Story of my life

Ok so a few days ago I thought it might be a good idea to get the mail. This is not something I do very often because really its at the back of my apartment and I rarely ever get fun mail, and seriously who really likes to open bills. Anyways I got the mail, and I opened something that turned out to be a collection agency notice. Now I know what your thinking: if she doesn't open her bills maybe this isn't so odd maybe she doesn't pay them either. I pay all my bills I just do everything online, so the paper statement is just a waste of my time. Ok so back to the story. I open up the bill or notice or whatever the fuck you want to call it and its for (and not I'm not joking here) 8 dollars from the Chicago Sun Times. First off doesn't it cost more to try to collect 8 dollars then the stupid 8 dollars is worth in the first place. Its 8 dollars for gods sake. Second and that which I suppose is the more important point, I never signed up to receive the Chicago Sun Times cause I kind of think its a crappy new paper. That and I really don't read the newspaper.

So here's what happened. I was sitting at home minding my own business watching the TV or some such shit, someone came to my door. I got up an answered my door, only because my you can see right into my living room so its hard to pretend that your not there. I knew it wasn't someone I knew because my friends all have keys. Ok so its a guy from the American Heart association, looking for donations. Normally I would just say no, but for some retarded reason I gave the guy ten dollars. Apparently for this donation I was suppose to receive the Chicago Sun Times on Sunday for like a month or something as a FREE trial. I never actually received this free paper mind you. Never got a one. I didn't sign anything either, but I was given a donation receipt. So a few months later someone calls me from the Sun Times seeing how I was enjoying the Sunday paper. I told him I was not enjoying anything at all because I never actually got the paper. I believe his words were something like "oh really" and then bye.

A few weeks later I received something from the Sun Times which needless to say I threw out. I kept receiving them though so eventually I opened one, and it was a bill for like 2 dollars. Which I then proceeded to throw away because I already talked to the guy and told him I never got the paper, and we all know that I really don't like to call people. So imagine my surprise when I got this collection agency notice in the mail. Now I have to tell them my side of the story in writing. All this for 8 damn dollars which I'm not going to pay on principal. This is just stupid. Who does this happen to. Moral of this very ridiculous story don't donate money to people.