I was shocked to see that 3 weeks have slipped by since my last post. Our house has become a maze of boxes as we pack, waiting for that elusive moving date. One delay has piled onto another (will we ever understand how everything is supposed to work here?). But keeping our eyes and ears tuned to our Good Shepherd is faith building.
The headlines here in France have been blazing with a story that has made me chuckle out-loud. No, not Sarkozy and his heiress/model/popstar girlfriend. Societé Génerale, the bank that sifts through all their accounts, down to the most meager accounts in order to prevent and extract any undesirables, is enduring a scandal of global proportions. If you recall, our bank closed our account with no warning or explanation a couple of months ago. The explanation we finally received is that we were suspected of money laundering because every few weeks we deposited cash into our account. (to pay for things like rent, utilities, phone--shocking!) They were very keen to keep riff-raff like us out of their bank. Now it has been revealed that one of their young employees managed to play with 20 billion euros more than the entire worth of the bank and lost 5 billion euros (more than $7 billion). Well, at least they don't have to worry about us ripping them off.
Handsome Hubby has pointed out that it would be wrong to rejoice in the afflictions of others. He is so right.
I'm sorry, Societé Génerale for laughing.
3 comments:
On moving... one can never have too many boxes with which to pack. Uniformity in size is helpful in loading the truck. Having 20 or so people to move the boxes is REAAALLLYYY helpful. Hope this helps!
Is it appropriate for me to laugh at you?
Since I learned that this was your former bank, I read the Societe Generale saga with a bit more pleasure. I'm sure Mark is right, this is not a good thing.But in these troubled times, certain pleasures are found!
I'll laugh for you ..... Don
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