Thursday, May 1, 2008

#36 Tuesday, April 29th, 2008: Garda

My plan was to withdraw money from the Dunboyne bank and then go to Ireland National Museum. I went to the bank and waited in line. Dunboyne is a small town with only 5,000 people meaning that everyone knows everybody. The lady apparently knew the banking accountant and talked to her for 8 minutes. Then when it was my turn the accountant said that I needed to withdraw money from her coworker. Her coworker was chatting with a customer. Great...
I missed my bus and the next one was not until an hour and a half. Then I would only have a few hours at the museum. I decided to skip getting money from Dunboyne Bank and head to the biggest mall in Ireland. I take the 270 to the mall.
I get to a bank at the mall and wait ten minutes. Get to an accountant and he says that I need to use the machine outside. Wait 5 minutes and I put my card in the machine. The machine said ALERT! At that I quickly removed my card. The machine said it was going to shut down but before doing that it said that it was going to call Garda.
Garda is the fuzz. The 5-0. The cops.
Not the best day.
Useful information: The Irish Flag
The green represents the Catholics and the orange represents the Protestants. The white represents the peace between the two religions.

4 comments:

Trish said...

Frustrating! Today is the Star Awards and we are so honored that you were chosen for a second year!

Mom

Unknown said...

Star Award? Cool, star of what?

Laine, you are the star of police nicknames. So did the Garda help you at the ATM? How did the story end? What is the big ole mall like? Is there Spencers and Hot Topic? I hope so.

Ryan

Unknown said...

by the way, the pictures of the family are perfect. Super helpful in imagining your hosts, too!
Ryan

Laine Mines said...

I didn't stick around but I don't believe they came because I was in that general area for the next 15 minutes. Blanchardstown Shopping Centre does not have a Hot Topic or a Spencers. If they have any American wee ole shoppes there are few.
My family was always getting confused on whose who so I decided to make the Intro blog.