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Sprint had reported that I owed them a few hundred bucks for cellphone service. I had previously been a Sprint customer and knew that I owed nothing.

I called Sprint and the rep told me she could not discuss my account because it had been turned over to a collection agency.

I called the collection agency and was told that Sprint informed them that I owed the money from when I lived in Gun Barrel, Texas and that I had not responded to collection letters sent to me in Gun Barrel. I protested that I had never even been to Gun Barrel nor lived in any part of Texas.

The rep asked me if I could prove that I never lived in Texas.

I asked the logic-deprived rep if she could prove that she never lived on the moon.

I called Sprint again and was told to file a report with the Fraud Department. I explained that the improper report may merely have been the result of an error caused by merging two people’s accounts, not fraud, and asked if they have a Stupidity Department.

I was told that the fraud folks were in charge of stupidity. I suppressed both logic and laughter and filed a fraud report. A few months later the improper entry was removed from my credit report. A few years later it came back, provided by a different collection agency that had been unable to reach me in Gun Barrel, Texas.

Lesson: Credit is stupid.