However this year I noticed that some machines give the cards first then the cash, and some even had prompts (a beep) if you forgot to remove the card. I think it must depend on the bank as to how the ATM is set up.
Bloody hell, I've been vindicated! Still, I hate discussing banks.
I guess what I hate the most about banks, is this feeling I’ve often gotten there, that while the money in your account is yours, earned from whatever means taken to acquire it, the banks always seem to try to make it seem it’s a privilege for you to withdraw it.
I guess it was my comment once a long time ago at the BCA office in Ubud that got me banned from going into their office...forever. Very stressed, very angry, very frustrated, my comment, roughly translated, went something like this, “yo Bu, fork it over, or I’ll have to be paying for your cremation.”
Come to find out from my wife later, my comment was completely misunderstood (thank God) and the teller, (a Javanese Muslim) took my comment to mean that she should be cremated, and not buried. Viewed less as a potential bank robber (of my own money) I am viewed there as a religious zealot. :shock:
That was a long time ago, when I was very dumb and ignorant. As the years have passed, I’m happy to acknowledge that I am less so dumb and ignorant...but I still stay clear of banks.
However, if in the future if I ever have to go back there, I will have to be dressed in full adat, carrying offerings with many smoking sticks of incense, and chanting “ohm” something...or I will be shot.
