Don't even try to tell me I'm being egocentric. I know it's true because this is the fourth bank I have caused to fail. Can I even remember their names?
I know the first was Great American. I liked them. My inner voodoo priestess, however, did not. Maybe it was the convenient drive-thru that preceded its time (I think she didn't like through being spelled thru, so gauche). Maybe it was the 25-foot Christmas tree that angered her. She's got her own holidays and all the deck-the-halls and holly-jollies got to her. All I know is that in August of 1991, Great American fell and sent us to Wells Fargo, Wells Fargo who does not credit a deposit immediately which for virtual newlyweds living as a carpenter and a waitress did not fly.
Yes, we lived in the days of writing a check on Wednesday at the grocery store knowing we got paid on Friday and it would all work out... but not with the demonic stagecoach riders. So we changed to...
Another bank, its name escapes me. People's? First Californian? First American? I think the Voodoo Priestess within wants me to forget the wrath she wielded. I've been searching the internets for a good half-hour now trying to find it. The new checks, the ATM cards, the inconvenient branch locations, you know. After the mystery bank came,
Great Western (I guess we like "Great" things). Yet, in March 1997, they failed as well:
Mar 7, 1997 - By SAUL HANSELL. Great Western Financial, moving to thwart a hostile takeover offer by HF Ahmanson & Company, said yesterday that it had agreed to be acquired by Washington Mutual for stock worth $6.6 billion in a deal that would create the country's largest savings and loan ...
Which of course leads us to today. Fuck me. I guess we're Chase people now, that company of course being a result of a merger with JP Morgan (that happened when I worked at Peregrine Systems which went under and was purchased by HP while Carla Fee-o-rena "ran" the place, apparently my voodoo priestess likes to screw with corporations as well).
So here we are, "Chase"-ing what little cash we have blowing in the wind down this dusty dirt road we call life. By the way, Bob, I see no answers here.
Yeah, I find myself going through banks like vacuum bags ---- they all start out clean and tidy and by the next time I turn around they are oozing yuck and I can't dispose of them without getting it all over me in the process!
Posted by: Karalyn | September 29, 2008 at 05:29 PM
Can you join a credit union? I've had a credit union acct since I was 10 (a good long time ago).
My mother recently lost $10,000, thank God she had money in safer banks, but who knows where this will end.
Posted by: Sharon | December 17, 2008 at 09:08 PM