Student days
I remember when I was as uni I had a mate who was really hitting the overdraft hard.
We were all in the mood for a good piss up and he decided he would yet again try and extend his overdraft.
The three of us walk into the bank and he goes up to the counter. He hands over his card and the teller pops into the back. Thirty seconds later there's a cloud of dust where Stuart used to be.
We finally locate him about 100 meters from the bank. Apparantly what had happened was that when the woman went off he noticed a piece of paper with his name and card number and a note saying that if he came into the bank he was to be stalled and the branch manager called.
( riverghost servicing your mum since, Wed 22 Jul 2009, 9:44, 2 replies)

When I was a student
we cashed rubber cheques at Morrison's cashier desk (the queue was some times yards long) and made new phone cards out of two used ones, some scissors and a roll of sellotape.

(oh and you could get pissed on the fiver you took out of the ATM once a week)
( buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Wed 22 Jul 2009, 10:00, closed)

I ran up a huge debt from living off my credit card using my local coop.
They had the old click clunk machine so there was no balance check. I then used my grant money on getting pissed.
We also used to use a butter knife to crank up our electricity meter. By putting it in the coin slot we were able to rotate the cog that turned when you inserted a coin and turned the dial.
We also had a TV that predicted the weather far better than the weather report.
If it was going to rain we stopped receiving BBC 2.
( riverghost servicing your mum since, Wed 22 Jul 2009, 10:58, closed)