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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 20 2008 at 10:49
^ also known as a Hole In The Wall" in some parts of Britain.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 20 2008 at 10:54
It could have been one like this! Big smile
 
Cashpoint for giants
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 20 2008 at 10:55
See that short lady on the right? no trouble, perfect height! but see that fella on the left? He's going in for a dose of back ache!

Didn't Terry Wogan start the "Hole in the Wall" thing years ago? 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 20 2008 at 10:56
PMH............. liking the idea, having trouble visualising it!

(did you forget your picture posting lessons already? ) LOL
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 20 2008 at 10:57
I'm so so sorry, I couldn't resist! LOL
 

Pleased to inform customers that the YorkshireBank are now installing the Next Generation of new "Drive-thru" cash point machines: Customers will in future be able to withdraw cash without leaving their vehicles. To enable users to use this new facility the following procedures have been drawn up. Please read the procedure that applies to you (Male Or Female).

Please remember and follow these instructions when you use the machine for the first time.

MALE PROCEDURE
1 Drive up to the cash machine.
2 Wind down your car window.
3 Insert card into machine and enter PIN.
4 Enter amount of cash required and withdraw.
5 Retrieve card, cash and receipt
6 Wind up window
7 Drive off

FEMALE PROCEDURE
1 Drive up to cash machine
2 Reverse back the required amount to align car
3 Re-start the stalled engine
4 Wind down the window
5 Find handbag, remove all contents on to passenger seat to locate card.
6 Turn the radio down 7 Attempt to insert card into machine
8 Open car door to allow easier access to machine due to its excessive distance from the car
9 Insert card
10 Re-insert card the right way up
11 Re-enter handbag to find diary with your PIN written on the inside back page.
12 Enter PIN.
13 Press cancel and re-enter correct PIN.
14 Enter amount of cash required
15 Check make-up in rear view mirror
16 Retrieve cash and receipt
17 Empty handbag again to locate purse and place cash inside
18 Place receipt in back of cheque book
19 Re-check make-up again
20 Drive forwards 2 meters
21 Reverse back to cash machine
22 Retrieve card
23 Re-empty hand bag, locate card holder, and place card into the slot provided
24 Restart stalled engine and pull off
25 Drive for 2 to 3 miles
26 Release handbrake

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 20 2008 at 11:01
Clap  LOL  Great stuff, being brunette and a non-car driver I can laugh whole heartedly at that! 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 20 2008 at 11:08
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Edited by fandango - October 20 2008 at 11:09
Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 20 2008 at 11:12
Originally posted by fandango fandango wrote:

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PMSL!
 
Are you trying to say that because I'm not married I don't have fun J. LOL
 
I love women I just can't live with them! No offence Rach.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 20 2008 at 11:14

You've got me going now, this one is definitely for Rach.

 
I was at the cashpoint the other day when a short-sighted white van man asked me to check his balance.
 
So I pushed him over!!
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 20 2008 at 11:27
Originally posted by progmetalhead progmetalhead wrote:

You've got me going now, this one is definitely for Rach.

 
I was at the cashpoint the other day when a short-sighted white van man asked me to check his balance.
 
So I pushed him over!!
 
LOL


LOL LOL LOL


No offense mate, but  I'm sure I couldn't live with you either!  Besides.... I've got my hands full Wink

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 20 2008 at 11:42
LOLLOL


Rach - you just made my day by starting this topic...
Must say though, that after the 'jerk off' quote, I involuntary misread this one:

Originally posted by prog-chick prog-chick wrote:

See that short lady on the right? no trouble, perfect height! but see that fella on the left? He's going in for a dose of back ache!


I'll leave the details to the imaginative reader...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 20 2008 at 11:51
I'm obviously snowed under with the boss away, and have managed to lose up to ten whole work time minutes looking at this website
http://www.pimpthatsnack.com/project.php?projectID=33

pimp-that-snack!    Check out the giant jammy dodger! love it! inspired to cook!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 20 2008 at 12:37
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

^ also known as a Hole In The Wall" in some parts of Britain.
Hole-In-The-Wall


I remember when they were called Autobanks

...in fact, when I first started work Midland Bank in 1980, the ones we had then punched the "cashcard" (which you could only use 10 times) & only dispensed 10 £1.00 notes in a little plastic clip; if you didn't return the clip in the slot provided, we used to charge the customer an extra 30p

How things have changed, eh?

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 20 2008 at 12:43
Originally posted by prog-chick prog-chick wrote:

Sorry to change the subject (nice cow btw)

Is it just my age or do you guys get completely jerked off with cash machines?  (Or "ATM's as we're now required to call them Stern Smile  )  they are SO low in the wall, I know that this is to accomodate those people who have disabilities, but lets face it one more trip to the bank and I'm going to need a wheel chair! Ouch you've got to bend over double, whilst maintaining vigilence that you're not about to be mugged, whilst typing in a pin code that you have to type under your spare hand or newspaper or whatever incase someone has inserted a spy camera to the machine.... then you need to hunch up your shoulders and waggle your head because at certain times of day (if you're lucky) the sun shines on the screen leaving it utterly utterly unreadable unless you find a way of blocking the sun (whilst bending over double and hiding your pin)
Then you've got the whole thing about taking your money and trying to put it into your wallet safely before moving down the street (waving a bunch of tenners)  so whilst you do that you have half a dozen mutterers at your back making you responsible for their entire crappy day.

Fun eh?  OR is it really just me?   I am beginning to think I am getting good and mardy in my old age!

I do agree with you about the sun reflecting off the screen but they have to be low down to allow for the vertically-challenged members of society.
Anyway, RBS are so hard up now we're thinking of asking for some of our cash back. We've even had to flog Sir Fred's private jet.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 20 2008 at 12:52
Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Originally posted by prog-chick prog-chick wrote:

Sorry to change the subject (nice cow btw)

Is it just my age or do you guys get completely jerked off with cash machines?  (Or "ATM's as we're now required to call them Stern Smile  )  they are SO low in the wall, I know that this is to accomodate those people who have disabilities, but lets face it one more trip to the bank and I'm going to need a wheel chair! Ouch you've got to bend over double, whilst maintaining vigilence that you're not about to be mugged, whilst typing in a pin code that you have to type under your spare hand or newspaper or whatever incase someone has inserted a spy camera to the machine.... then you need to hunch up your shoulders and waggle your head because at certain times of day (if you're lucky) the sun shines on the screen leaving it utterly utterly unreadable unless you find a way of blocking the sun (whilst bending over double and hiding your pin)
Then you've got the whole thing about taking your money and trying to put it into your wallet safely before moving down the street (waving a bunch of tenners)  so whilst you do that you have half a dozen mutterers at your back making you responsible for their entire crappy day.

Fun eh?  OR is it really just me?   I am beginning to think I am getting good and mardy in my old age!

I do agree with you about the sun reflecting off the screen but they have to be low down to allow for the vertically-challenged members of society. And don't forget people in wheelchairs use them as well!
Anyway, RBS are so hard up now we're thinking of asking for some of our cash back. We've even had to flog Sir Fred's private jet.Cry
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 20 2008 at 12:53
Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

they have to be low down to allow for the vertically-challenged members of society.

How about having one for shorter people next to one for taller people? I'm 5'11" so not EXCEPTIONALLY tall, but some cashpoints are really toooooooo low to use without crippling myself, more consideration for tall people please!Wink


Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:


Anyway, RBS are so hard up now we're thinking of asking for some of our cash back. We've even had to flog Sir Fred's private jet.

Cry   <-------- NOT!


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 20 2008 at 13:33
Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

We've even had to flog Sir Fred's private jet.Cry
 
to keep staff morale up, was the 'banker of the week' allowed to fly it home at the weekend?...Big smile
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 20 2008 at 14:35
Originally posted by prog-chick prog-chick wrote:

Sorry to change the subject (nice cow btw)

Is it just my age or do you guys get completely jerked off with cash machines?  (Or "ATM's as we're now required to call them Stern Smile  )  they are SO low in the wall, I know that this is to accomodate those people who have disabilities, but lets face it one more trip to the bank and I'm going to need a wheel chair! Ouch you've got to bend over double, whilst maintaining vigilence that you're not about to be mugged, whilst typing in a pin code that you have to type under your spare hand or newspaper or whatever incase someone has inserted a spy camera to the machine.... then you need to hunch up your shoulders and waggle your head because at certain times of day (if you're lucky) the sun shines on the screen leaving it utterly utterly unreadable unless you find a way of blocking the sun (whilst bending over double and hiding your pin)
Then you've got the whole thing about taking your money and trying to put it into your wallet safely before moving down the street (waving a bunch of tenners)  so whilst you do that you have half a dozen mutterers at your back making you responsible for their entire crappy day.

Fun eh?  OR is it really just me?   I am beginning to think I am getting good and mardy in my old age!


Rach, for some people Automatic Telling Machines are too high.  I have a friend who has issues with them.  Only some of them they can reach at all.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 20 2008 at 14:58
I know, I know I am being unreasonable, but the one in Cricklade SERIOUSLY is damaging to use, I am using it whilst trying to stop a crash helmet rolling down the street, trying to prop up a mail sack, doing all the things I mentioned above and squatting an unladylike fashion to use the blasted thing. I am NOT being reasonable, I am being UNreasonable, I am thumping tables and being annoyed. It's part of old age I think. I want things MY way! LOL  

Sorry for my unthoughtful behaviour........... It's how I felt at the time though! Approve
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 20 2008 at 15:33
Originally posted by fandango fandango wrote:

Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

We've even had to flog Sir Fred's private jet.Cry
 
to keep staff morale up, was the 'banker of the week' allowed to fly it home at the weekend?...Big smile

Is that banker as in Cockney rhyming slang?

I think the phrase "keep staff morale up" is incorrect - it's not exactly up at the moment. One of the best things we had was a scheme to reward outstanding pieces of work with vouchers - and it's just been scrapped. I'm expecting a coin slot to appear on the coffee machine any day now.
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