On my walk to school today, I noticed that my bank was closed. This was unusual, because it’s not a holiday by any means and there were no announced strikes. Upon further inspection, I learned that my bank will be closed until September 2nd. There are other branches of this bank, but the way my bank works is that I can withdraw money from other branches ATM’s, but my account is with the Convention branch, so I can’t transfer money between accounts or anything. I wonder if automatic withdrawals are still okay…I may need to check and see if my rent got paid. This may pose a problem. In the US, this would never happen, and if it did, a mailing or seven would have been sent out months ago alerting customers of the change. Not in France. Bonnes vacances Société Générale!