{"id":67292,"date":"2024-02-02T21:46:45","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T14:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alternatech.net\/?p=67292"},"modified":"2024-02-02T22:26:49","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T15:26:49","slug":"a-little-old-lady-tried-to-phone-her-local-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writehorizon.com\/a-little-old-lady-tried-to-phone-her-local-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"A Little Old Lady Tried To Phone Her Local Bank."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority='\"high\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"aligncenter' size-full wp-image-67310 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/alternatech.net%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2024%5C/02%5C/4.png%5C%22" alt='\"\"' width='\"2000\"' height='\"1600\"'>\n</p><p>A little old lady tried to phone her local bank but was put through instead to the bank\u2019s call centre.\n</p><p><strong>\u201cIs that the High Street branch?\u201d she asked.\n<p><strong>\u201cNo madam,\u201d replied the voice at the other end.\n<p><strong>\u201cIt is now company policy to deal with telephone calls centrally.\u201d\n<p><strong>\u201cWell I really need to speak to the branch,\u201d said the old lady.\n<p><strong>\u201cMadam, if you just let me know your query, I\u2019m sure I can help you.\u201d\n<p><strong>\u201cI don\u2019t think you can, young man. I need to speak to the branch.\u201d<br>\nThe call centre operator was adamant.\n<p><strong>\u201cThere\u2019s nothing that the branch can help you with that can\u2019t be dealt with by me.\u201d\n<p><strong>\u201cVery well then,\u201d sighed the old lady.\n<p><strong>\u201cCan you just check on the counter? Did I leave my gloves behind when I came in this morning?\u201d\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little old lady tried to phone her local bank but was put through instead to the bank\u2019s call centre. \u201cIs that the High Street branch?\u201d she asked. \u201cNo madam,\u201d replied the voice at the other end. \u201cIt is now company policy to deal with telephone calls centrally.\u201d \u201cWell I really need to speak to\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67310,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[676],"tags":[384],"class_list":{"0":"post-67292","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jokes","8":"tag-jokes"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/writehorizon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/4-e1706887604598.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writehorizon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writehorizon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writehorizon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writehorizon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writehorizon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/writehorizon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writehorizon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writehorizon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writehorizon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writehorizon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}</p></strong></p></strong></p></strong></p></strong></p></strong></p></strong></p></strong></p></strong></p></strong></p>