Saturday I ran a few errands, one of which was moving a sum of money from one bank to another bank. You see, my very first bank account was a savings account set up at a Nations Bank located in a grocery store. My Nations Bank account then became Bank of America account when they took over, and such has been the case for as long as I have used that account. I go to the grocery store with the bank inside, fill out my form for deposit or withdrawel, and that is that.
However, on Saturday I arrived in the parking lot and looked at the left hand side of the building and found that the Bank of America logo had vanished, replaced by that of 1st Convenience Bank. "Well that isn't very convenient at all," I muttered. I must emphasize that this was actually audible, such was my shock and dismay. I had no idea when the bank might have been replaced, I haven't been there in a few months so it could have been a while ago. My brain's memory of this area is a bit dated as-is, I had even forgotten the grocery store was no longer an Albertsons, but now a Kroger. I lose track of all the things that happen in my hometown, they are always building new things and changing stuff around.
Actually, I'm not even sure how some of htese places survive. We have so many banks, fast food places, dry cleaners, and car washes - with more springing up all the time - yet you never see any of these things go under. I'm in awe that people have enough money to keep all these things afloat, particularly the banks, you'd think at some point in time people would say "Ok a new bank just opened up, but I really don't need to have an account in a 19th bank"
The rest of my errands were not so exciting, really the whole purpose of my writing the blog was to record the bit about 1st Convenience Bank, I rather enjoy the thought that my first thought upon seeing that was "Well that's not very convenient at all." My journey led me to a new brick & mortor Bank of America where I didn't have to fill out any paperwork, they did what I told htem and gave me a receipt. I was impressed thatthey finally modernized the system a bit. I may go back there next week just to experience the thrill of hassle-less banking once more. Maybe I'll withdraw a quarter or something. Perhaps a dime. I'd like to see the teller's face should I choose to withdraw a penny. They probably have some sort of minimum withdrawel limit I'd imagine. I think when I was a teller you had to at least do a transaction of $5.00, but who knows.
I also got my oil changed and a haircut - my first in two months - both went by without event. Though my haircut going by without event is actually an event in itself. I really enjoyed it because there was no attempt at small-talk, I don't care much for the haircut small-talk at all. I just can't strike up conversations with strangers and would prefer not to retest the theory every time I get my hair cut. But this time went fantastic, no small-talk, and she didn't even comment on how thick my hair was. It is pretty rare that a hairdresser not remark about the thickness of my hair, I was impressed. I need to find more hairdressers of the sort because I feel kind of bad when they obviously want to chat and I'm not a horribly chatty person, particularly if I don't know you and see you on a 2 month basis.
The rest of the weekend went swimmingly, 13 hours of 24 season 2 were watched over the 3 days, I quite enjoyed it.
Posted by Michael at February 13, 2005 11:50 PM