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by mbrameld 3956 days ago
You can't imagine a scenario where a responsible adult has had a checking account with a balance over $5000 for many years and has never run in to the charge for dropping below that level, eventually forgetting about that $5 fee? Now if you managed to picture that and believe it's possible for a responsible adult to forget about an obscure fee his bank has never charged him before, try to imagine your home's AC goes out in the middle of August when it's 100 degrees out. Now you're stressed out but you've got enough money in checking to cover the replacement that day, so you call somebody out to replace it and schedule a transfer from savings the same day. Can you maybe see just a little how a mistake like that could happen to a responsible adult? Do you have every possible fee your bank charges committed to memory?

And finally, are you trying to add anything to this discussion or just displaying your self-righteousness?