I'm going to break one of my rules here and talk about work. In generalizations, of course.
I don't know about your work place, but my office takes up money every month to pay for birthday cards, plants when employees get sick, or to buy the occasional breakfast. At Christmas, we pay for our employee Christmas party with the 'pot' so the November payment is always a little more. (The fact that we have to pay for our own Christmas party at work has been a bone of contention with me for years, but we aren't going there right now.)
Our office seceratry is responsible for collecting the money and she has no problem reminding you about your payment. She emailed us at the tail end of October to say when our party would be, how much we would need to contribute, and when we needed our money turned in by. No problem, right?
Wrong.
Two weeks ago, she emailed us saying our payment would need to be turned in a week earlier. Okay. I can do that. Then she comes into my cubicle three days ago saying she really needed our money by the end of the week (which is two weeks earlier than her last demand for money). I told her I'd have to wait until the end of the week when we got paid. She said okay.
Then she came into my cubicle yesterday saying she really needed the money tomorrow because she was going to be out Friday (a week earlier than the second demand (sorry request) for money). What I wanted to say was, "You keep moving up the date and I don't have the money because I WAS ROBBED!" I think I mentioned that a few weeks ago. Pretty sure I did because you asked if the office needed to take up a little offering to help me out.
But I can't say that to her because she's old enough to be my grandmother. Someone would come down from the skies and smite me if I said that to an old lady. Yeah, that's disrespectful, but really this lady is a the south side of retirement... and doesn't plan on it any time soon.
Long story concluded: I went home AND ROLLED COINS to pay my damn contribution for the Christmas party because I WAS ROBBED and have no money. Bah humbug.
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I would just remind her of that and ask her to please not bother me about it again. That really stinks though. Did you get things straightened out with the bank? Are you going to be able to get your money back?