Wednesday (today) is the traditional day of the Banker's and Butcher's dinner (lunch for city folk.) The meal is served in the board room of Citizens State Bank, Sinai. Twice this summer bankers have rescued me when I was stranded in the field. That's the least of the extra miles they go. When a customer called asking for a wet vacuum from a problem at the home, two bankers showed up at the customers house to help with the water problem. One elderly bachelor would come to the bank in the morning and a teller would administer his eye drops. The same teller took his jacket home, replaced a zipper in it and patched a hole. When there was a cafe in town bank employees would bring meals from the cafe to a shut-in. A bachelor had surgery for hammer toes. He didn't want to pay a doctor to take out the wires in his toes so a banker did it.
The saddest story was of a customer who asked in the bank for a ride to Brookings, about fifteen miles away. The banker was going and gave the customer a ride to a medical clinic. When the banker returned to the clinic he found that the customer had died.
This is what could be called a full service bank!
Takk for alt,
Al
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