Brains! (if available)
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amalthyaMonday 2:38 pm
GAH!! All I needed today was to work, maybe go back to the office today.
It had been such a good, calm day too. But Jackson comes by to pick up Brad & Delphine's DVDs, and I'm like "Well, I might as well take a ride over"...
So, I head to the office earlier than expected with the hope that I can stop by Western Union and pick up the money my mom sent me. Since there are NO ATMs here or any other way to receive money.
Anyway, I fill out the form, manage to remember her OH address, pulling it from my bum, and manage to even remember the phone number. I'm telling you, it was tough.
There's this section of the form that says "Money Transfer Control Number (if available)"
"Good," I think to myself. I'm glad that's optional. I prepare to answer the secret question, also written on the form, and pass it back with my passport.
"Where is this number?" he says in French, pointing angrily at the paper.
"I don't have it" say I.
"I cannot search for the transaction without this number!!"
I wrack my brain, and end up hiding in the corner of the bank and checking the email forward my mother sent me to see if it had a number. Nope. And now everyone in the bank knows I have a laptop.
I'm asking his supervisor why, if it's mandatory, does it say "If available" and when are they going to ask me the secret question?
Nope, no money, no luck. Literally, this guy tried to convince me that the international Western Union database only had one search parameter -- for an OPTIONAL transfer number.
Dammit. I wish people who worked in banks were at least as smart, if not smarter than, toe cheese.
GAH!! All I needed today was to work, maybe go back to the office today.
It had been such a good, calm day too. But Jackson comes by to pick up Brad & Delphine's DVDs, and I'm like "Well, I might as well take a ride over"...
So, I head to the office earlier than expected with the hope that I can stop by Western Union and pick up the money my mom sent me. Since there are NO ATMs here or any other way to receive money.
Anyway, I fill out the form, manage to remember her OH address, pulling it from my bum, and manage to even remember the phone number. I'm telling you, it was tough.
There's this section of the form that says "Money Transfer Control Number (if available)"
"Good," I think to myself. I'm glad that's optional. I prepare to answer the secret question, also written on the form, and pass it back with my passport.
"Where is this number?" he says in French, pointing angrily at the paper.
"I don't have it" say I.
"I cannot search for the transaction without this number!!"
I wrack my brain, and end up hiding in the corner of the bank and checking the email forward my mother sent me to see if it had a number. Nope. And now everyone in the bank knows I have a laptop.
I'm asking his supervisor why, if it's mandatory, does it say "If available" and when are they going to ask me the secret question?
Nope, no money, no luck. Literally, this guy tried to convince me that the international Western Union database only had one search parameter -- for an OPTIONAL transfer number.
Dammit. I wish people who worked in banks were at least as smart, if not smarter than, toe cheese.
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