Scottish Money in England

[+Gringo]

Never had any real problems myself. I've even used Scottish notes in my local pub. The only one niggle I had was when I used a Scottish ?10 note for some petrol. The youth said he didn't know whether he could accept it or not (young, speckled faced, never been out of the country, type yoof he was) all I said was it's all I had as I'd just come back from Scotland and that I wasn't prepared to syphon it out of the tank!! ?10 note was then accepted without further hesitation. Mrs G has, however, had problems at the local Sainsbury's store...(which reminds me, I must go there one day, full a trolly up and use Scottish notes to pay for it. If they refuse then they will have to put all the food back)

There will be no problem with Scottish notes at any railway station. Most will accept Euro's too but the exchange rate will not be favourable!!

[Charles Bannerman]

So why do I get English notes from the cashline accross from the Sony shop in town when I use my RBoS card?

Because only machines in England are programmed to discriminate in the way which I have described.

By the way, apart from using the code 1707 to override this system and, as Spectre has reminded us, 1066 for sterling in France, everybody in Larkhall has the same PIN number - which is 1690.

[KingBeastie]

has the same PIN number - which is 1690

Reminds me of part of an Irvine Welsh novel where one of the characters gets hold of a list of names and account details from a particular branch of a bank and compares the list with that of a rangers supporters club and tries 1690 as the PIN on all the matching accounts. It works on most of them!

[caley100]

Wonder if Charles' pin code is 1746 ?

[CaleyD]

Hope not, they always say not to use your year of birth and things like that.

[PompeyCT]

Theres so much sarcasm in this topic, ive now lost the ability to tell who is serious and who isnt