Overdrawn

[Sandra Davies]

The under-manager's voice was that of the lisping and effete care assistant my youngest child adopts when he wants to make me aware of my age.

‘Mrs Davies, I’m sorry to say your bank account is overdrawn by thirty-six thousand pounds.’

I laughed.  

I knew this, and knew how and why, and explained it all in words of one syllable.

But the only way he would be mollified (and waive all interest charges) was if I agreed to have a ‘financial consultant’ come and tell me how to manage my (lack of ) money.

And so I spent an afternoon with this blonde and blue-eyed, blank-brained, must-think-he’s-god-when-he-looks-in-the-mirror sitting in my house and smiling crinkle-eyed and toothpaste at me while I pondered on the bank’s unofficial view of how and why women make financial decisions.

[Michael Brown]

Would love to have witnessed the actual look on your face as you sat listening to the b. & b.e., b-b., m-t-h-g-w-h-l-i-t-m. sitting in your house telling you how you should manage your money. This is rich, heh.

[Robert Crisman]

As Brecht once said, how can robbing a bank compare to owning a bank?

[Sandra Davies]

@ Teresa - This was getting of for a couple of decades ago, so no nude prints and anyway there was no chance of me letting this prat into my house ever again.

(For the record, I was acting as executor and merely re-distributing as fast as possible monies that weren't mine )

[Teresa]

Next time he visits, pull out all your nude art sketches and have them lying around the room the two of you sit in.  Have your lovely prints around, too, and your books, and our HoW books.  See what happens.

 

Well told but this goober makes me mad.  Is he friends with Steve Harvey?

[Mike Handley]

Is that all? Shit, with that track record, you could come manage the U.S. Treasury!

(You told this VERY well, by the way.)

[Stephen Torelli]

Funny, but not so much if you're broke.

[Gita]

I adore that the youngest child makes a skit out of the situation. And the final sentence is actually chilling given the banking crises all over the USA and Europe. The worst, I think, is the World Bank that lends money to women in parts of Africa or Shri Lanka to start their own small businesses.  Kick that smarmy banker out the door and leave a muddy boot print on his bum.