The ATM That Changed History
The next morning, discharged and shaky, I walked to the downtown branch of the bank issued on the card. I didn’t want to use an ATM; I was terrified the machine would eat the card or tell me it had expired after five years of inactivity.
I approached the teller, a woman with kind eyes and bright red lipstick.
“I’d like to withdraw the balance and close this account,” I said, sliding the card across the marble counter. “It should be around three hundred dollars.”
She nodded, typed in the numbers, and frowned. She stopped typing. She took off her glasses, wiped them, put them back on, and leaned closer to the screen.
“Ma’am?” she asked.
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