Random Irritations

a suspicious package being found in the church at Tower Hill..... the same church that's about 50 yards away from where I am sat in the office
 
PTSD.. Go weeks and Months absolutely fine, then one night out of the blue waking up constantly because of it and it's all can think about, of to the gym and golf it is today then to reset the brain.
 
Oversleeping. Alarm went off and next thing I knew another 30 minutes had gone as I'd turned it off. I hate having to rush first thing and find it sets a mood for the day. Early night or two as the body clearly screaming for rest
 
Slab said:
Only if you can remember the answer to your secret password question about what she had for brekkie on the date your granny got her first pet with less than 4 legs!
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Not sure what bank your with but I use NatWest, nationwide, Barclays and Halifax . Each of these using a number to get in once set up and because of the phone I got it just uses my finger print so no remembering 👌
 
Slab said:
:eek: I still use a cheque book!
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have to admit I havent written a cheque for about 5 years.. everything is instant transfer to banks... got a building doing my loft soon and all the payments are via bank transfer.. so much easier

then if I get a cheque now dont even need to go the bank just take a photo of the check on one of the banking apps and its cleared in 3 days

they have developed it well for sure
 
pauljames87 said:
have to admit I havent written a cheque for about 5 years.. everything is instant transfer to banks... got a building doing my loft soon and all the payments are via bank transfer.. so much easier

then if I get a cheque now dont even need to go the bank just take a photo of the check on one of the banking apps and its cleared in 3 days

they have developed it well for sure
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Speaking of cheques, I had one to pay in last week. I went out of my way to get to a bank on my way home from work, their paying in machines weren't even working so I had to go to a member of staff, who then informed me you can pay cheques in with your phone app now! Had the phone app for years, never realised you could pay in cheques with it, what a wasted journey that was, haha. At least I learned something!
 
pauljames87 said:
have to admit I havent written a cheque for about 5 years.. everything is instant transfer to banks... got a building doing my loft soon and all the payments are via bank transfer.. so much easier

then if I get a cheque now dont even need to go the bank just take a photo of the check on one of the banking apps and its cleared in 3 days

they have developed it well for sure
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To be fair the guy in the bank (after I was directed to get a Q ticket to speak to someone like at the cheese counter in tesco's despite there not actually being any Q! Yup I stood in front of the 4 available staff to be told by one of them to go get a ticket from a little machine 8 steps away, however I wasn't actually trusted to operate the ticket dispensing machine myself and a member of staff had to do it for me!) and then returned to stand in the same place waiting for one of them to press a button to say they were free and tell me which of the lucky 4 staff was going to serve me)
Anyway after greetings were exchanged he did say I could just change the standing order amount using one of their self-serve screens and took me over to demonstrate that after simply swiping my bank card I'd be able to change it there, only trouble was the card reader wouldn't read the magnetic strip on my card so he said we'd have to do it 'the old fashioned way' (you mean the way we did it 6 months ago!) So now as long as I don't mind using a screen covered in traces of other peoples poo & wee, banking in the branch is actually much faster

The old fashioned way means using the same number off the same bank card but now i also need my passport and ID card with paperwork filled out to back it up (luckily I was prepared and had proof of ID, passport etc all of which the bank already have electronic copies of anyway after I said once before it was silly I had to keep bringing these things in every time)
And now of course they will also need to issue me a new hole in the wall card to replace the one the card reader wouldn't read despite the fact it works fine in the ATM machine in the branch. Unfortunately though unless I wait for one to be posted the new card issued in the branch wont indicate that I'm somehow a select account holder nor will it have my name embossed on it, fine I said, I don't care what colour the card is

So after about six signatures for changing the amount of standing order, issue of new card, destruction of old card, check of personal details confirmation etc I was given a tablet (which I thought was nice) but then found out it was to complete a survey of 'my experience' in the branch today with about 10 questions on it
After that the teller thanked me & then introduced himself as we were finishing up (like now is somehow the right time to tell me his name)

30 minutes of joy


As I said in my original irritation; Banks!
:cry:
 
Orikoru said:
Speaking of cheques, I had one to pay in last week. I went out of my way to get to a bank on my way home from work, their paying in machines weren't even working so I had to go to a member of staff, who then informed me you can pay cheques in with your phone app now! Had the phone app for years, never realised you could pay in cheques with it, what a wasted journey that was, haha. At least I learned something!
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Every days a school day! Lol great little invention , was delighted my builder deals in cash transfers I don’t fancy 45k worth of cash in the house even in drips and drabs! Plus the questions the bank gives you for asking for your own cash
 
Being asked for my driving license, and when having handed it over being told "no, your driving license...the plastic card with your picture on it"
The joy of telling someone that this pink piece of paper IS a driving license:)
 
pauljames87 said:
Every days a school day! Lol great little invention , was delighted my builder deals in cash transfers I don’t fancy 45k worth of cash in the house even in drips and drabs! Plus the questions the bank gives you for asking for your own cash
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Good luck with that, I did two transfers to a builder last week of 12 and 17k and even though I used the NatWest card reader thingy AND replied to texts they send me they froze my account twice!☹️
Both times pretty easily sorted after a 10 minute wait on the phone to the fraud dept to explain I wasn’t being coerced by a rogue trader!
 
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