B Robson wrote:
> 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.

Ahhh ... you didn't say "inaka".  You ought to bring them to Tokyo
(best), Osaka (good), or Nyaagoya (hey, sailor, feeling lucky?)  on your
next trip to civilization.  They may still be worth most of a good stiff
drink.

CL