CL wrote:
> declan_murphy@hotmail.com wrote:
> 
>>jwb@csse.monash.edu.au wrote:
>>
>>>Michael Cash <mikecash@buggerallspammers.com> dixit:
>>
>>Last time I visited Cambridge (the other one) I went to 4 or 5 banks
>>trying to change yen (cash) into USD. Same "do you have an account with
>>us" BS. I'd only been in Sepponia 6 hours or so. Everytime I gets the
>>shits with the staff at UFJ I find the easiest way to relax is to
>>remember that at least it isn't a sepponian bank.
> 
> 
> Many years ago, when I worked for a major motorcycle manufacturer, I
> needed dollars and stopped off at the branch of Union Bank closest to
> the US headquarters of my employer.  

While I sympathise, imagine trying to get rid of Austrian Schillings
when they had just changed to plastic and word hadn't filtered out to
remote areas like Tokyo.