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Please tell me about a time when you were screwed

well, recently, buying stamps in december, to hear at the postoffice in januari they are not valid anymore,
how??? is that not screwed, at 2 euros a piece i feel that
it's daylight robbery

I can only think of one scenario;
That one time I fell flat at 5th grade and broke my front tooth.

It turned into a decade long chronic headache and malformation of it's neighboring teeth.

Then without my say so took out more than one tooth.
Sure, it cured the chronic pain, replaced it with a tooth bridge... Again, without my say so, took out 5 all because 'it didn't looked right'.

When I only have problems with 2, unnecessary took out 3.
Yes, I don't have most of my upper front teeth no thanks to this.

Now I have to deal with years of porcelain toothbridge issues because I cannot afford anything beyond that for a while. And I'm not well enough to bother with dentures yet.

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There was the time I decided to become a normal citizen after living somewhat off the grid for a few years. I bought a house, but they wouldn't give me a mortgage unless I went onto the electoral register, so I did that. Very soon afterwards the council were after me for unpaid poll tax. I'd seen in the local paper that the council wouldn't go after anybody who made them a reasonable offer, so I did that. Then I got a letter from them saying "thanks for the money, but we're still coming after you for the rest of it." I can't remember how much they got me to pay, but I've always resented it because not long afterwards they had to abolish it because of the public outrage about the fact that it was rather a regressive tax.

According to wiki the last state poll tax was repealed in 86.
I was always confused by hotel bills in the US.
The price was always augmented by federal tax, state tax, city tax and occasionally miscellaneous taxes. Sometimes they were a significant addition to the advertised price.
I remember Australia having some extortionate sales taxes (on imported goods particularly...so tariffs) but they were usually included in the advertised price.
It was only the replacement of sales taxes with a unified goods and services tax that allowed business to advertise prices as +GST, as the rate was fixed, but these days GST is generally included in advertised price.

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The poll tax I was referring to was in the UK in the early 1990s. It was a right-wing change to local taxation, which had hitherto always been based on the value of the houses people occupied - the poll tax was a flat-rate tax per individual. Not being on the electoral register didn't exempt you from liability, but being on it virtually guaranteed you'd get a bill, as the council would know who you were and where you were. As it made the rich better off and the less-rich worse off, there was such militant opposition to it that the gov had to abolish it and revert to something similar to the old system in 1993.

when i realized my "friend" wasn't coming back with my car. (2004) thank buddha, while i was riding a bike, two months later, i came across my car.

when i realized i gave my bank password to a hacker. (2023). thank buddha, the bank manager refused to lemmie withdraw the amount the hacker told me to withdraw, and as a result, the hacker wasn't able to take anything out of my account.

when i dropped a tool @ work. (2022)

when i realized that i wrote my former "friend" dena-bitch, a letter that called "kayla b***h", "kayla b***h". (rolls eyes)

when i flunked out structural engineering

when i got evicted

when i got made redundant

I've had two multiply screwed events in my life.
In the first, in the same week in '84, My house got burgled, I got beaten up at a party, I dropped out of my tech course, I got busted, my Dad died and I got evicted.

The last was in '23 and took a month during which my god-daughter was murdered the day before my re-employment/promotion interview and I froze and lost the job, my two closest friends died (cancer/heart attack) I lost my pyro ticket, my security clearance and my longarm licence, then my favourite sister in law died from a stroke.

I'm still recovering from that train wreck.