BanksYour Ginger Fuhrer froths, "I hate my bank. Not because of debt or anything but because I hate being sold to - possibly pathologically so - and everytime I speak to them they try and sell me services. Gold cards, isas, insurance, you know the crap. It drives me insane. I ALREADY BANK WITH YOU. STOP IT. YOU MAKE ME FRIGHTED TO DO MY NORMAL BANKING. I'm angry even thinking about them."
So, tell us your banking stories of woe.
No doubt at least one of you has shagged in the vault, shat on a counter or thrown up in a cash machine. Or something
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chthonic, Thu 16 Jul 2009, 13:15)
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RepostMost of this seems to be about banks screwing you over....so here is the reverse
*time and space fade back to the old question about freebies*
It's not as much the freeness but the lucky circumstances surrounding this that make me still want to cry about 2 weeks later!
T'was a Tuesday. A day of rest for myself from the labours of uni (but when only in 2x2 hours a week most days are) but a group presentation was due for the next day. Being the good guy I am I decide to take the commute into Glasgow anyway and meet up with the rest.
The previous Friday news reached me of Lee Evans playing at the Glasgow SECC. So I decide it would be best to go get tickets as well before meeting the group.
As I walk out the SECC, £120 cash spent I get a text about a cash machine in Glasgow Central station paying out double.
Runs does I to the train, gets it in and am greeted by a big queue. Nonetheless I stand in it (along with 3 other mates who all got the same text) and finally reach the front.
I had taken out £120 on the tickets already so was limited to £180 so plumped for that and got this.
£360 lovely pounds.
I put it back into my account after dealing with the presentation and now - about 3 weeks later - nothing has happened and I'm actually beginning to believe I may get to keep it!
So I got a free £180 as I was in Glasgow a day I normally wouldn't, and being about a 10 minutes train ride from the station at the right time. Luck? Or God loving me?
....and I got Lee Evans tickets :-D
*****
Update - That was November 2007...they have never asked for it back and the same goes for all mates!
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Muahahaha!I'd love this to happen to me one day.
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Major Turd for tonight only, Wed 22 Jul 2009, 23:08,
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That's cos it's not real monies!Look at it, that's not the Queen!
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Rookie You'll have to speak up, I'm wearing a towel, Thu 23 Jul 2009, 9:11,
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I see...Funny money, and a bitten thumbnail.
Nervy wait at the ATM, hoping it hadn't run out of cash eh?
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snee held his breath since, Thu 23 Jul 2009, 9:19,
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Could I suggest spending a little of that cashon a manicure? Or at least a nailfile?
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