posted 2006/06/16 at 17:59
Several weeks ago Mark got hired on full-time at the place he had been temping at. Earlier this week the company sent him on his first business trip, to Philadelphia, and he just came back about twenty minutes ago or so. Sadly, he has come back with a tale of financial woe that rivals the one that plagued me when I made my North Carolina trip in March.
See, what happened was that the company sent him out with a female co-worker and said that this trip was going to be all-expenses-paid. Once the two of them got to Philadelphia, though, they found out that the company hadn't paid for the hotel room, and that they were only going to be reimbursed for it later. The hotel room was around $150 a night, and Mark only had about $100 of cash or so on his debit card. (Apparently the other woman didn't even have that much money with her.)
What wound up happening was that yesterday my sister had to have my father go to Mark's workplace (remember, Heather doesn't drive), pick up his latest paycheque, then go to the bank and deposit it into his account. Needless to say, this isn't the best of situations right now, even though it looks like everything will get resolved much sooner than my situation was.
Still, for those of you who wonder why this family tends to stick together so much and not travel, both this incident and my problems in March should provide a good clue: Bad things happen to us when we try to leave this place. Seriously.
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