Hey Mausam,
On my way home from work I reached South Station from where I had to catch a connecting train.All of a sudden I realised that I did'nt had enough cash on me so I went to one of the two Bank of America ATMs located inside the station itself. As I approached the ATM machine I saw a man already making a transaction on another machine and I quitely got busy in my own thing. While I was still scrambling to find the card from my wallet, the man on the other ATM machine left. As soon as he left I realised that the man did'nt took his transaction receipt/statement along. Now I had such a strong urge of quickly grabbing the receipt and look as to what was the balance in the man's bank account! I kept thinking while I was carrying out the transaction as to should i pick-up the receipt or not. While I was still contemplating the pros and cons of my probable action, I was done with my transaction and it was time to take the call, should i or should i not?
With a stroke of hand I grabbed the recipt. The balance was $22. Just $22. I started questioning/contemplating/justifying myself as to why a 40ish man who "looked" pretty educated, relatively rich would have just $22 in his account. Another observation was that he had paid $2 for using the ATM,It means that the man did not have a BoA account or he did'nt had enough cash in his BoA account. He did'nt have an account with the Sovereign Bank either as their ATM was right next to BoA ATM.Considering that BoA and Soverign Bank are two of the most popular banks in Massachusetts why will someone not have an account in these banks?
There can be numerous explanations as to why the middle aged man had just $22 in his account but the most obvious reason was that he was not rich. That is what struck me.
Since last few years I have been fairly satisfied with my financial affairs because I always had this strong belief that as life progresses I will make more assets and after a while I will not be in any sort of financial crunch. But when I imagined myself in that man's shoes I realised that it would be truly depressing, if at the age of 40 I will have just $22 in my bank account!
Regards,
Ajj Kaim
PS:I guess in the end,the cheap act of peeping into someone else's ATM statement was'nt all that bad.
13 comments:
it leaves me thinking why he has only $22 in his account.
..incase he had 22 billion$ then?
hahaha...then u might hv taken the feeling of a billionare!
i guess , it was just to remind us that we are much more better than many around!
just be working hard....its upto us what all we desire n our satisfaction level.
and i m sure u will definitely reach great heights one day...mmm...though it may matter a lil when that day comes, but still what matters really is that-the day will defintly come!
..so till then enjoy each step of ur journey.
all the best buddy!
you deserve the best n surely all ur dreams will come true.
:-)
i really appreciate ur style of writing but there r a couple of typos i came across."All of a sudden I realised that I DIDN'T HAD enough cash on me so I went to one of ....""As soon as he left I realised that the man DIDN'T TOOK his transaction receipt/statement along..."
"the man did not have a BoA account or he DIDN'T HAVE enough cash in his BoA...." in all of these there is a common error the use of past tense with DIDNT OR DID.
hey anonymous,
now u know why i scored less than the desired score in gmat :-)
hmm gud one :)
oye tunh kitttey meraa taanh account naheen check kitta estraan?? ... tinnu hor v darr lagnaa c fer ....
well, there are still poor people everywhere... they might be earning well but the money that they earned will be used to pay off debts, for family and personal expenses.... so at the end of the the day,he is left with little $. not surprising
a new look in your blog...
BBB
It is a scary thought really! Financial stability is so very important and that too when you are reaching the end of your career...on a more optimistic note-maybe this guy invested all his money and didn't need much in the checking a/c that's why it was almost empty? :)
after reading all these comments..i pitty the poor soul jinne galti naal apni slip chadd ti...
next entry please
"Didnt have" is ok. Others are NOT
Good one. I appreciate the honesty in your blogs . . should I should I not peep into other's affairs. Not many would do that. How is your job? Let us peep into your affairs.
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