Banking on My Bank

Went to the bank, and banks aren't really on the top of my list of favourite places to visit, yesterday to renew the roadtax for my car. I know I don't have to go there physically to do it, but I went because:

1. The stupid branch closed down, and I only found out because my cheques were taking so long to clear when I mailed them to the address, and the receipts kept coming from a differnt branch. So clever me put two and two together and figured out that they might have moved. Only to be confirmed when I called them. They never informed me, can you believe it? I also wanted to find out if my car grant was moved to the new branch.

2. I kept getting this stupid reminder letter that said that I am one month behind in my payment and my record showed otherwise. So I needed to confirm that as well.

So the conclusion is: the bank is stupid. Of course it is stupid, that's why it had changed name three times since I had taken my car loan with them. Phiiish.

Anyways, back to the stupid visit. I had to take the day off just to do that because the new branch is located in some god-forsaken place that I had never been. And of course it turned out that it really was in a god-forsaken place, with no parking. Ended up parking my car in the wet market car park a kilometre away (and paying three ringgits for it).

And the bank had no air-conditioning on because there was a small fire three days before and they still could not fix the ac. (To which I asked the girl, would my records be burned too if the fire was a little bigger, and she replied 'you wish' :P ). So there I was sweating and almost had a headache when I was finally waited upon (geez, what a nice term I used). And the guy was very nice, and he actually filled up all the forms for me, and the only thing I had to do was just sign the cheque (I was making payments too). And... he asked me out to lunch!!!!

I attribute that to the lack of air-conditioning. :)

But the bank is still stupid anyway.