The next decade....what's in store?

The saga of the US dollar note has ended

Did I mention earlier on that I got a hundred dollar note from Scotiabank in St Kitts and is when I was separating it out later that afternoon (when the bank was closed and I was leaving that evening) that I noticed that it was torn?

So that was what happened, because when I'm getting money, I don't re-examine the notes because I count along when the teller is counting.

When I got to Jamaica, I attempted to lodge it at NCB (I thought that since a bank had given it to me, it was good...I will attach a picture), they said nah uh, we can't accept it. Same story at my Scotiabank branch in Liguanea. Same thing at Bank of Jamaica.

Contacted the operations manager in St Kitts who said if I returned the note to her, she would give me a draft. But how would I get it to her? Million dollar question.

After several e-mail correspondence and telephone calls (one in which she said that people there were asking her why she going through so much trouble and is the customer (*my*) fault, and intimated that it could not be proven that I had in fact got it from that bank in St Kitts), she said that she knew someone from St Kitts who was currently in Jamaica and she would ask him to take it back for me.

She called me back to tell me the name of the guy. Then she says "and he says he knows you". Sure enough. He's half Guyanese/half Jamaican and I met him because I was being fast one day in St Kitts. He was having lunch in a restaurant near the office and somebody was giving him hassle and I intervened (I was heading to my *rental* car which was parked nearby) and then we got talking. Turns out that he works for a company that was a competitor of one of the companies in the group that I was associated with.

Monday night, I went by where he was staying here in Jamdown, gave him the bill, then he asked how the bank lady was going to get the replacement to me. I told him she said she was going to send me a draft. He suggested that he give me the bill, and he would square up with her when he got back to St Kitts. Excellent suggestion.

So now the money can start to earn the likkle bit of interest that the bank pays. (Teefs)

See di pick-cha here...

Posted by yamfoot at January 26, 2005 08:16 PM