Friday, June 27, 2008

Poverty.

3:47pm, June 27th.

Washington Mutual bank; 5th Ave and 14th St. Brooklyn, New York.

I place a grocery bag worth of collected loose change on the counter.

Me: “I have cash to deposit too, but I’m sure you have to count this first.”

Cashier person: “We don’t count this.”

Me: “What? You’re a bank.”

Cashier person: “You have to put it in rolls.”

Me: “What!? That’s ludicrous.”

Cashier person: “We don’t count it.”

Me: “Where the hell am I supposed to get rolls?”

Cashier person: “You buy them here.”

Me: “So I am supposed to pay to give you money?” (pause) “You are a bank, right?”

Cashier person: (growing sick of my attitude) “Yes, we are a bank.”

Me: “But I am supposed to BUY rolls from you, and put fifteen pounds of loose change into them? You don’t just have a machine that counts it? That seems odd.”

Cashier person: “We do, but it’s not for customers.”

Me: “That’s unbelievable. That is the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard. I’ll be writing a letter about this.”

*awkward moment

Cashier person: (to line of people watching this) “Next.”



Being poor is awful.

Comments

joselyn balkcom @ Tuesday, July 29, 2008:

i know all about having to put coins in rolls its very boring your just sitting there putting coins in rolls and it makes you just want to roll over and die specially if you have a lot of coins

Brand @ Tuesday, July 29, 2008:

Jos, take it to any Commerce Bank, they have a counting machine and it's free! You dump it in, it spits out a receipt, and then you take it to the cashier and they HAND YOU THE CASH. All shame removed. Plus you can swipe pens and red lollipops, so much the better. I fucking HATE WaMu. They are turds.

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