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Show CASHING CHECKS IN GERMANY Customers Hang Up Hats and Sticks and Then Prepare for Close Examination. Bank etiquette In Germany Is unique. In one great Hanover bank I watched the customers. First they walked to v T the center of the big marble lobby and hung up their hats and sticks Just as you would do here on entering a hotel dining room. You soon understand why they strip for action when you sea what an exhaustive test of endurance It is to get a check cashed. You pass it in nt one window; clerks gather, whisper, study the check, telephone upstairs, make notes on Its margin doubtfully. "Augenblick 1" they Anally tell you which means wait an eye-wink. eye-wink. You wait Others crowd about the window. Finally you, too, hang up your hat und coat and sit down to look at a picture book on the reading table In thA Inhhv Tf vnn trfnnra nri and. denly, maybe you cotch a bunch, of clerks whispering together, looking at you suspiciously. Finally, If you're lucky, you heur your name shouted, and at another window a pile of marks Is pushed out. Every deposit account here has a number, and this number must show on your check. Some firms even print their oflicial bank account number oa their letterheads. Saturday Evening Post |
