Paging Dr Conman
When I was opening my first student account I got the one which had either fifty quid or a free pager. Being a knob I wanted the free pager as this was the age when mobile phones cost hundreds of pounds and looked like house bricks. I was keen to be kept constantly up to date with the exploits of my 'crew' so we all got the pagers.

Mine didn't arrive within 14 seconds like I wanted it to, so I phoned the bank and went ape shit. I had already missed a pager bat signal about a party full of booze and naive 16 year olds and wasn't about to miss out again.

They apologised and sent another one out. Two days later another arrived, so I have two pagers. The next day I get a phone call from the bank which begins 'Did you phone up about a free pager?'. 'Shit!' I thought 'I'll have to send one back'. 'Yes that was me' I began.

He interrupted with 'I'm terribly sorry but we've run out of pagers, would it be alright to have the £50 instead?'. I paused, not believing my luck, and he took this as a sign of displeasure and jumped back in. 'Again, we must apologise, we will also credit your account with another £50 to make up for the inconvenience.

'Fine!' I managed to squeak, and the next day I am in the enviable position of having two pagers and a hundred quid. Two days later, and the postbox rattle. Yep, it's another pager.
I sold the two spares for £30 each and the haul of £160 kept me in John Smiths until February.
(doubles, Fri 19 Oct 2007, 15:50, closed)

Why...
Why doesn't this stuff ever happen to me? My one bonus from getting a student account was the sheer patheticness of 0.5% per year interest...
(Lorelei needs to remember that it's sock first, then shoe., Fri 19 Oct 2007, 22:40, )