**Banking Procedures**

Male Procedures -
1.Drive up to the cash machine.
2.Put down your car window.
3.Insert card into machine and enter PIN.
4. Enter amount of cash required and withdraw.
5. Retrieve card, cash and receipt.
6. Put window up.
7. Drive off.

Female Procedures -
1. Drive up to cash machine.
2. Back-up the required amount to attempt aligning the car window to machine.
3. Pull forward again attempting to align the car window to machine.
4. Set parking brakes. Put window down.
5. Find handbag, remove all contents onto passenger seat to locate ATM card.
6. Turn the radio down.
7. Attempt to insert card into machine.
8. Open car door to allow easier access to machine due to its excessive distance from the car.
9. Insert card.
10. Reinsert card the right way up.
11. Dig through handbag to find diary with your PIN written on the inside back page.
12. Enter PIN.
13. Press cancel and re enter correct PIN.
14. Enter amount of cash required.
15. Check make-up in rear view mirror.
16. Retrieve cash and receipt.
17. Put window up.
18. Empty handbag again to locate wallet and shove cash inside.
19. Shove receipt in back of checkbook.
20. Turn the radio back up.
21. Recheck make-up again.
22. Drive forward 2 feet and very abruptly stop.
23. Back-up to cash machine.
24. Retrieve card.
25. Re-empty handbag, locate cardholder and place card into the slot provided.
26. Give appropriate one-fingered hand signal to irate male drivers queuing behind.
27. Restart stalled engine and drive off.
28. Drive for 2 to 3 miles.
29. Release parking brake.

My wife drives me crazy as slow as she goes about doing many things just one speed.

I just have my wife bring me cash from the bank time to time. She deposits my checks. Puts money in savings. If I need a card I use a credit card then give my wife cash to deposit to pay for whatever I bought. Its a good system. Lots better than being along and watching her go through the procedure outlined above. Shes good at keeping track of our checking account so I dont mess with it.

I've said it before, I'll say it again......I'll just keep quiet over here. Lol

I let my wife do our banking. I will go to the garden and pull weeds which works better for me.

Bryce

You got a little bit incorrect. Go to bank. Endorse check. Hand to clerk. Clerk hands you cash. Put cash in billfold. Leave.

I hadn’t gone to the bank in 20 years or so. The wife was out of town and I got one of my trapping checks in and figured I’d go cash it.
Pulled up, signed the check, put it and the drivers license in the box and patiently waited. I noticed some confusion inside and different folks coming to the window. Finally one lady said, “Sir, are you Angie’s Mark?” I was like, Ma’am? She said, “For the past 20 years your wife has brought checks up here made out to you to get them cashed and we all talked one day and realized we all know your wife, but we thought you was some made up person.”
I said “Nope, I’m “Angie’s” Mark and I’m real.”

So I now have resumed my not going to the bank anymore.

I love women, I think they are wonderful, but if you let it, their illogical way of thinking could drive you nuts. Women, maybe not quite all women, are incapable of arriving anywhere on time or making quick decisions on ordering food, even from restaurants they have eaten at a great many times. Women generally don't want you to solve their problems, even if they are ridiculously easy to solve. They want you to empathize with how their problems make them feel.

Keith

I arrive to work 10 minutes early. I consider that early. My husband considers it late.

I wouldn't choose to go to a restaurant unless I already knew exactly what I want. If I must go to the guy's restaurant of choice, yeah, it might take me a couple minutes because I don't want ANY of it, I wanted what I wanted and now that that's no longer an option I need a moment to decide which menu item is the least disagreeable.

I'm sure I must have brought a problem to a man at some point before having made a decision, but it's not often. When I bring my problem to you, my mind is already mostly made up. I bring it to you only wanting you to confirm it, or tell me I'm insane. If the latter, I WILL reconsider it, but most times won't change my mind, lol.

You're a rare gem Angela. It probably comes from growing up as a tomboy and hanging around with mostly boys. Drifter probably has less frustration than a lot of us guys do.

I hate being late. I see no reason for it unless there is some sort of major emergency. I have tried all sorts of techniques to arrive as a couple on time, with limited success.

Keith

I've tried an equal amount of techniques to not arrive 45 minutes early with the same results, lol.

I tell my wife 45 minutes before we actually have to leave works sometimes

I still don't know what/why it takes so many women 5+ minutes to get in a car , buckle a seatbelt and put the car in gear I have no idea what else they are doing but I see so many sit there for so long.
to be fair I am seeing some men start to do this also.


I got lucky my wife is ready to drive 30 seconds in the car , get in , start , seatbelt , gear , go

are they setting up their entertainment , checking emails and texts , syncing phone to car , I don't know

but I do know if you watch a woman walk to her car and the car starts , do not expect that parking space in the next 5 minutes , just go find another they will be there doing whatever it is they do for 5-7 minutes

parking spaces are not typically an issue for me I park out in truck parking , I am going to be 2/3 of he way to the end of the lot where I can pull through the space and not back up and not have someone next to me if possible.

you have the meeting before the meeting

I dated a gal in college that could NOT get into the car without checking her makeup. Every single time.