Sunday, November 30, 2008

some manners in the ATM lobby pls

Friday was a good day for me. i was all syked up to go to Nairobi 4 two things. it was a weekend and it was the end of the month. my plans were well laid out. i fika tow, the first thing is to go the ATM, get cash and then treat my self to a nice city meal.
so i got to Nairobi and headed for the ATM. i went to the nearest lobby and it was extremely packed (kawaida ya Equity bank) so i decided to move to the next nearest lobby. getting there, the situation was worse. it was a smaller lobby that was more crowded but for some funny reason i decided to just queue there. thats when i took my time to look around. is it just me who noticed or people have the bad habit of peeping at other people's details at the ATM lobby? since the place was so crowded, the people behind and especially those in the next queue got a very good view of the ATM screen. that is such an irritating habit.
so came my turn to withdraw. at the back of my mind i knew that most probably i had more than one person watching. so i wanted to withdraw as fast as possible. the most unfortunate thing is that i did not have cash in my account so all i got was my ATM and a receipt with an error message!! can you just imagine the embarrassment???????? i had been on that queue for that long to just withdraw nothing!!! and to make matters worse, someone peeped that!!! i was so damn embarrassed. i appreciate the fact that more people are warming up towards technology by using the ATMs, but can the lobbys have more privacy please. Or maybe there should be posters reading 'MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS ' anybody feels me on this one?

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