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Comments on Thursday 22 July 2004:
This morning, the manager of my bank branch called. He wanted to discuss things and see if there's anything they could do for me. There are two things that should be noted about this occurrence. The first thing is that I have quite a lot of money with that bank, which is tentatively earmarked for buying a house in a year or two with minimal mortgage-rate compromise. The second thing is that this is the bank whose advertising slogan is along the lines of "we'll treat your ten dollars like other banks treat a thousand".

I'm pretty sure the bank manager hasn't phoned people who have accounts with under a thousand dollars in them. Still, I suppose they do treat the money the same, just not the customer, so the slogan isn't strictly false.

The bank also has posters on the wall saying something about "treating your money seriously", with a big picture of money with groucho nose-glasses drawn on it. Personally, I would rather my bank draw groucho nose-glasses on all my money, rather than treating it seriously. It'd be great to buy a house with cash, in the form of tens of thousands of ten dollar bills all of which have groucho nose-glasses drawn on them.

Anyway, Mr Bank Manager asked me to come by to talk to him and have a cup of coffee. Since I have quite a bit of money idly earning very little interest, and had some questions about house-buying in a year or two, I went along. Unexpectedly, there were some things worth doing, so I will be shuffling some money around soon. But, along with the rest of the post so far, that's not the point of the story.

The point of the story is this - when I got home I realised he hadn't given me any coffee. Bastard. The coffee was the only reason I went, really. [15:12]

Sara
hahahah

sigh__I guess that comment is stupid but I enjoyed your post. (I'm almost regretting putting any information on here)

:)

Nina
In my experience, the coffee at most banks is not worth the time it takes to drink it, but then again, I don't have a "big" bank here in town and even if I did, I don't have the "big" money that gets calls from bank managers! ; )

Nameless
Bank coffe is generally NesCafe... But if you have a bank that would draw groucho glasses on money then maybe it would be good.

Still sucks about not getting it, though.

C. Copperpot
Let's get to the point of it and just make anything with Groucho Marx in it currency!
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