When you purchase a home, or a car (or anything that you have to make monthly payments on), the collection agency will send you a book of payment coupons that look like this:
When I bought my condo in 2010, I was presented with a booklet of coupons that look just like these, but nobody told me how to use them. In my world, a coupon was something you clipped out of a newspaper for a discount on a 10 inch pizza. Puzzled, I brought the booklet into work and asked my co-worker and friend, Helane, what these were for.
"There are only 12 in here, so does that mean I get like... a discount or something on 12 payments throughout the entire time I own the condo?"
At the time, Helane didn't know me well enough to laugh directly in my face (something she has no trouble doing now), so she stopped for a moment to gather herself.
"No, sweetheart", she said. "These are just the little slips of paper you turn in with each monthly payment that show your address and account numbers so they can keep track of who is paying for which condo... Does that make sense at all?"
"Oh... so why are they called 'coupons' then? That's not what a real 'coupon' is at all. How are people like me supposed to know this?"
Seriously, though! Call them something else! Coupon is already taken! They're the things that bored housewives collect in binders to bring to the grocery store and get 125 dollars worth of food for 77 cents...
It's things like this that make people think I'm stupid, when really, I'm just a special thinker.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
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