Still have the player that crapped out about a year and a half after we bought it. If it went on our debit card, do they keep credit/debit card purchase records that long? I'm sure the receipt and all is probably long gone.

You know you really don't "have" to get your daughter's shots. As a parent, you are in charge of her health and wellness. I think every parent should read up on every single thing that will be going into their child's body, especially when they are infants. You can forego all vaccinations if you like, or you can choose a "delayed vaccination schedule" whereby you stagger the vaccines so your child does not get 3 or 4 at once. There seem to be particular problems with the barrage of vaccines between 12 and 18 months. My son is 2, and he has received only the shots that I received when I was a baby (the communicable diseases, such as measles, rubella, mumps, etc.). I am not giving him the Prevnar because that one was developed to vaccinate against a rare strain of meningitis but is being marketed to protect against ear infections. He's never had one ear infection - he doesn't need it. Likewise he's not getting a chicken pox shot or a rotovirus shot. It's up to you as a parent to do some digging and take a stand for your child's well-being. If your pediatrician doesn't like that or somehow threatens you - find a new pediatrician. Remember that you are a consumer of healthcare just as you are a consumer of any other product.

Well, I can advance the possibility that part of the reason they might not have been able to tell the difference between the two transactions has to do with the way they order transactions on your account. My husband and I use Wachovia for our checking account, and I don't know if they always do this, or only when it appears your account might be close to overdraft, but we have had this happen on several occasions where we can go into our account in the afternoon and see that a few transactions have cleared, then if we check it the next morning it seems that the order of the transactions has been changed to make the largest one go through first, thus causing overdraft sooner and making smaller transactions hit overdraft. So that $6 worth of coffee at Starbucks ends up costing close to $50. I know that on my individual checking account at the credit union, they don't fool with such shenanigans - they put things through at the moment they come through electronically and don't re-order them after the fact. But maybe Wachovia intentionally doesn't do a time stamp on transactions so they can go in and adjust them later??

If you really want a laugh, you should check out the Contract of Carriage for one of the discount airlines. I'm a travel agent and booked two tickets for a friend on Airtran a few months ago, and her plane sat on the runway for 3 hours before they got everyone off the place and told them they were putting them on a different plane. Her original departure time was 7 AM and she didn't actually leave until 2 PM. She emailed me from her Blackberry while she was on the plane asking if there was anything I could do. Unfortunately, the discount airlines' contracts of carriage basically say "we'll get you somewhere in the vicinity of where you want to go, at whatever time we can get you there and you have no recourse whatsoever".