Apathy Sketchpad

I thought, for a long time, that the most useless piece of paper I would ever be mailed was a voucher from @jakarta. Since a friend of mine worked there, I had a loyalty card. Since their prices weren’t great and I’m not that interested in computer games, I never bought anything. Therefore, they mailed me a voucher for zero pounds and no pence. I had planned to buy nothing, use the voucher, demand a receipt, and then take it back a few days later and demand a refund, but I lost it.

Recently, though, I got back home after a couple of weeks in the new house, to find I had two pieces of mail, both of which transpired to be bank statements. The first had a fairly healthy list of transactions (and a whole penny of interest). This was dated 6 August. The second statement had only one entry, and that was “Balance carried forward”. This was dated 9 August. Precisely why the Halifax felt it necessary to mail me a blank statement for a period of 72 hours I may never know, but I am not alone. Around the same time, a friend of mine (with Lloyds, not the Halifax) recieved a bank statement for four days. I doubt I’ll ever know what’s going on.