Citizen Dog by Mark O'Hare for January 03, 2021

If anyone caught me talking back to that machine, they’d call me crazy.

Good morning, cleo, sugar, Fellow Baby & the rest of the CD gang!

I was charged $8 to move money into a bank account from another bank. I’m giving them money, and they charged me for it; you gotta love that.

Me: Here’s $1000.

Bank: Give us $8 of it and will take it.

The only one of those things i use is the one at my bank.

Good morning Mudd.

The first I every heard of this charge was when I was a landlord and a tenant was moving out and was due the return of his security deposit. I handed him a check and he told me he didn’t have a bank and that to cash the check, he’d have to pay that charge. I told him I didn’t have enough cash to cover the whole amount and he’d have to come back in a few days after I got to the bank. He took the check…

About 2 hours ago Mudd said,

You card,you. Ha,haa. :)

How long has it been since you could find an ATM willing to spit out anything less than a 20-dollar bill?[squints at comic date]………… 1996?

(I know when I got my first ATM card in late 1982 machines were willing to spit out 5s and 20s; within about 2 years they switched to 10s and 20s, claiming the vast majority of transactions were in round tens amounts. Now machines spit out 20s and 50s, with some rare machines issuing 100s………)