29 Jan 2015
During the summer, we had to find a bank account in a hurry for Dave's earnings, which turned out to be so long unused it was effectively dormant. Except that it was able to accept money. This was our 'rainy day' saving scheme for getting through the lean month of January with some money for building supplies
So we went to Lefkas and queued at the bank and got to the counter and they wouldn't let us withdraw any money. So we queued for the girl at the desk who gave us a list of documents we'd need to bring to re-open the account.
A week later, having eked out our pennies a little longer than we'd've liked, we went back, queued again, handed in documents, waiting patiently while other people distracted our clerk with 'quick' queries, and after two hours Dave signed everything and they said come back in a few days and the account will be reactivated.
A few days later, we set aside another day for going to Lefkas and queued for the counter and eventually reached the cashier and he said, sorry there's a problem, so we went to see the other clerk who looked for Dave's paperwork and couldn't find it and claimed not to remember dealing with it, and said, the paperwork is all on the system, but you didn't apply to activate the account. So it was our fault. And if we come back in a few days the account will have been reactivated.
I was furious. Dave steered me out into the street where I stomped about a lot.
Then we calculated we could just about spend every last penny we each had on various debit cards and just afford the woodyard order we needed to get the bathroom walls, floor and ceiling materials this side of the weekend. So we did that, and amazingly they had a Nidri delivery already on the truck, so they'd do ours with it and we'd have the wood in an hour or so. So that was good.
And February's income was in the bank the following day, so we made it through January by the skin of our teeth!
During the summer, we had to find a bank account in a hurry for Dave's earnings, which turned out to be so long unused it was effectively dormant. Except that it was able to accept money. This was our 'rainy day' saving scheme for getting through the lean month of January with some money for building supplies
So we went to Lefkas and queued at the bank and got to the counter and they wouldn't let us withdraw any money. So we queued for the girl at the desk who gave us a list of documents we'd need to bring to re-open the account.
A week later, having eked out our pennies a little longer than we'd've liked, we went back, queued again, handed in documents, waiting patiently while other people distracted our clerk with 'quick' queries, and after two hours Dave signed everything and they said come back in a few days and the account will be reactivated.
A few days later, we set aside another day for going to Lefkas and queued for the counter and eventually reached the cashier and he said, sorry there's a problem, so we went to see the other clerk who looked for Dave's paperwork and couldn't find it and claimed not to remember dealing with it, and said, the paperwork is all on the system, but you didn't apply to activate the account. So it was our fault. And if we come back in a few days the account will have been reactivated.
I was furious. Dave steered me out into the street where I stomped about a lot.
Then we calculated we could just about spend every last penny we each had on various debit cards and just afford the woodyard order we needed to get the bathroom walls, floor and ceiling materials this side of the weekend. So we did that, and amazingly they had a Nidri delivery already on the truck, so they'd do ours with it and we'd have the wood in an hour or so. So that was good.
And February's income was in the bank the following day, so we made it through January by the skin of our teeth!
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