My opening at our Annual Meeting...

Years ago when I was in charge of planning and running an annual meeting for a local BANK, actually it was here…and we were all wearing cowboy hats…but that’s a story for another time…I was a bit nervous about speaking in front of the group so I asked a seasoned veteran of the podium, who was there that night how he does it with such ease and confidence. His reply, “Well Chris, I start with a joke, usually a bad joke…that way anything I say afterward will sound intelligent.”

So, thanks to Rod, here’s your humor for the evening:

A quick summation of the country we live in and the credit union you bank at:

• Only in America......can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance.

• Only at a credit union can a teller answer the phone and know who you are by the way you say hello.

• Only in America......are there handicap parking places in front of rollerskating rinks.

• Only at a credit union do we ask how your grandchildren did in last week’s basketball game and THEN ask how we can serve you today.

• Only in America......do drugstores make sick people walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions, while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front counter.

• Only at the credit union do we invite the entire population of Wayne County to a picnic each summer, just so we can say HI and cook a few hundred hot dogs.

• Only in America......do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and put our useless junk in the garage. -------I am so very guilty of that one.

• Only at a BANK do they leave both doors open and then chain the pens to the counters. PLEASE NOTE OUR PENS ARE INTENDED TO BE TAKEN at the credit union!

• Only in America......do we use answering machines to screen calls and then have call waiting so we won't miss a call from someone we didn't want to talk to in the first place.

• Only at the credit union can we come up with a way to help you get rid of old documents securely, save 10 trees AND help feed Wayne County’s hungry all in ONE EVENT! Our Shredding Hunger event did all of that and more!