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The other day I visited my bank representative to talk about how to allocate my small program that was recently transferred from another institution because they didn’t show that they cared. I couldn’t monitor its current status because they don’t give you a way to do that. They send you a report once a year and figure that’s good enough. Meanwhile, they use your money to make money.

And that was the line that was part of my helpful reps comment. We were talking about something regarding something else about the world economy or buying more Ferraris or parenting or Arthritis or precious metals or CEO’s or the weather, but not about my “portfolio” yet. I just felt that this other stuff was more interesting.

I made the comment that “You spend money to make money” and before the ink was dry on that one she said, “You spend money to make money, but banks only like to make money”.

Oh now I remember, we were talking about different email providers and how the bank still used Outlook and how outdated it was for the business world. The bank was too cheap to upgrade one of their primary communication tools. She was just frustrated that she could do her job better and provide better customer service if the bank wasn’t so cheap.

In fact, most of our communications are by email primarily to set-up the cup of coffee like sessions that we have. And the next time, I’d like to go to the coffee shop next door and have our session there. I’ll sign the paperwork in the office after we get the important stuff covered first. I don’t think they can bring a cup of coffee into their office or provide one for the customer.

I’m even thinking of ditching the home telephone. No more telemarketers. In the spring I will probably do that and get a CC to take care of stuff while working on the golf course. Then I won’t have to go ask somebody to borrow their watch again. It isn’t much different cost wise either so I have found out.

I’m finding, that between Facebook and email, more than 95% of my meaningful communications are handled effectively there and with no long distance charges to boot.

Just got to figure out if I want one of those CC’s with the tiny little keyboard or not.

If god had intended you to use one of those keyboards he would have given you a needle …

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