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January 21, 2005
An interesting first
I got a call from Washington Mutual today. An unsolicited, unprovoked, unexpected, out of the blue call from the branch manager. While moving up here we discovered that our bank didn't have branches in WA, so we opened a checking account at Washington Mutual purely to get local access to money. And the manager at the branch where we opened the account called me.
"We've noticed you have a rather large balance in a free checking account, and we'd like to recommend a few investment possibilities that will allow you to earn a return on your funds."
Half the time you can't get anyone from the bank to answer simple questions - but apparently if you have enough money sitting around, they'll call you.
Too bad the vast majority of that money will leave the account next week, when we write a check to escrow for the new house. I imagine at that point, we'll go back to being "just another account." No more personal phone calls from branch managers.
Went to dinner this evening at Orrapin - a Thai restaurant in upper Queen Anne. Very tasty food, and reasonably priced. After dinner we caught Scott's set at El Diablo - the coffee and Mexican Hot Chocolate weren't as "on" as our last visit, but the set was entertaining.
Posted by dberger at January 21, 2005 10:34 PM