Of Man and Computers

A man got a credit card bill stating that he owed $0.00. He ignored it
and threw it away.

Next month he got another, did the same thing. The next month they sent
him a very nasty note stating they were going to cancel his credit card
if he didn't send them $0.00. He called them, talked to them, they said
it was "a glitch" and told him they'd take care of it.

The following month he tried to charge something and couldn't. He
called the credit card company who again said they'd take care of it.
The next day he got his bill for $0.00 stating that he was very
delinquent.

The man figured the credit card company would take care of it, so he
didn't worry. The next month he got a bill for $0.00 stating that he
had 10 days to pay or his account was going to collection. He mailed the
credit card company a check for $0.00, and the credit card company's
computer processed it, noting that his account was now paid in full.

A week later, the man's bank called him asking him what he was doing
writing a check for $0.00. He explained and they said, "well, your
$0.00 check has caused our check processing software to fail. We now
can't process ANY of our checks from that day electronically because
that $0.00 check is causing the program to abort."

The man, who had been considering buying his wife a computer for her
birthday, bought her a typewriter instead.