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Thread Author: bathtub tom Replies: 19
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New Mon 15 Apr 13 09:35 
 ATMs - bathtub tom
I was totally flummoxed yesterday when I used an ATM.

Retrieved my card and while I was stuffing the wodge of notes into my wallet the receipt popped out, but before I could take it the damn machine sucked it back!

I suppose it's to help prevent litter. I just laughed at the impertinence of it.

Perhaps I'm getting old.
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New Mon 15 Apr 13 09:37 
 ATMs - Zero

>> Perhaps I'm getting old.

Or slow.
Last edited by: VxFan on Mon 15 Apr 13 at 10:21
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New Mon 15 Apr 13 10:04 
 ATMs - madf
Onset of Parkinsons
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New Mon 15 Apr 13 10:10 
 ATMs - Crankcase
On an almost related note, we have funky book return things in the Central Library. You put your book on a little conveyor, it reads the RFID tag, pops the title up on the screen, the conveyor whisks it silently away, there, one imagines, to be robot sorted and reshelved.All very high tech.


The other day my book stuck on the conveyor. A passing assistant came over, said "Looks like that's stuck" and bellowed through the slot "Bill, you back there?" A hand came out and grabbed the book.
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New Mon 15 Apr 13 11:26 
 ATMs - Mike Hannon
Hahaha! You'll be telling us next there are little people inside the radio...
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New Mon 15 Apr 13 12:32 
 ATMs - Slidingpillar
There are... And the telly!
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New Mon 15 Apr 13 13:11 
 ATMs - AnotherJohnH
>> There are... And the telly!

How many fatalities before you have to sweep the telly out?
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New Mon 15 Apr 13 13:19 
 ATMs - commerdriver
after every episode of Morse, Lewis, or Midsomer
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New Mon 15 Apr 13 13:37 
 ATMs - sherlock47
in every advert break in Midsomer! :)
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New Mon 15 Apr 13 15:32 
 ATMs - zookeeper
>> in every advert break in Midsomer! :)
>>

i love how channel 5 can make a 50 minute episode of columbo last for nye on 2 hours
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New Mon 15 Apr 13 17:42 
 ATMs - Zero
>> Hahaha! You'll be telling us next there are little people inside the radio...

Some of my best and funniest moments were when fixing ATM's in their relative infancy, never enjoyed work so much in my life. The pranks and japes on users were endless.
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New Mon 15 Apr 13 17:51 
 ATMs - Old Navy
>> Some of my best and funniest moments were when fixing ATM's in their relative infancy,
>> never enjoyed work so much in my life. The pranks and japes on users were
>> endless.
>>

I saw a guy fixing an ATM in Las Vegas, he had a gun, an armoured van, and an armed guard with a shotgun. Sounds like you had it quiet on your patch Z.
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New Mon 15 Apr 13 17:52 
 ATMs - Zero
They blow them up here now.
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New Mon 15 Apr 13 13:22 
 ATMs - Roger.
We have electronic check in and out. Your library card is placed under the bar code scanner and the books are just put in a large slot, any way round and one on top of another.
The titles then show on a screen with their status. A receipt may be issued if wanted, but the books have to be put in the "returned" section by you.
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New Mon 15 Apr 13 13:40 
 ATMs - Ian (Cape Town)
>> I was totally flummoxed yesterday when I used an ATM.
>>
>> Retrieved my card and while I was stuffing the wodge of notes into my wallet
>> the receipt popped out, but before I could take it the damn machine sucked it
>> back!
>>
>> I suppose it's to help prevent litter. I just laughed at the impertinence of it.
>>
>> Perhaps I'm getting old.
>>

JohnnyForeigner here...

Don't you chaps have options to
(a) have the transaction and balance sent to your mobile phone and/or internetz account?
(b) an option of 'do you want a receipt for this transaction? Y/N' when you use the hole-in-the-wall?

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New Mon 15 Apr 13 13:47 
 ATMs - Bromptonaut
>> Don't you chaps have options to
>> (a) have the transaction and balance sent to your mobile phone and/or internetz account?
>> (b) an option of 'do you want a receipt for this transaction? Y/N' when you
>> use the hole-in-the-wall?

Both. But I still like a receipt for the withdrawal. It provides (a) a cross check of the balance and (b) lets me tally it and SWMBO's transactions with the on line statement.
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New Mon 15 Apr 13 13:49 
 ATMs - Ian (Cape Town)
"We always put enough in, because I might be on the other side on saturday night"

(reference to carp ad for somebody circa 1992)
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New Mon 15 Apr 13 13:56 
 ATMs - Armel Coussine
I once delayed removing my card from a money machine. Can't remember why, but after ten seconds or so the card silently disappeared into the machine. It was a terrible nuisance getting it back (or did they send a new one?).
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New Mon 15 Apr 13 23:29 
 ATMs - Armel Coussine
>> Both. But I still like a receipt for the withdrawal. It provides (a) a cross check of the balance and (b) lets me tally it and SWMBO's transactions with the on line statement.

Bromptonaut, please reassure me that you aren't one of the people who after twenty minutes of online banking, carefully put all the bumf away in separate compartments of their wallets and think for another thirty seconds or so before finally moving their fornicating rectums out of the adjectival way for the queue of 15 or so?

We got a lot of those at the Ladbroke Grove Barclays. There was one yesterday. Only 2 of the 3 machines were working. Zero's little joke no doubt.
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New Tue 16 Apr 13 04:28 
 ATMs - Dave_
When using the (free) 3rd-party ATM outside my local shop, I have to go through the following:

"Please select your transaction: Balance on screen; Cash & balance; Cash with receipt; Cash only"

Presses Cash only

"Would you like to view your balance? Yes; No"

Presses No

"Plsase choose amount of cash: £10; £20; £30; £40; Other amount"

Presses Other amount

Enters £50

"Would you like a receipt? Yes; No"

Gah. Are the public really so stupid they have to be asked everything three times? I fear they may be, given how frequently this ATM seems to have the last user's receipt hanging from the slot when I come to use it...
Last edited by: Dave_TiD on Tue 16 Apr 13 at 04:29
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