And it isn't even mine...
Jimmy cashed in a PEP managed by HSBC, and was told it would be in his HSBC current account in five days. Two weeks later he got a letter from his bank saying he was past his overdraft limit and a payment to his HSBC credit card had been bounced. For these two transgressions he would have to pay a heavy penalty. He made investigations and it seemed that the PEP people had taken two weeks to make a payment into his current account. He then got his credit card statement charging him for the fact that his payment had bounced, not to mention the interest.
We are just awaiting his bank statement, due at the end of the week, before I write a very polite but very snotty letter demanding exactly why HSBC are stealing nearly a hundred pounds from him as a consequence of their ineptitude.
Ten days ago I attempted to buy a couple of tickets online with his card, but the card was rejected. I tried again this evening, but they didn't even let me get to the stage of submitting the card details before they said "Your tickets have been reserved, please arrange a bank transfer within five days in order to honour this arrangement." Or words to this effect - it was actually in German, not one of my main languages.
So tomorrow I shall go to a branch of my bank - in the lunchbreak before I attend a course in a building the other side of Westminster village - in order to make this transfer to a German bank. I suspect they will charge about £30 for this transfer - which I shall also demand back from HSBC.
Still, in the end I shall prove what a good girlfriend I am by taking him to Berlin for a romantic weekend as a birthday treat, with a concert at the Waldbuhne thrown in as an extra bonus.
Any suggestions as to what are must see sights in Berlin in August?
