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\"Brain<\/a>

Brain Drain Perilous Payments by Kris P. Kreme<\/p><\/div>\n

When Bryce sees the grin on his pretty wife’s face as she claims to be going Christmas shopping, he knows she’s up to something. But Allison assures him she has figured out a way to get all their shopping done without blowing the budget.<\/p>\n

She has figured it all out… a way to game the system of Brain Drain Credit, the twisted method of payment no responsible shopper ever uses. Most are more impulsive and pay with percentages of their inhibitions or self-control, but there are endless options and the ability to spread payments so thin among those options, no one will notice.<\/p>\n

But despite meticulous planning, could one little mistake truly cost Allison everything through perilous payments?<\/p>\n

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Bryce’s pretty young wife Allison is going Christmas shopping, but even he can see she is up to something with that little grin she gets when feeling clever. And this year, maybe she has figured something out… because Allison is planning on gaming the system of Brain Drain financing to get everything on their holiday shopping list!<\/p>\n

There’s just no such thing as responsible finances during the 12 Days of Krismas, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be fun to sit by and watch those payment plans turn perilous for a sweet smart woman like Allison.<\/p>\n

As much as Bryce likes how his wife is dressed to go shopping, and as much as he is teasing her about it, joking that she better not be hooking on the side to afford Christmas gifts… Allison is refusing to tell her husband the scheme she has spent so much time figuring out, a way to actually get all the little gifts they wanted to get before seeing the family at Christmas.<\/p>\n

The truth is that Allison and Bryce have been underwater on finances since they got married, but Allison figured a way around all that, around traditional forms of payment… and it all has to do with Brain Drain Credit.<\/p>\n

It’s the form of pseudo-science payment almost no one ever uses for the main reason that it usually costs someone everything they are. It’s the form of payment where percentages of the very qualities and characteristics of a buyer are exchanged in order to make purchases. And most never even try to look at all the options like Allison has.<\/p>\n

She has figured out a way of spreading the payments over so many different little payment options that no one will ever even notice she used Brain Drain Credit.<\/p>\n

And it all will begin with a whopping 99% payment, something other buyers likely never even thought of trying. Allison has always been highly intelligent and clever at problem-solving. So if she goes to the mall during a workday when few others are around, she’ll avoid too many people seeing what she tries. And by paying with 99% of her physical strength, she can get all her purchases, drag the insanely heavy-feeling bags out to her car, and get home… where Allison intends to adjust her payments over a dozen or more harmless little methods.<\/p>\n

In her plan, she might take 4% of her inhibitions, something Bryce certainly wouldn’t mind, then add 3% more fertility, something her parents wouldn’t mind when it came to grandchildren someday soon, add in paying with 10% of her moodiness, 5% of her pain threshold, 2% of her imagination, 1% of her creativity, and no one would ever suspect how she paid for all the Christmas gifts.<\/p>\n

It’s the perfect plan, Allison assures herself, confident right up to the point when she is weakly dragging her insanely heavy-feeling bags out into the parking deck towards her car. And that is when Allison realizes she can’t lift the hatch to load her gifts. <\/p>\n

Realizing she needs to shift her payments before she planned, Allison decides to just quickly and temporarily shift all 99% of her payment choice to another method… deciding quickly and taking her payments from 99% of her physical strength to 99% of her ability to refuse suggestions. It’s a good choice since she is all alone in the parking deck anyway, and instantly she is able to lift her shopping bags and load the gifts. <\/p>\n

Unfortunately at that moment a hispanic man drives by and calls out to her, making lewd and crude suggestions out his window. He never could have expected that Allison, with only a 1% chance of refusing all suggestions will comply with those depraved little intentions right there at her car.<\/p>\n

Once the man does his thing and moves on, Allison is very aware she has to shift her payments, and likely try and undo some of what he may have done to her. It’s bad enough she’s cheated on Bryce, but Allison still feels confident she can manage the payment options.<\/p>\n

Quickly shifting all 99% to yet another of what she hopes is a harmless temporary payment form… will Allison finally get home to where she can fix all of this? Or will she end up giving her teasing playful husband Bryce what he always wanted for Christmas… even if she never meant to shop for it?<\/p>\n

Everyone knows the finance companies always screw you in the end… though Allison might discover that with Brain Drain financing options, you just get screwed way more than you ever thought possible.<\/p>\n

 
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When Bryce sees the grin on his pretty wife’s face as she claims to be going Christmas shopping, he knows she’s up to something. But Allison assures him she has figured out a way to get all their shopping done without blowing the budget. She has figured it all out… a way to game the … <\/p>\n

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