Welcome to the wild and wacky world of wire transfers which is essentially like inputting data into a computer or searching for something using a search engine but maybe having misspelled one of the words.
When I started working on the wire transfer of funds from our bank in Lynchburg to our bank here in Paris it's become apparent that I failed to be specific enough about what we wanted deducted out of Cassie's check and what we wanted "left" in the account which again was my fault, not that bank's. I had wired some money to Cassie in the previous months but with everything else I had happening I never checked to see how long the wire transfer took although we found out how dollars translate into euros which was quite a revelation.
There are also vagaries within various data systems that don't post deposits or transfers in a timely or "real time" fashion. Then add in the time difference and you have what my colleagues in the Army used to refer to as a GRF (Giant Rat F*&%) which is what happened yesterday which was the first day of the "automatic" fund transfer. When I checked our account online in the US yesterday evening (noon there) our checking account was zeroed out completely. Since we'd programmed some payments to be drafted out of the account you can imagine the panic I felt but naturally I was unable to immediate reach our banker there and an astronomical amount of money had be wired to our bank account here but checking that account it showed we had (and still have) 13 euros which won't buy much here in the 16th arrondissement. Cassie is in Geneva today and even though it's 10 am I might consider doing what our pals Tray and Joanne Eppes call "day drinking".
I was concerned our bank had made the error but it was me who made the error by not being more specific. Lesson learned. Gee I hope our money shows up somewhere. Perhaps Angela would take us in if we need food.
Love to all......*
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