In light of the wonderful service that many of us are experiencing from recent recently aquired banks, it’s fun to have a reminder that sometimes the customer is an idiot, too.
The Right Way:
- Drive up to the cash machine
- Put down your car window
- Insert card into machine and enter PIN
- Enter amount of cash required and withdraw
- Retrieve card, cash and receipt
- Put window up
- Drive off
The Wrong Way (i.e., the way most people do it):
- Drive up to cash machine
- Reverse and back up the required distance to align car window with the machine
- Set parking brake, put the window down
- Find handbag, remove all contents on to passenger seat to locate card
- Tell person on cell phone you will call them back and hang up
- Attempt to insert card into machine
- Open car door to allow easier access to machine due to its excessive distance from the car
- Insert card
- Re-insert card the right way
- Dig through handbag to find diary with your PIN written on the inside back page
- Enter PIN
- Press cancel and re-enter correct PIN
- Enter amount of cash required
- Check makeup in rear view mirror
- Retrieve cash and receipt
- Empty handbag again to locate wallet and place cash inside
- Write deposit amount in check register and place receipt in back of checkbook
- Re-check makeup
- Drive forward 10 feet
- Reverse back to cash machine
- Retrieve card
- Re-empty handbag, locate cardholder, and place card into the slot provided
- Give appropriate one-fingered hand signal to irritated male driver waiting behind you
- Restart stalled engine and pull off
- Redial person on cell phone
- Drive for two miles
- Release Parking Brake
