Banks: senior citizens.

IN view of the ongoing pandemic, and being more vulnerable on account of being a senior citizen, I have restricted myself to my home and usually take advantage of digital banking for monetary transactions.

However, on April 16, I had to deposit a cheque in a branch of a foreign bank situated in the F-7 supermarket. In order to minimise the exposure while visiting the bank, I filled in the deposit slip at home.

When I went to deposit the cheque in the priority section of the bank, I was taken aback when the gentleman refused to deposit the same on the plea that the deposit slip was an old one, and told me that I needed to fill in the new one. So the deposit of the cheque which should not...