Thursday 1 March 2007

Nearly free speech


This comments box was in Barclays today. Happily enough I don't bank with them, but from what I've heard, the comments are highly unlikely to be polite. This lone comment could be open to interpretation. There's a chance that some partially sighted old biddy mistook this for a charity box. But surely she would have donated more than a mere tuppence. No, I believe someone very deliberately left this comment. That enduring several years of banking with Barlcays lead to the cynical, and undoubtably correct, belief that this was how much a comment would be worth.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Maybe it's a tip. Suitable acknowledgement of the wondrous service these big banks provide.

QUILL@QUILLUSTRATION.COM said...

Just returned to said bank and there's now a total of 25p in there. It's now amounting to quite a hefty tip. Perhaps they did perform a wondrous service after all.