Wednesday, 9 January 2008

To me, to you.

Nope, I've not just served the Chuckle Brothers, it's what old people like doing with their money. As they don't waste nearly enough of my time already by doddering around, not being able to find their cards/bills/letter/whatever or just droning on and on and on with banal and irrelevant details of their dull lives, a lot of them play pension ping-pong. Normal people when paying bills seem to manage passing me through all of the things they want to pay, letting me process them all and then paying for the lot in one go. This would be too easy for your average coffin dodger. A typical transaction can involve being passed a gas bill and the payment. I'll then process it and give change. I'll then be passed another bill and the payment which I'll process and then give the change. If it's just two bills, I'm getting off pretty lightly. The record is six. As annoying as this already is, it's topped off by the final transaction being the OAP getting their pension out. Their pension which would have invariably covered all of the bills they've just paid and given them change. Why the smelly buggers can't just hand me the bills and ask me to take it out of their pensions, I don't know. Actually, I suspect it's cos they're so desperate for human contact that being glowered at by me is the most pleasant human interaction they've had for a week.

It'd be a relief if the Chuckle Brothers came in frankly. At least their capering and tomfoolery wouldn't be accompanied by the acrid stink of week old piss.

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