MONEY FOR YOUR MONEY PLEASE

Is it me or is having to pay to withdraw your own money like the cheekiest thing you've ever heard? Well it's the cheekiest thing i've ever heard; and it's becoming a more and more common pain in my wallet. The first time i saw one of these cash machines warn of a withdrawal charge the pain and anger almost flipped me out. I had become a fully fledged member of the 'this country is going to the dogs' brigade. Whilst these machines were quite uncommon in charging for their supposed service of convenience, i just knew we would see more and more of them being introduced. Unfortunately i was right, and now, in the 'poor student' area of Shelton where i live there are 5 'rip off' machines to 1 'free' to withdraw machine. This 'free' machine is situated on Staffordshire university campus, and as you can see from the pictures below it is often 'out of order' presumably due to access use. To wrap this shambolic situation up you can expect to be charged £1.50 - £1.85 for the privilege of your own money and if like me you normally take out a tenner that's a minimum of 15% charge on your money. For this reason, when i have to use these demonic machines i instead withdraw £3o-£40 to shorten the service charge to the lowest percentage possible. This is bad for me as in the morning not only do i have to carry around a banging headache but also the knowledge and guilt of spending £40 on a night out i would usually only spend a tenner, because let's face it, in today's world you aint bringing home change regardless of how much you go out with.