In “the old days” when someone’s bank was not some giant corporation but more of a “local” bank, where the customers and bank employees knew each other by name, someone would have strongly questioned the old woman and spoken to her daughter.
Living in the age of the “impersonal” community, everyone is an island and has little personal knowledge or contact with either the business people they deal with or conversely the customers they deal with, and as “autonomous” individuals it is “rude” to dare question someone’s actions.
But I am sure when I was a small child my grandmother’s local bank would have strongly questioned such transactions from her and called my mom.
Exactly.