GOOD BANKING STORY
Stories about innocent remarks made by bank customers began with the dear old lady who protested that her account could not be overdrawn since she still had three cheques left in her cheque book, says a writer in the Weekly Scotsman. One of the pleasant war stories -was of a sprightly young officer who wanted to overdraw £SO without security. A benevolent bank manager gave the young man a paternal lecture on the danger of such an advance from the bank's point of view. "What would happen to the bank, especially' in war time, if it gave overdrafts of all its young military clients?" The youth listened patiently, then he patted the elderly manager on the shoulder and said: "I'll tell you what is really the difficulty, old bean. You are losing your nerve." Another story is that the bank customer who, on being told by a conversational teller that the pound had gone down to 13s. 6d., drew a cheque for £2 os. 6d, and said: "In that case, I'll take three of them, please."
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVI, Issue 3443, 15 March 1932, Page 6
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