOL journals. One month after I was dropped from "full time" to "part time" at the grocery store where I worked (same number of hours btw) and lost my health care I ended up in the emergency room at Wishard Hospital and spent the next 30 days in ICU. Shortly after returning home the bills came. 1,000 for this, 2,000 for that, adding up to about 12,000 dollars...then came the big bill for $60,000. Try working on those bills on a grocery clerk's salary. Due to my physical condition I was forced into early retirement. Keeping my fingers crossed, I will be on Medicare early next year.

This is not meant to be a meta post, but I would like to point some fingers (and no, not that finger alone).

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