I enjoy having a separate prepaid cell number for nothing except the association of cards, bank accounts, etc. I am usually pretty good about paying my bills, but there’s something fun about having my vmail message say, “Thank for calling. Please note that you were given this number because I do not ever, ever, ever answer it, and if you do not leave a coherent message in understandable English, you will have zero chance of collecting from me whatever it is I owe you. Cheers.”

Ah yes , I remember. An episode of Boston Legal where Alan Shore mentions in a case closing EVERYTHING you just posted word for word minus the Citibank references. Yes I was a fan of Boston Legal too and agree that many of Alan Shore’s(the character played brilliantly by James Spader) closing arguments are a great example of good writing. Should you not at least give credit, Mr. AC, rather than post some TV writers’ work as though you thought of it yourself? Hmmm? AC, your comment looks like a good example of plagiarism to me.

Boston Legal Season 2 Episode 13
from the transcript: http://www.boston-legal.org/script/BL02x13.pdf

Alan Shore: “When I was eleven years old there came a
time when the temptation to explore the more secretive
recesses of my older sister’s life became more than I
could resist. I started by poking around in her room. I
ended by reading her diary. My defense, she kept it
right out in the open under her the mattress. And the
little metal clasp on it was simply no match for the
paperclip and the screwdriver. I was eventually caught,
prompting
my sister to have a lock installed on her door. The
only consequence of the invasion of my sister’s privacy
was the temporary loss of her confidence and trust. The
invasion of Jacqui Hayden’s privacy led to her being
stabbed and left to bleed to death in the street.
Privacy and the safety and security that word has
always implied has with time and technology become an
illusion. A National Security agency has access to all
our emails the world over with its echelon system.
Virtually every website you visit installs a delicious
cookie on to your computer which is in fact a
spy to track you’re every move. There are predators out
in cyber space collecting data on your children while
they innocently type away in chat rooms. And that
little waiver you’ve signed in the doctor’s office
mostly likely allows physicians to share your
information on the internet with insurance companies,
the government, your employer and the courts. Make no
mistake; access to your information is easy. All you
need is a person’s five digit zip code, gender and date
of birth to uniquely identify eighty-seven percent of
the US population. That is how vulnerable we are. How
vulnerable you are. Well Benefits says they could not
have possibly foreseen the actions of an abusive spouse
intent on causing his wife harm. Let me tell you what
Jacqui Hayden could not foresee. That after years of
cruel and violent debasement at the hands of her
husband, after she finally found her way out
of the shadows she didn’t foresee that the people she
most trusted with her health and well-being would lead
the darkness right back to her door. And now she’s
dead. Well Benefits made it easy for Ned Hayden to find
his wife. As easy as looking under a mattress.”