Illogical

So, Ben and I have joint bank accounts; we don't have individual accounts and both of our names are on all of our accounts. But we have two log ins, because the bank created two log ins at the start.

I do the bill paying in my house, and today I was trying to pay some of the payments involved in this building project. And the payment won't go through because it exceeds the daily allowed transfer amount; this came in as a security measure a few years ago. Fair enough.

So I ring the bank and ask the payment to be released, and the guy swears it's not showing up, and I have to do it again while we're on the phone, and it's still not showing up. Until the guy checks Ben's account and he comes down like a ton of bricks saying Ben and I are breaching our contract with the bank by me logging on as him.

I almost said, "check the bloody names on our account", but I didn't. Instead, I said the bank is culturally insensitive to Japanese wives whose husbands just tell them to do this and do that, and we're only following orders; I was hoping the call guy was in India. He emphatically agreed shouting "Indeedy!!", though I couldn't be sure.