MY PREVIOUS BANK WILL REMAIN MY PREVIOUS BANK

 

          Banks or at least the bank I used to use are very annoying. I belong to a credit union which doesn’t have actual walk-in locations in very many places. Lots of ATMs, but not places where I could give them money and ask for lower denominations in return.

          This morning I went to my credit union’s ATM and withdrew cash. I stopped at the bank I used to use (Another whole story about how that bank screwed up my accounts and had charges on my card for things on the other side of the country; and not just once but multiple times.) and went inside. I handed over two $20 bills and asked if I could have twenty relatively new $1 bills.

          “Do you have an account with us?”

          “No, I don’t.”

          “Well, I cannot help you.”

          “You can’t even give me change for these?”

          “No, policy. You have to have an account.”

          Seriously, I was stunned and really pissed off about this. I’m handing over United States currency, not Euros or some other form of cash and that bank cannot even make change for me? Another good reason for never ever resuming any sort of banking with this particular bank.

          Fortunately, I have a card for another bank and there’s one located right in my neighborhood. I’ll just go there and get my $20 bills converted into lessor amounts of US cash. Looks like more and more organizations who used to provide “service” to any and all are not doing so any longer. Ah well.