I invest through Nesbitt-Burns. But my advisors keep retiring and I keep getting new ones. And they always wand to talk to me face to face. So I was meeting with a new one today at 6:00 in the evening. Downtown.
My god! Parking was hell. He said that they would validate my parking. I assumed that it would only be the parking for Manulife place. But I couldn’t find it. I had the address, but I got confused with Scotia Place. They have the address on the front of their building, for a different street.
Manulife place is supposed to be at 10180, on 101st street. So driving up 101st street, I see Scotia Place on the right. They have the number 10160, so I look for Manulife on the right. But if you look closer at the address, you can see that it is 10160 Jasper Avenue. A different street. So that completely threw me, because Manulife was on the left.
I give up trying to find Manulife parking, and take Scotia Place parking. I then find Manulife across the street. When I finally talk to the advisor, he tells me that the parking access is on 102nd street. A little tidbit of information it would have been nice to know!
Parking ends up being $3.50. That’s all the change I have. I have been running on banking fumes right now. A previous investment earlier this summer drained my account to below $1,000. When it is below $1,000, I have to pay service charges. Since it was below that for part of August, I don’t want to withdraw more money.
I was hoping that in September I would be above, but the credit card bill, and a few other surprise charges have put me a bit below. I get paid Friday, but that doesn’t help. If I’m under for only a day in the month, it’s enough. This is the first time this has happened to me. I have always had the minimum balance before, and I’m cranky about paying service charges. And now I have another month of trying to use my bank account as little as possible.
I’ll be surprised if I get sympathy from anyone.