Hey, if a bill is due, you gotta pay it, whether it’s a thousand bucks or five cents.

But still, it can be pretty annoying when you get a bill demanding that you pay an insignificant amount of money…and this person handled it the right way!

Check out what happened.

Paying the final balance for my student loan, or so I thought.

“This was back in the late 1990s before payments could be made via websites, so all payments had to be made by check and mailed into the loan company.

I know, the dark ages!

It was a big event!

I had finally progressed to the point where I was able to make my final payment on my college student loans.

The way this was supposed to work is that I was supposed to call the loan company to receive my final payoff amount and then send that amount in via check.

They said that I would receive my final papers within 30 days showing the loan had been paid in full.

I wrote out the check for the exact amount that they gave me and promptly mailed it in.

After 30 days I was quite pleased to see an envelope in the mail from the loan company.

What’s this?

However, instead of the paid in full notice, there was a bill for an additional amount owed.

Apparently, I still had a balance of 5 cents!

Here is where the malicious compliance comes in.

Instead of calling them up and begging them to forgive the remaining balance, I decided to send in the payment coupon with a dime (yes, double what was owed) taped to it.

I wrote a note stating that I hope this covers the remaining balance.

Did I mention that payment coupon came with a prepaid return envelope?

They paid the postage for this!

I received the final papers about two weeks later.”

Let’s see how Reddit users reacted.

This reader shared a story.

Another individual spoke up.

This Reddit user spoke up.

Another individual chimed in.

Well, that’s one way to do it…

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