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Teller Is A Magician?

September 22nd, 2006 at 08:24 pm

Teller Is A Magician?



This is no Penn and Teller story, but in clearing up the straggling entries on the September budget I saw that I'd forgotten to write myself a check out of Household/PaperGoods category for 10.00 and that I'd short-changed my allowance by 2.50. So, I wrote a check from our joint account for $12.50 and ran it to my bank while I was out.

Got the deposit slip back and the girl had made the deposit for $1250.00!

Darn my ornery hide, but I asked her if she meant to do that?

I wonder how long it would have taken them to figure it out? I told her, "You would have been working into the wee hours trying to figure out why your till was off" and she said, "No, we only have to account for our cash drawer!"

Ratfinkus - Could of gone shopping had my 'raising' not kicked in!!

You've got to watch them because they are only human and many times the tellers at my bank seem to make errors and more often than not in my case it has been to the bank's favor and not mine!

Another case in point...On the FIL's Estate Checking Account we have deposited a small amount to open it and will deposit proceeds of house sale into it for dispersment to siblings. We just put $100 in it to start several months back and then suddenly last month they decided to take a $15.00 fee from it! OUCH!

The Hubster called and supposedly got it corrected. Then yesterday we got another statement and they had fixed the one fee for last month and charged us another $15.00 for this month.

HELLO!!

The Hubster got back on the horn and asked if we needed to remove our checking and very large MM account to another bank...oh no Mr. HubsterFrugalis, we will get this straightened out for you right away. Un-huh yeah, that's what you said last month!!

Moral of the story? Keep watching your deposit slips and bank statements folks!!



Posted in Inflow, Outflow, The Hubster | 2 Comments »

2 Responses to “Teller Is A Magician?”

  1. JanH Says:
    September 22nd, 2006 at 10:21 pm 1158960094
    1158960094

    Yep. Our bank kept charging a fee for the savings account although it wasn't supposed to. Turns out a computer programming error did that. But I had to take in statements to get my money back. Once, someone's money got put in my account and wow I loved the balance. But like you, I checked on it and gave it back. We will get a gift somehow, somewhere for our honesty. It will come back to us....

  2. Bookie Says:
    September 22nd, 2006 at 11:31 pm 1158964312
    1158964312

    I picked up the office weekend change order from our bank a year or so back. When I got around to logging it, the bag contained an extra $250 in cash that was not indicated on the paperwork.

    The bank had closed, so I left it in the office safe until Monday. When I took it in, the cashier informed me that the branch had balanced at the end of Friday.

    Makes me happy I have my personal accounts elsewhere. Smile

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