[Marshal Davout]

I was a Teller in the Banks; after I left being a Cowboy for my father ! I figure I would be out of the hot Sun and Rain and Snow !
So I was a Teller, Acting Head-Teller, and Head-Teller for various banks !
I have counted loads of Greenbacks or Bills in my time !
at one bank I had 1/2 the combination to the Vault; as I had to get money out sometimes for the other tellers.
So my character flaw; if it is one is that I am completely honest !
At one bank; we cashed a lot of Checks; so on Monday every teller would get $750,000 and we would pay it out over the course of a week !
Note that it is Impossible to double-count that much money received from the Federal reserve in a week in between customers ! We re-counted it as best we could !
Another time I ordered money from the federal reserve for my branch, like $700,000; but forgot to tell book-keeping !
This creates a loan for the bank at the federal Reserve ! So they charged the bank something like $50 for the money until they covered it !
A girl from book-keeping called me and joked where am I going to get the $50 ? Am I going to have to go out on the street and earn it ? ! Ha ! But I told her I made the mistake, just take it out of my pay !
I have lots of funny stories working at the Banks !
In a pack of $500 in old Tens; the Feds once cheated me out of $10 ! There was only $490 in the pack ! So I had to "eat" the $10 as if I had made a Teller mistake and lost $10; so I had to put it through as a "Teller Shortage", which of course the bank doesn't like, as How could you have made a $10 Mistake !
But some years later I was verifying a pack of new $10's from the federal reserve and it came out to $510 in the pack of 10's ! Now I am supposed to turn the $10 back into the fed as a mistake on their part; but remembering how they had cheated me out of $10 years before, I kept the extra $10, so my teller drawer ended up for the day $10 over; so I put it through as a "Teller Overage" as if I had cheated a customer out of $10 and so I got even with the Fed !

Another time on a Friday night , we had wall-to-wall customers and seemed like everybody was cashing checks ! This one guy wanted his balance; so I had to call down to book-keeping for it. So I told the book-keeping girl "This is General Custer and I'd like the Balance on the Indians ! ( meaning Custer's last stand where he was done in by 6,000 Sioux and other Indians at the Little Big Horn River in 1878 ! ) So she joked along with me and said OK General Custer ! What is the Indians Account number ? So I gave it to her and she gave me his balance. She must have thought it was funny; in that I was telling her we were getting over-run at the branch ! Ha !