Avoiding Disasters again

[bogwitch]

That armed siege in Watford today, was at my bank! Not that I ever go in there (I think I've been in twice), but still, my branch, of my bank.

I did wonder if it was still open.

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Comments

[woman_of_]

Sounds like it was quite disruptive. *sigh* more timecomsuming than dangerous by the report

[bogwitch]

Doing anything in Watford is quite disruptive, the traffic is always appalling.

[gillo]

Eep! You have an impressive talent...

Like the layout. The truquoise is easier on teh eye than orange.

[bogwitch]

It's quite a good one, although I didn't manage to avoid being in the shop when the local Blockbusters was robbed at knifepoint.

[bogwitch]

Is the layout really better, I actually find it a bit busy.

[sp23]

Holy crap! That sounds like something out of Flashpoint.

[bogwitch]

I have no idea what that is so I will take your word for it. I feel a bit sorry, it's probably the emptiest bank you'll ever go in. Hence the wondering if they were still there.

[sp23]

Flashpoint is a Canadian show (shown on CBS here) starring Veronica Mars's dad about a Special Response police unit. They're always running off to bank hostage/siege situations. Apparently Canada is a much more dangerous country than we've all been led to believe. LOL

[bogwitch]

Sounds it.

[quinara]

Ooh er! Maybe you never go there, but I doubt anyone would bother with Lloyds in Chesham, so you're one up on me.

(On the layout, since I saw Gill mentioned it, I do like it very much! It does slightly confuse me, but only because on my journal the text is white-ish (pale grey) and the links are turquoise (visited ones actual white to blend mostly back into the text). Practically everything on your page looks like a link! Link link link...)

[bogwitch]

You never know, the Co Op is hardly a mecca for banking, I've never seen anyone else in it (though I think I've only been in two or three times, when telephone banking couldn't quite sort me out).

(I think it's a stop gap until I can find a better base, but I said that last time! I find it all a bit busy and I hate the page summary part, especially on my Friends page, but I can't get rid of it. I want a Tag Cloud!)

[quinara]

I'm fairly sure I've never actually been inside 'my' bank. I set the account up in Chorleywood, but the branch closed a few years later, so they automatically shifted the sort codes elsewhere. Any time I actually needed to go to the bank after that I went to Ricky, which obviously would have been the far more sensible place for them to shift it all.

(Not tag clouds! I don't know why I'm against them, but I tend to find lists much handier. I know what you mean about page summaries, though I actually find the one on my flist useful sometimes, if I want to click on a profile or a name without scrolling aaaaaall the way down (especially on days when no one's used any cuts).)

[bogwitch]

I've been to set up the account and to get a banker's draft (they didn't know what it was!) to buy a car (not either of my last two cars either) and I think that might be it.

(Maybe I like them because I've never had one, but I use the fag ends one all the time. I rarely use the summary.)

[shapinglight]

Apparently, it was an inside job.

[bogwitch]

Really?

[shapinglight]

Yes, it was on the news, I think. One of the people arrested actually worked in the bank.

[bogwitch]

Hmm. That's interesting seeing as he was supposed have gone into the NatWest first.