Yesterday I stopped at the Bank of America on Needham Street in Newton – not exactly a high-crime district. I was really surprised to see an ARMED GUARD standing out in front eating a banana. There have been more bank robberies lately so I guess it’s becoming a necessity, but it was still surprising. Armed guards are much more common in other countries – we saw them everywhere when we were in Africa. Sometimes they have machine guns. Scary.
Speaking of the bank, the new ATM machines are so cool! You don’t need an envelope to make a deposit, and when you feed your checks into the slot, it scans them and figures out the amount of the checks. Be careful because the amount was incorrect on one of mine, but it’s still pretty amazing. I always get the receipt with the checks printed right on it, just in case.
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