Will:
Online banking system. We have a little card reader in our desk drawer that we use to log onto the bank website and do all our transfers. The website gives me a "challenge" (I love a challenge!), a number I enter into the card reader, then the card reader asks for my PIN, and then shows, "PIN OK!" -- every time it's that surprised and excited that I know my PIN -- and then the card reader gives me a "response," and I enter that into the website, and then I am golden, and I can transfer money willy nilly all over the globe. We use cash, or we transfer funds to pay all our bills. No checks, ever.
Won't: The image on the personal banking page, a photo of a, er, shapely woman in a tanktop doing her personal banking on her laptop while she reclines on a couch and her man friend reaches over her with genuinely bulging biceps to hold her bank card.
As I sit in my pajamas and glasses with my hair in a bun, doing my online banking, and Matthew sits five feet away from me working on his laptop rather than helping me in the sinewy fashion he should, I don't like this couple or their surely huge bank accounts.
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Ha! I have the urge to see that image. Can't believe I missed out with ING. Will the US ever catch up on online banking? As I stood in line at one of our banks to withdraw money and then drove across the street to deposit it into another bank to avoid a fee, I thought about how nice the bank transfer system is and how I miss it. Although, I know there were all kinds of random fees there. Like everything else, I just kinda rolled with the mysterious "annual charge" that showed up on my account thinking "What am I really going to do about it anyway?"
I love this series! Sorry I'm hogging your comment section, but one year out it is very interesting to see what your thoughts are. I hope you keep a Minnesotan (is that what you're called?) Diary when you get back. :)
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