[OT] What is this country coming to?

On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 18:05:25 GMT, AlanG mysteriously appeared thru the usenet mist to inform us thus...

They'd have to find it first!

That the truth is often the exact opposite is beyond them.

On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 18:03:17 GMT, AlanG mysteriously appeared thru the usenet mist to inform us thus...

They're ingrained on my mind. I might tell you about a trip to the BoE several years ago with my passport and the forms I had to complete just to change some £50 notes...

On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 19:41:37 +0000 (UTC), "DVH" mysteriously appeared thru the usenet mist to inform us thus...

I might add that I was holding the £20 notes in my hand and politely waving them as I spoke (you have heard of gesticulating I hope?). Have you always been an idiot dumpty? or do you make a special effort on usenet to entertain the rest of us?

On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 20:55:36 +0100, abelard

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Lardy, you have no determination and no iron will. You are a sponge.

I get the impression that gesticulating comes *very* naturally to Divveh Dumpty, if you know what I mean ;)

On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 22:50:50 -0000, "Chris X" mysteriously appeared thru the usenet mist to inform us thus...

He spent too much time in the trenches methinks ;-)

i'd call you a sponger, but my iron will disallows....

I really don't understand what your problem is here, you go to the bank and ask them to provide a service for you for free, and they ask for proof you are a customer, at what point are they being unreasonable?

Why should their cashiers time be taken up doing stuff for free for non-customers?

Why didn't you go to a shop then ?

Peter

On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 22:56:31 GMT, Stephen Glynn mysteriously appeared thru the usenet mist to inform us thus...

Well since this bank often has wadges of notes sitting on the staff side of the counter top with paper wraps, I'm not sure this is the reason ... and I couldn't queue up to get the cash OTC because the account concerned is one that this bank declines to offer OTC facilities on (only Internet and ATM).

Apart from that I can easily believe that the bank have given no thought whatsoever to the possibility that customers might actually prefer to decide themselves which notes their cash is withdrawn in.

Some ATMs in Spain I've used actually ask users for a preference, but then banking in Britain is way behind the rest of the world from a customer pov. Even in Brazil cheques are automatically cleared while you wait, none of this 3-8 days nonsense like in Britain where the money disappears into a black hole.

That's my experience too.

Exactly what it did. But I had no choice - see above.

In message , hummingbird writes

Hmm, I dont see why.

I dont understand why you think the bank should automatically be able to exchange cash for you?

Cash exchange costs a bank money and they charge businesses for doing it. I can think of no reason why you should expect the bank to exchange it for you for free.

What reason do you have for thinking that they would?

sometimes their checks include counting of notes by denomination.... without a transaction the teller has no excuse for numbers that don't match intake and issues...

regards...

he gets his dole free....why not his money changing.... he's a victim of delayed success....

In message , Stephen Glynn writes

Using the world's smallest ingraining machine.

Huh?

It wasn't as if you were asking them to change you £10 notes for £20's!

Even under a CCTV camera that most shops seem to have nowadays?

What bank was this? The same thing happened to me in the Nationwide last week, I only wanted to change a 10 note into two fivers and the teller went apre s*it. In the end I went up the Road to the Abbey and the gril there changed it straightaway.

Ah, so now we get the truth of the story, you didn't want to show your card to the cashier because you knew you were not entitled to use the counter service.

If you knew how the machine would behave why didn't you make several small withdrawls of 10/20 pounds? Saving yourself all this trouble.

Peter

whipped her t*ts out and breastfed her baby.