Banking

So service here is a little different. In my latest mini misadventure I try and change some money at the State Bank of Hyderabad. Starting well, I get directed to international banking and look lost until a guy gives me a sign to wait... eventually I get directed to a seat, but after one look at the British pounds the man walks off (I later figure to lunch) without saying a word. I sit myself comfortably and begin the waiting, slowly the staff disappear. I see a cluster of them sitting down to eat at a desk nearby. Patience my young...
After lunch the foreign exchange guy returns, and serves myself and another customer in parallel, but more than twice as slowly, as is the custom here. The odd glance at some forms, no words. After some more form exchange, and token exchange, I get directed to the money counter. Again one person serves two separate windows at the same time. I miss Kerala and the State bank of Travancore. Smiles in every direction and heads wobbling like floating coconuts! Here nobody smiles