If you've got a problem with me, take a ticket and get in line, cos its long!

A recent article in the Bali Sun made me laugh. As many people will already know, banks in Bali mostly ask customers to take a ticket when waiting for service, one of the banks I have used with this system is the BCA main bank on Jl Raya Kuta. According to the article, enterprising youths go in early and take many tickets, then sell them to people for 5,000rp. If you don't want to pay you'll be waiting all day!

As we all know everything in Bali gets screwed for money. The guys at the petrol pump try it on (they don't reset the pump from the last customer and when you hand them 50,000rp you get 20,000rp worth of petrol), taxi drivers never have change and shop assistants aren't afraid to set their own prices, keeping the extra margin. Obviously the bank employees are the ones who take the early morning tickets and get their relatives to flog them to the customers. Its part of the Bali economic landscape, the writing is on the wall and its something we have to deal with.