Saturday 2 March 2013

Cash Machine Suspense

There is no sound greater than the whirring of a foreign cash machine counting notes.

Even if you have lived abroad for several months, your bank may inconsiderately decide that there has been suspicious activity on your card, i.e. shopping for groceries in Istanbul. 

Every time I go to a cash machine I hold my breath after typing my pin, anxious that this could be the time it gets blocked...again. There are a few seconds where my (financial) life flashes before my eyes; I picture myself roaming the streets of Cihangir, scraping pieces of fish left out for the cats off the floor with my useless credit cards.

Then the machine starts to whir, I breath a sigh of relief, and start thinking about what bar to go to.

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