It was a day of extreme pressure.
Mom was down with severe pain around her girdle. She'd fallen down at the courtyard a day prior to our recent trip to Thiruvananthapuram. It's confirmed that there were no damages to her bones as she'd moved extensively during our trip. Probably, it's the morning nip and the daily massages should do the trick! And Lekha was down with sustained cramps in the lower abdomen which she insisted on attributing to the food had outside, yesterday, in the course of our journey.
But my apprehensions were due to another factor which I kept to myself to avoid creating a panic for no rhyme or reason. Thanks to her prolonged medication, she's stones in her gall bladder and between her doctor and me, we'd decided to leave them alone as they're, in medical parlance, asymptomatic! Have they perked up? If the answer was affirmative it would entail nothing short of a surgery.
With medical advice through the telephone, the situation was brought under control by late afternoon. But their physical condition had brought about extreme pressure at least for some time, I must admit.
Tailpiece.
1. It's a 'heads-I-win, tails-you-lose' sort of a situation. Consider these:-
(a) At first, the banks had discouraged customers from using the cheque book facility, because:-
(i) they wanted to encourage(?) paperless transactions thereby reducing the customer's waiting time
at the counters and the clutter they caused in the banks - especially within the first five days, every
month, when the pensioners visited from far and wide.
(ii) every cheque book issued was charged for.
(iii) and they'd permitted the use of the 'ATM' cards on any bank's machine with the offer of the
first five transactions to be free of service charges.
(b) The people had warmed up to this changed state of affairs and the arrangement seemed to have
been working fine for all concerned.
(c) But now comes the coup-de-tat. It's been announced that all ATM transactions are gonna be
charged, effectively knocking off the free transactions that were permissible, even on one's own
bank!
2. My crib is only on one count. If the ATM transactions were gonna be charged, why didn't they've the guts to spill the beans right at the start when they'd begun discouraging the use of the cheque book facility? The public would have accepted it anyway because it's the question of handling their own hard earned savings! This is, what I'd term, professional dishonesty!!
Mom was down with severe pain around her girdle. She'd fallen down at the courtyard a day prior to our recent trip to Thiruvananthapuram. It's confirmed that there were no damages to her bones as she'd moved extensively during our trip. Probably, it's the morning nip and the daily massages should do the trick! And Lekha was down with sustained cramps in the lower abdomen which she insisted on attributing to the food had outside, yesterday, in the course of our journey.
But my apprehensions were due to another factor which I kept to myself to avoid creating a panic for no rhyme or reason. Thanks to her prolonged medication, she's stones in her gall bladder and between her doctor and me, we'd decided to leave them alone as they're, in medical parlance, asymptomatic! Have they perked up? If the answer was affirmative it would entail nothing short of a surgery.
With medical advice through the telephone, the situation was brought under control by late afternoon. But their physical condition had brought about extreme pressure at least for some time, I must admit.
Tailpiece.
1. It's a 'heads-I-win, tails-you-lose' sort of a situation. Consider these:-
(a) At first, the banks had discouraged customers from using the cheque book facility, because:-
(i) they wanted to encourage(?) paperless transactions thereby reducing the customer's waiting time
at the counters and the clutter they caused in the banks - especially within the first five days, every
month, when the pensioners visited from far and wide.
(ii) every cheque book issued was charged for.
(iii) and they'd permitted the use of the 'ATM' cards on any bank's machine with the offer of the
first five transactions to be free of service charges.
(b) The people had warmed up to this changed state of affairs and the arrangement seemed to have
been working fine for all concerned.
(c) But now comes the coup-de-tat. It's been announced that all ATM transactions are gonna be
charged, effectively knocking off the free transactions that were permissible, even on one's own
bank!
2. My crib is only on one count. If the ATM transactions were gonna be charged, why didn't they've the guts to spill the beans right at the start when they'd begun discouraging the use of the cheque book facility? The public would have accepted it anyway because it's the question of handling their own hard earned savings! This is, what I'd term, professional dishonesty!!
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