“Get out of here” The banker screamed, when the beggar came in.
“Why” Asked the beggar.
“Because you’re beggar” The banker says
“Of course I’m one” The beggar said.
“Then go”
“No”
“Do you want me to call the police” The banker shouts.
“No, I want to open an account”
“Don’t talk nonsense, you’re beggar”
“I know, but I still want to open account”
“You’re a beggar and you cannot possibly have anything”
“You'r wrong I would not say that, I have enough to open account”
“How much?”
The beggar shows him a Rs 100 note.
“Where did you get that?
“Someone gave it to me”
“Who?”
“I don’t know?”
“you don’t?
“Yes”
“Someone gave you money for what?”
“nothing”
“Why? Why would any one give you money for nothing?”
“Because…I’m…a…beggar?”
“I knew what you’ll say that. You really want to open account?”
“yes”
“Well, sit down, you will have to answer some questions”
“Ok, ask them”
“Where did you get money from”
“From begging”
“Do you have any documentary proof that you got this money from begging?”
“No”
“Why, not?”
“ Because I’m a beggar”
“That does not mean, you should not have any proof”
“I can’t give you any”
“Then go away, get lost, disappear”
“Why?”
“I told you”
“Fine I’ going to the next bank”
“No bank will take your money”
“Yes it will”
“No it won’t”
“I know all banks over here won’t let save money because of the State Bank of
“Then why did you bother me, by coming here?”
“Just to check for the last time before I go the bank where all the members of my community have been saving their money”
“Which bank?”
“A bank, which is abroad but will let me save money from here , without expecting to travel and I will be not required to answer stupid questions, all the beggars have done the same, Now I will be joining them”
“Why didn’t you just go there, instead of bothering me?”
“Because I had to win a bet. Thanks to your and others just like you, I have lost it”
“What was the bet about?”
“ I said I would be able save money in your bank and they said that I would never would be and they were right?”
“All this was about some silly bet?”
“Yes”
“You were bothering me all this time over it”
“Ye, but not any more”
“Stop”
“Why”
“ I want to know something”
“What do you want to know?”
“The bank your going to must be very poor and desperate!”
“No, it isn’t”
“No?”
“Yes”.
“How”
“I believe it is because it doesn’t ask questions, it has been serving all the members of my community for a very long time”
“You know what the rules are, over here”
“Those rules stink because of that poor people can’t save anything. Thankfully though they never they never forget to give me somehing”
“Thankyou, I’ve made up mind –I’m resigning!”
“Resigning! why?”
“Because I have sold some property and I didn’t want anyone to know anyone to know how much I made from the sale Someone deposited several crores in my bank and gave all the information, a few days later his family was kidnapped he had to withdrew all the money from the bank in order pay the ransom the kidnapper had ask for. I don’t want to get into that kind of trouble”
‘You’re realising this now! Your bank is not allowed to keeps secrets, provides details of every account to all kinds of people, particularly the kidnappers who are friends of the State Bank”
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