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My experience in the bank today.
I'm sure many of you CRH's have heard this one before,but when it happens to you, it is by far a more terrible,terrible feeling.Here goes-
First a little history-This is my regular branch that I do my weekly banking at.I have ordered boxes here before.I have also turned them in here before.The particular teller in question is a no personality,no looks,no life,homely looking slouch that never cracks a smile for fear it may break her ugly face.She has given me problems in the past. On with the story-
For a brief moment I thought,wow this is great!!
I was at the bank today depositing some cash and I glanced in the coin tray and saw ole Ben Franklin staring back at me with a gleam in his eye! Yeah that's right, there was about a half roll of halves in the coin tray and the top one was a 1953 Franklin.I played it cool and nonchalant.Made my deposit and asked for a balance just for GP's sake.Then as I prepared to turn and leave I said, Can I buy those halves you have there? Well this bit%# looks at me and says,"Oh these are already sold," as she took them out of the tray and showed them to me,They were all Franklins!!!,then she put them back in the tray! I was flabbergasted to say the least! I stared back at her in utter amazement and i'm sure the expression on my face was that of a man possessed,I said to her, What do you mean they're already sold? She replied back with a big sh#*eating grin on her repulsive looking face,"Yes,I bought those,I just haven't removed them yet." By now my blood pressure had risen to the point of which I was ready to pop a main vain.So instead of causing a great big scene, which if you know me,I very easily could have and should have done, I chose to swallow my pride and "act" with a bit of human decency.
By now our conversation had got the attention of the other 2 tellers and a couple of customers standing in line. I took a deep breath and exhaled very slowly as to bring my blood pressure down a notch or two. I calmy stated, If they are already sold then they shoudn't be sitting in plain view of the customers,are you trying to tease me or something,is this how you get your kicks? Since you obviously want those few for yourself get them out of the tray,that tray is for customers,it's not your personal coin collection. Now, while we're at it,I want to go ahead and order two boxes of halves, since I can't have those. Her eyes kinda popped out of her ghostly sockets momentarily and she said,"two boxes?" Yes I replied, two $500 boxes,that equals one thousand,is there a problem with that? She answered with, "No,uh no no problem,they,they won't be here until next Thursday though because we order coin on Mondays." I said, yes I know that,thats the story of my life, a day late and a dollar short.Then I turned and proceeded to exit the bank,as I did I offered her some advice (my fuse was now lit),I said to her,"For future reference, if you have coin in the box in front of me and I ask to buy it from you and you don't sell it to me,I will be demanding the Bank Manager and I will make one hell of a scene until you do.What you did here today is highly unethical and i'm sure it is against Bank procedures and I advise you not to try it again,have a nice day ma'am.
So here I am, 8 long days to wait for my 2 boxes to show up, as Ben was staring at me in the bank today! I'll post my results when I get them next week!
I'm sure many of you CRH's have heard this one before,but when it happens to you, it is by far a more terrible,terrible feeling.Here goes-
First a little history-This is my regular branch that I do my weekly banking at.I have ordered boxes here before.I have also turned them in here before.The particular teller in question is a no personality,no looks,no life,homely looking slouch that never cracks a smile for fear it may break her ugly face.She has given me problems in the past. On with the story-
For a brief moment I thought,wow this is great!!
I was at the bank today depositing some cash and I glanced in the coin tray and saw ole Ben Franklin staring back at me with a gleam in his eye! Yeah that's right, there was about a half roll of halves in the coin tray and the top one was a 1953 Franklin.I played it cool and nonchalant.Made my deposit and asked for a balance just for GP's sake.Then as I prepared to turn and leave I said, Can I buy those halves you have there? Well this bit%# looks at me and says,"Oh these are already sold," as she took them out of the tray and showed them to me,They were all Franklins!!!,then she put them back in the tray! I was flabbergasted to say the least! I stared back at her in utter amazement and i'm sure the expression on my face was that of a man possessed,I said to her, What do you mean they're already sold? She replied back with a big sh#*eating grin on her repulsive looking face,"Yes,I bought those,I just haven't removed them yet." By now my blood pressure had risen to the point of which I was ready to pop a main vain.So instead of causing a great big scene, which if you know me,I very easily could have and should have done, I chose to swallow my pride and "act" with a bit of human decency.
By now our conversation had got the attention of the other 2 tellers and a couple of customers standing in line. I took a deep breath and exhaled very slowly as to bring my blood pressure down a notch or two. I calmy stated, If they are already sold then they shoudn't be sitting in plain view of the customers,are you trying to tease me or something,is this how you get your kicks? Since you obviously want those few for yourself get them out of the tray,that tray is for customers,it's not your personal coin collection. Now, while we're at it,I want to go ahead and order two boxes of halves, since I can't have those. Her eyes kinda popped out of her ghostly sockets momentarily and she said,"two boxes?" Yes I replied, two $500 boxes,that equals one thousand,is there a problem with that? She answered with, "No,uh no no problem,they,they won't be here until next Thursday though because we order coin on Mondays." I said, yes I know that,thats the story of my life, a day late and a dollar short.Then I turned and proceeded to exit the bank,as I did I offered her some advice (my fuse was now lit),I said to her,"For future reference, if you have coin in the box in front of me and I ask to buy it from you and you don't sell it to me,I will be demanding the Bank Manager and I will make one hell of a scene until you do.What you did here today is highly unethical and i'm sure it is against Bank procedures and I advise you not to try it again,have a nice day ma'am.
So here I am, 8 long days to wait for my 2 boxes to show up, as Ben was staring at me in the bank today! I'll post my results when I get them next week!
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.I think I'm gonna shoot an email to the district manager in Miami,see what they think of her actions.I've never been charged for boxes of coin.I've never heard of that.I can understand if you don't have an account there but if you do then somethings wrong with that picture. 
