Further proof that bankers are vampires
There is no wood at all in the entire Southgate branch of Nat West. I know this, because at lunchtime I had a financial review with a bank manager about what I'm doing, my plans for banking &s &s, and along with a lot of him being really impressed with how sensible I was (No, I'm living like this, yes I do plan to get a mortgage but not right now. Yes, I have savings, but my income is lower than my cost of living right now so I can't save regularly. So, what fees am I looking at? Can I reduce the overdraft?), there was a lot of talk about life insurance, financial buffer zones and what might happen if I lose my job or die horribly in a fire while visiting Bing.
And it turns out I'm crazy superstitious. And at the first mention of 'should the worst happen' I started looking around for some wood to touch.
Nothing.
Not even a wood veneer on the desk. Not even a wooden pencil.
NOTHING that might be used as a quick symbolic allusion to the Cross to ward off bad luck. And coincidentally, nothing that could be effectively driven through a banker's heart when he tried to attack me.
There's also a suspicious lack of natural light in there and I might also notice that all the banks in Southgate are a considerable distance from the Italian restaurants*. There aren't any French restaurants at all.
Vampires, I'm telling you.
*except Nationwhide, which is still a building society and thus staffed not by vampires but by zombies.
And it turns out I'm crazy superstitious. And at the first mention of 'should the worst happen' I started looking around for some wood to touch.
Nothing.
Not even a wood veneer on the desk. Not even a wooden pencil.
NOTHING that might be used as a quick symbolic allusion to the Cross to ward off bad luck. And coincidentally, nothing that could be effectively driven through a banker's heart when he tried to attack me.
There's also a suspicious lack of natural light in there and I might also notice that all the banks in Southgate are a considerable distance from the Italian restaurants*. There aren't any French restaurants at all.
Vampires, I'm telling you.
*except Nationwhide, which is still a building society and thus staffed not by vampires but by zombies.