At last

I've finally got my debit card today, and it wasn't swallowed!!!!

Touch wood...

However, nothing goes that smoothly for me in the UK. When I used my debit card to check my account, the ATM machine displayed that I've only got 1 pound left! I panicked of course. Well, it turns out that my debit card is on a separate account to my savings account where my money has been transferred into. It's really silly. I never requested for two accounts to be opened in my bank account but the bank just does that without prior notice. And I don't see the difference between my savings account and the debit card account!

Another silly thing with the bank in the UK is that everytime you want to withdraw cash out from the counter, you either have your debit card or bring your cheque book. There are deposit slips, but there is no such thing as withdraw slip for the customers! Before I got my card this evening, I went to the bank near my lab to take cash out, just in case if my debit card wouldn't be there. I've brought along my passport with me to prove that I am the account holder, but the obese guy who received me still wouldn't really let me take money out. It wasn't until about 10 minutes have past after he's spoken to his supervisor that he finally let me do so. It just doesn't make sense. It's not like I'm borrowing money from the bank. When I'm present there and have proven myself to be the right person, why do I have to go through so much trouble to access my own money! It's not like someone would go through the trouble of having a face change to look like me so they could take the tiny amount of savings that I have in my account!