CL wrote:
> B Robson wrote:
> 
>>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.
> 
> 
> Why didn't you just run over to the local branch of the Bank of Austria
> (Osterreicherbank?) and cash them in there?  


Because when I said "Tokyo" I really meant vaguely Japan somewhere. I
was up in the north on the Japan Sea. I've still got those notes somewhere.