ATM Machine

It was an evening queueing up at a POSB/DBS ATM machine. I needed to deposit some money.

Right at the machine, was a man carrying a sling bag. There were 2 people in front of me. The young man stood very close to the machine, and kept his bag close to the machine, like he feared somebody robbing him.

He took out a stack of $50 bills, and put that into the machine to deposit it away. When the machine finished counting his bills and completed the transaction, he pressed for another transaction.

In went his hand into his bag, out came another stack of $50 bills. In went the bills into the machine, and out came the screen to ask for another transaction. He pressed "yes".

This carried on for like 10 minutes.

The man in front of me, by this time was getting very fed-up already. He turned around impatiently and gave an angry sigh. I looked at him and asked "You been here for quite some time?" He nodded his head and turned back, too angry to say anything.

5 more minutes later, the idiot was still there, shoving stacks of $50 repeatedly into the machine.

By this time, I had grown wiser, and jumped to the queue for the neighbouring machine. The lind behind the idiot had grown weary of waiting, and were talking to each other. The idiot, remained cool and ignored the long line that had formed behind him.

What's wrong with the idiot? Can't he queue during the daytime and deposit the money manually? Everybody knows the machines are for quick access, for deposit or withdrawal of money. Nobody expects anybody else to have more than 2-3 trasactions at the machines.

Maybe the bank should impose a limit on this. If everybody started queueing up for the machines, and spending 10-15 minutes each at the machines, what difference is there in a machine, and the previous manual queues for depositing/withdrawing of money from the bank accounts?

We'll all be back to the early 80's, where you had to queue for 30 minutes when the bank had just opened, just to deposit that $100 into your bank account.

What's wrong with the idiot.