Have a look at this snapshot of my Nationwide Building Society’s online statement: I’ve blocked out the bits which don’t matter.. See anything odd? No – well, the statement was dated “Saturday 6th of December 2008”, but it’s showing a “Branch or Cash Machine Withdrawal” for £20.00 on Monday the 8th of December 2008: two days in the future!
I know I regularly withdraw £20 or £30 pounds from an ATM (Automatic Teller Machine: the proper name for cash machines/hole in the wall machines) on a Monday, but isn’t Nationwide being a bit presumptuous in thinking that I’ll do the same again this coming Monday? Or have they just invented a time machine so they can ensure that they know what the financial markets are going to be like in the future…