The City of Chicago is making my bank account sad today. I owe a bunch of parking tickets, so I decided to pay them online. So I go to the website, type in my license plate, and it says “Okay, deadbeat, you owe us this much money for your parking tickets. Click here to pay.”
I click there to pay. Type in my info. Then it says “We could not charge your card because the zip code was wrong” or whatever. “Click here to re-enter information”.
So I try my old zip code, thinking that might work. Nope. Zip code is still wrong. I click to try again.
I do this a total of four times. Never works.
Then I look at my online bank statement.
My “available balance” is $800 less than it was before I started that adventure. And I was paying $200 worth of parking tickets. Therefore…
THE FUCKING THING WENT THROUGH EVERY TIME.
And to add insult to injury…according to the website, my tickets are still unpaid.