Mumbai - An Addiction

Information Technology sure has brought some monumental changes in the way we live. And all of it has been so rapid that, on one side, it must be quite difficult for a lot of people to keep up, and on the other hand, people who are accustomed to the contemporary mores don’t even know about how things used to happen even five years back. For one, I have no clue how people worked ten years back when laptops were nowhere as rampant as today. Hell, how did even people finish their studies in the 90’s without Google?

So, one day I went to my bank to deposit a cheque, my first time ever! In 2010 when I am 28! Can you even believe that? Of course I used to go to my mother’s bank as a kid and handover a cheque to the person she’d have told me to. But since I became a banking customer myself, all my transactions, absolutely all of them, have been online. So I was quite out of my element having to visit a bank to deposit a cheque. There, I discovered I had to fill in some details in the deposit slip. Amongst the details was one ‘cheque number’. And when I searched the cheque, there were quite a few numbers which could have been the cheque number. So I asked the teller which of them was the actual cheque number. He did tell me which one it was, but not without an insulting scorn.

Now it’s not my fault that Cheque numbers have been made redundant by internet banking, is it? And really, how long before cheques themselves will completely cease to exist? Think about that. Maybe I will get my chance to return the scorn to the rude teller when he is fumbling with the latest technology.

Labels: bank, technology