From: abelard 
Newsgroups: uk.politics.misc uk.finance
Subject: Re: [OT] What is this country coming to?
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 17:27:38 +0100

On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 16:24:58 +0000, hummingbird
  

  typed:

>Bureaucratic apparatchiks:
>
>I went to a local ATM this pm (inside my bank) and withdrew some cash.
>The ATM decides how to dispense the notes and gave me £20 notes
>whereas I wanted £10 notes. No problem I thought; I'll just ask the
>bimbo at the counter to change them for me.
>After queuing for 5 mins, here's what happened:
>
>Me: "hello, could you change these £20 notes into £10 notes please, 
>I've just withdrawn them from your ATM."
>
>She said: "do you have an account with us?"
>
>Me: "yes, I've just withdrawn them from your ATM over there."
>
>She said: "I have to put the transaction through an account."
>
>Me: "surely not. I don't understand. All I want you to do is change
>several £20 notes for £10 notes, the sort of thing any shop would 
>do on the spot".
>
>She said: "I'm sorry but I've only been here for a few months and 
>I've been told....blah blah blah"
>
>Me: "well there wouldn't be a problem if your ATM asked me how 
>I'd like the cash dispensed."
>
>And so it went on...until she got authorisation from a more senior
>counter clerk to change the £20 notes without an account card.
>
>Could this have been done in the first place without all the fuss?

you're probably a launderer if you had more than £20

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