Well, you'd
think wrong! At first I WAS happy to be out. Then I put T-Hoe in line at
the bank. There are only three drive-thru lanes. The right lane had the
red CLOSED light on. The middle lane had the green OPEN light on. The
left lane didn't seem to have either.
One car was ahead
of me. In park, turned off. That's okay. I do that myself. I got in
line behind it. A red car came up behind me to also wait. Well! I
suppose the tellers were inside watching their soap operas, waiting for a
commercial before serving customers. There was no activity in the car
ahead of me. She wasn't filling out anything, or sending anything
through the tube, or talking to the speaker. Just waiting.
I
responded to a text from The Pony. Yes, I DO know that Dairy Queen now
has biscuits with their chicken tender meal. I fiddled with the radio.
Checked T-Hoe's clock eleventy-billion times. After 10 minutes, I heard
the vacuum tube, and the canister came out. The lady took her stuff and
left. MY TURN!
All I needed was a withdrawal. I sent
in the slip. I don't know why it takes five minutes to count out a few
bills. It's not like they had to warm up the printing press.
Fifteen minutes at the bank drive-thru, with only one person ahead of me.
Good thing I didn't take my four Series EE savings bonds to redeem... I might still be sitting there.
I usually have a book with me, so I can read when I'm stopped at the railroad tracks, or stuck in line at the bank, or... you get the idea.
ReplyDeleteI think the tellers took so long because they have to sanitize each bill before putting it in their drawer. Watching soap operas and waiting for a commercial?
Slander!
Sioux,
ReplyDeleteOh, so YOU'RE the car in front of me that needs honking to get moving at the green light!
If they're sanitizing, they need a little UV cabinet, like we used for the science lab goggles. 60 seconds, and they're done! Of course, it didn't scrub any fingerprints off the goggles, but nothing could live on there to sicken you. It had longer settings, too. I guess to double-kill stuff...
Perhaps the woman ahead of you was cleaning out her account and it took that long to count all the cash. We don't have drive through banking here, only fast food places have drive throughs.
ReplyDeleteRiver,
ReplyDeleteMaybe. She must have been getting it in one-dollar bills! We have drive-thru everything! I now have to get my prescriptions refilled through the window of my pharmacy.