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Exchanging
Nov. 13th, 2007 10:52 amSo, off I toddled to Citibank on Oxford Street to pay in a cheque from Party. 2.30 in the afternoon, nice and quiet. Perhaps I'll stroll down Bond Street and ogle the Vacheron Constantin watches, I thought to myself. No rush to catch a train just so that I can do my bollocks, again, on Full Tilt.
I paid in the cheque, got my transaction receipt and was walking out the front door when I glanced at the receipt. "X-Rate 2.03975" it said. Wow, I thought, that's a bit stingy, what with the pound being at $2.09 or thereabouts". Then I said, "but why is that on this transaction receipt anyway?" Then I noticed that I'd been credcited with $2,039, which was a bit odd, since I'd only actually paid in $995.
Yes, the bank teller had credited it as a sterling cheque rather than a dollar cheque.
I'm an honest kind of guy with a vague belief in karma. Also, I'm 99% sure that these things come out in the wash at the end of the day, so my going back was probably positive EV in terms of saving me trouble at a later date. I know that most poker players are moral bankrupts who would take any mistake in their favour without hesitation (hell, I came across enough of this when serving them in betting shops) and perhaps it's my long experience on 'the other side of the counter' in betting shops -- those hours looking for twenty-quid shortages when you know that the counterhand has almost certainly made a mistake for twenty quid and that you are wasting valuable drinking time, just as some scumbag boasts to his mates "yeah, I gave her a fiver and she gave me change for twenty ... still, with the money I've lost there over the years, it's only fair...."
So, I went back to the till and got the deposit corrected to the right amount. Counterhand's sole comment was, "ooh, that would have been nice, especially with Christmas coming up....". I don't think that she was quite out of the top of the barrel.
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I paid in the cheque, got my transaction receipt and was walking out the front door when I glanced at the receipt. "X-Rate 2.03975" it said. Wow, I thought, that's a bit stingy, what with the pound being at $2.09 or thereabouts". Then I said, "but why is that on this transaction receipt anyway?" Then I noticed that I'd been credcited with $2,039, which was a bit odd, since I'd only actually paid in $995.
Yes, the bank teller had credited it as a sterling cheque rather than a dollar cheque.
I'm an honest kind of guy with a vague belief in karma. Also, I'm 99% sure that these things come out in the wash at the end of the day, so my going back was probably positive EV in terms of saving me trouble at a later date. I know that most poker players are moral bankrupts who would take any mistake in their favour without hesitation (hell, I came across enough of this when serving them in betting shops) and perhaps it's my long experience on 'the other side of the counter' in betting shops -- those hours looking for twenty-quid shortages when you know that the counterhand has almost certainly made a mistake for twenty quid and that you are wasting valuable drinking time, just as some scumbag boasts to his mates "yeah, I gave her a fiver and she gave me change for twenty ... still, with the money I've lost there over the years, it's only fair...."
So, I went back to the till and got the deposit corrected to the right amount. Counterhand's sole comment was, "ooh, that would have been nice, especially with Christmas coming up....". I don't think that she was quite out of the top of the barrel.
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