» Banks

This happened only this week...spooky eh?
So I get home from work on Thursday to find a shiny letter from the Council. "ooh!" I think, "maybe theyre giving us free money due to the uselessness of their bin collection service".

Turns out, it was a letter saying "you know that Council Tax wot everyone's supposed to pay? Well, we tried and failed because you've got no money in your account."

I check online, and lo-and behold, the bank has decided to remove our overdraft without a hint of a warning.

So the next day, I plod off to work and I send the wife to Abbey to get angry with them. Wife gets to the front desk woman who looks at our account and tells her "madam, this account has never had an overdraft on it".

The wife looks bemused and starts shouting "are you calling me a fucking liar?" Much to the amusement of the other customers in the branch at the time.

In an effort to appease my wife, the stupid bank woman says "well the computer says here that you are entitled to a large overdraft, but you have to come into the branch to ask for it, then we can activate it for you."

Mrs tico just shouts one line: "I'm standing in the fucking branch now, so why don't you give me my overdraft you bint?"

At this point, the bank retard gets flustered and has to go away (presumably to cry). A second woman takes over who apologieses for Abbey accidentally removing our overdraft without warning. She re-applied it there and then and removed a few charges that had appeared as a result.
(Sat 18th Jul 2009, 8:58, More)