I fucking HATE Bank Holidays. I work in a profession which doesn’t get the day off and is actually extra busy on Bank Holidays, but I like my job so that doesn’t bother me. Besides, I’m in no fit state to work at the moment (see below) What does fucking bother me is that not only am I strapped for cash until Tuesday because some cuntish bastard son of a stable whore who I really honestly hope and pray is rotting on a spit in the depths of hell decided that every single bank in the entire fucking nation should arbitrarily shut down on certain mondays throughout the year. I have no money in my current account but enough in my savings account to tide me over when I need money (WHICH IS NOW!!!) but to get it I have to make a manual withdrawal. On Tuesday!
I am also coming down with (I think) a case of Tonsillitis. This hurts. I am in pain with this. My fucking GP, in fact every fucking GP in the country, is unavailable until Tuesday. This means that I have to sit here and suffer an extra 24 hours before getting some decent painkillers. I have already taken as much paracetamol as I am allowed today and will run out first thing tomorrow morning when I take my last 2 pills. I will not be able to get any more because it’s FUCKING BANK HOLIDAY and every cunt and his wife has decided to take the fucking day off!
**THE WORLD DOES NOT FUCKING STOP FOR BANK HOLIDAY’S!! **
I have two accounts, one is a current account for which I do have an ATM card, the other is a savings account which doesn’t come with an ATM card. To the best of my knowledge it isn’t possible to get one with the account. Now, recently I’ve had relatives come down and I’ve had to spend more than I would have liked in order to entertain them. My current account is empty and so I can’t use the ATM card that I have with it. Once this pointless, idiotic holiday is over I’m going to open up a different kind of savings account (an ISA account to be exact) and that does come with an ATM card.
What friedo said, or get your savings and current accounts linked so you can transfer funds between them by phone or online. If you can’t do these with your accounts, open up ones that you can.
Furthermore, unless this is a new bank holiday that was only announced yesterday, surely you had plenty of time last week to get out any money you might need to carry you over til Tuesday?
I’m not saying it’s anyone’s fault but mine that I ran out of money in my current account but that doesn’t make the mandatory closure of every single bank in the country a severe inconvenience. I’m sure I’m not the only one in this position. Frankly I’m far more pissed off that I can’t see my GP until tuesday.
That seems perfectly bizarre to me. I used to have a savings account, but it was accessible to the same bank card as my chequing account; I could even buy things with my bank card using my savings account. I guess when they do things differently, they REALLY do it differently?
I lived in Japan for two years. Banks aren’t open on national holidays. Not even the ATMs! It was always a pain remembering to get enough money to last those time periods.
