Over Protection
The other day, my wife was detained at a bank for more than an
hour and a half.
She went to the bank to draw some money. The bank teller, suspicious
of the high amount of the withdrawal--actually 2,000,000 yen--asked her to wait
for a moment.
Soon two policemen came to the bank and asked her
many and various questions:
“Why do you need such a lot of money? Where do you live?
Please show us any document that verified the reason for the withdrawal. Could you
tell us the name and telephone number of your son?” and so on and on and on.
She answered all the questions and told them she did not
want to bother her son who might be busily engaged in his business, adding she
could connect her husband (myself). First, they refused her to do so
because I was also an old man.
Finally,
exhausted with too many interrogations, she told them she gave up withdrawing
her money. Then, they telephoned me if it was OK with me with her drawing the
money. I said, No problem.
At
last, the bank teller handed her the money.
I understand
the bank and the policemen are protecting the customers, especially the aged,
from being scammed. Almost every day I hear and read about the victims.
But aren’t
they overprotecting the customers? My wife was a victim of the excessive
protection. She was extremely exhausted and angry. Why did she have to wait for
an hour and a half to withdraw her own money?
