here i go, slipping further into this kangen water business. i haven't tried to sell it to anyone and already i've received a commission check. my mom said something about us going to the bank today. (i didn't know about the check until we were at the bank.) i thought there was some group account and we have to add my name to it. we had to wait a long time for service. i stood up at first but after 1 hour passed, i sat down. are we opening an account in russia? were all the employees formerly employed at the dmv? what's going on here? there was only 1 employee opening accounts and the same couple were being attended to ever since we arrived. we weren't even next in line.

as we were waiting, the employee handed those who were waiting some paperwork to start filling out and it got me talking with my mom. i wasn't here to add myself to an account, i was here to open up my own account. my mom has a bank account just for keeping track of the commissions and she wanted me to do the same. though my mom's account is a checking account that she wants to change to savings because she claims it was a mistake and she wants me to have my own savings account, which under her orders i am never to withdraw the money (and shatters any idea of the commission funding my trip to okinawa).

i wish she would've told me exactly what she was thinking from the beginning. it would have been so much simpler for me to go to the bank when i had time and do it myself instead of together. but when we were actually opening the account, she wanted her name on it too, you know, for emergencies so she could make withdrawals. i kept trying to dissuade her because she doesn't have a valid reason to and she kept going back and forth on the joint account thing. she was thinking that i might go somewhere and not be able to make a deposit and the only way to do so is if her name was on the account too. even the banker was telling her that as long as you have a deposit slip, anyone can make a deposit. withdrawals on the other hand can only be done by the person(s) whose name is on the account. she was also trying to say how she wants separate accounts only for commission for the purpose of keeping track how much we are earning on this venture and i told her she could have complete access to the bank statements, that when they arrive in the mail, they are hers. but that wasn't enough for her liking.

if my mom would outright say that she wants the commission addressed to me, it's hers. i could just hand over my checks to her or deposit them and write the same amount to her. or she could add me to her account and that'd save us the business of opening an account for me but no, the more we talked about it, the more she was adamant that my checks go into a joint account. you know, just in case. hmm, i smell cuttlefish. 20 years later you'll see me on vh1 on some show about child stars whose parents spent all their income. only, i'm not a child star and i haven't done anything yet to earn this check which i've already received. hmm, that smell is getting stronger.