its move your money day and i am not gonna move a %$#* dime

[SwampG8r]

you heard me right
i have never let a "bank" hold my money since my first "bank" account in which i had kept meticulous records including my copies of deposits and withdrawls and found a discrepency of $.41 in the banks favor
even when shown every piece of paper and totaling and adding and subtracting and coming to the same number i had they refused to give me my god damn 41 cents
it became a point of principle and i was ultimately given the choice of leaving by my own or being taken to county jail for trespassing.
this was in the 1970s when you could still be insistant of your rights without being seen as a civil threat
i took every penny except the 41 mother freaking cents they knew i was owed and went to my just formed local credit union
in those days you had to actually qualify for membership through work or some organization
i qualified so i joined
the lady who filled out forms with me credited me with an extra 41 cents
yeah thats right she made my initial deposit 41 cents more i dont know how it worked out at the end of the day but i never felt more love to another human than i did when she did that one simple thing
when i got married they set me up when i needed a car they helped me get a good one for a good price and never gave me any thing but help in making the loans
when i bought a house they were there again and did everything to make it easy and low cost
later they helped with my improvements and so many other things i cant even recall
in the first days you got checking and savings not much interest
when they invented plastic money there the credit union was again with a debit card set with visa to carry credit on the same account
so in the morning when you run to move that cash i wont move a sous
i will actually make a deposit and leave the crushing to you
i suggest BofA Chase anything in the Citigroup and do a little look at who these people own
kmart and pennys sears and so so many other tentacles
and tell em i told em so

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My dear SwampG8r...

Well said!

I've belonged to a Credit Union too, since 1980, and I will always be there.

You told 'em, and beautifully!

[SwampG8r]

2. i love my credit union even when they said...... mmmmnah, i

always agreed later they were right

[Iwillnevergiveup]

3. Great story

and my experiences with a credit union over the years are in complete alignment with yours.

This reminds me years ago when I got a bill from Penney's and sent them a check that was apparently 1 cent short. Yup, got another bill for $.01. My husband was so insensed he wrote out another check to "J. C. Penny Pinchers" for a penny. He then left off a return address and stamp when he mailed it in. This was in the days before mail was undeliverable without postage, so yes, Penney's did cash the check, but they also paid for a stamp. Oooh, we were bad.

K&R

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[cliffordu]

5. NOW we're talking!!!!

Howdy, swampG8er

How areya???

:hi:

[SwampG8r]

6. been a tough year but still alive and well

how you doing?

[cliffordu]

12. I'm awright -

finally got divorced, moved back into my Airstream, found a nice young lady to spend my weekends with.....

Pretty good, actually.

[rug]

7. Damn, I'm glad I don't work a register any more.

[SwampG8r]

8. hey.....i had all the damn records

stupid asshole even did the math and i could see the freaking number on his calculator
he was just not gonna give me my god damn money
and it was like 1972 i was making 1.05 an hour so this represented a good amount of my working day

[rug]

9. Oh, I'm not blaming you.

I'm just saying I wouldn't want to be one dealing with this.

FWIW, I recall an epic fight I had with the phone company when the pay phone didn't return my quarter.

[hlthe2b]

10. Have used nothing but credit unions for decades.

Never going back.

[Tesha]

11. She probably gave you the $0.41 out of her own pocket.

It's what I would have done in the same circumstances.

And you've paid her good will back (and forward) so
it was the right thing to do, wasn't it?

Tesha

[lonestarnot]

13. Thanks for that!