Originally Posted by Paul Markham

Haven't used my credit card for years. They keep raising the limit though. LOL



When they took down the Iron Curtain here, they gave out credit cards like sweets. People ran up bills they couldn't pay back and it caused a lot of problems.

Don't know if it's changed but it used to be. If you want a $10,000 limit on your credit card you had to have $10,000 in your bank account. If it dropped below that the card was frozen. Could never figure that one out.

This was explained to me by our first bank manager here.

He also told me why it took so long to clear a check. The check had to go back to the issuing bank so they could check the signature. They had no fucking idea.