Point-less

Posted by Skytower on Sat January 10, 2009

Back when I was a lad, we’d wait longingly until we were old enough to open a bank account. Then, days later, a small rectangular piece of plastic would arrive, in a security-sealed envelope, through your door. For the sheer hell of it, you’d pay some money into this bank account, just so you could use this rectangular piece of card to see if these cashpoint things really worked. And wow, out of this hole-in-the-wall would come MONEY! What a thrill it was…

Of course, these days it’s all new fangled. You don’t need a rectangular piece of plastic. That’s so old fashioned. A fork-lift truck is much more efficient, and gives a truer meaning to the term “hole-in-the-wall”.

Yes, locals may have heard this story – the post office in the “sleepy” village of Keyworth is now minus its cash machine. Looks a bit of a mess, too…