(We wrote part one a week ago)
Martin has since spoken to the bank manager twice about the missing joint credit card; once face to face and once on the phone. The clerk involved has made another visit to the flat and requested another piece of paper and will make yet another visit to collect same when we have it. We haven’t had any of the phone calls yet. Nobody can speed the system up.
In India, it seems, the replacing of lost documents, credit cards, etc. is an even longer-winded and painful exercise than obtaining the original.
(Vision of armies of ‘lost document’ clerks trying to get copies of documents they themselves have lost from another army of ‘lost documents lost by lost-document clerks’ and so on ad infinitum.)
