TIL a lot of American ATMs have withdrawal fees. Man is nothing free over there?
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They’re called ATMs because you’re expected to eat shit after they fuck you.
Clerks 2 represented that as acceptable behavior.
Absolutely not into kink shaming, but non-coerced consent is key, and a foundation of finance is coercion.
In the movie, the main character, his love interest and an unassociated but still primary character declare that ATM is not okay.
Later in the movie, the tertiary character I mentioned is not present and the other two are flirting heavily. The female love interest says "in the heat of the moment, sometimes ATM is okay." (I might be paraphrasing, it's been a lot of years since I saw movie, but the sentiment is correct.) The other character then shows up and shames her.
Consent is hugely important. Even stuff like CNC very heavily depends on consent - and should. However, in the movie, I don't think it's a concept being challenged.
However, in case anything I've said implies otherwise ... No means no and begging until you get a yes is not a yes.
Hold on. ATMs in the US have fees?
Fuck an ATM fee. I keep some money in a Federal Credit Union, then I just look for FCU ATMs which allow you to withdraw without fees, regardless of which bank owns the ATM. FCU density seems regional though so this likely doesn't work a lot of places, YMMV
Look up credit unions near you part of the co op network. Basically you can use any atms on that network as long as yours participates.
I once dated a girl who was with a bank that paid you back any fees incurred at any ATM.
I don't really remember the details, but I think that bank was super local or had restricted membership or something like that. Still an impressive offer, though.
There are a small number of banks that do this. One off the top of my head is Schwab's checking account.
I agree, I considered some local bank with restricted membership, but I run into the issue that I travel A LOT so I'm not likely to be near that bank.
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