
Nowadays ATMs are so ubiquitous that anyone who doesn't consider them the primary way of doing everyday transactions, and tellers as a secondary approach usually used only for unusual transactions. We're entirely used to the convenience of weekends and evenings -- imagine telling a teenager today that we used to have no way to get out cash on a Friday night and see how close it sounds to saying that you used to treat cancer with leeches.
So I almost feel like a curmudgeon to be annoyed at the idea of ATM fees. It just burns my bottom that the banks are charging us to forego tellers, which costs them more. They're counting on the fact that we've forgotten that ATMs are far more for their benefit than ours.
We were considering buying tickets for Sherlock Holmes online today but they charge an extra dollar for it. Again, for whose benefit is this? Sure, it's nice for me to have saved ten seconds -- maybe, since we can't pick up the tickets without going through at least one of the lines at the theater anyway -- and I get to know I have a seat, not that there's really much chance of a sold-out show. But the real point of it is reducing the movie theater's labor costs, and letting them have your money a little sooner. And yet they charge us for the privilege?
Grrrrrrrr.
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