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Pettah ATM queue at opening — wait this machine or walk to Galle Face Green

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Kasper Holm•141 rep

Notes are thin at Pettah. Line already at 8. Card still works at the guesthouse but we need cash for tuks and fruit. 26 Aug pin.

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Walk to Galle Face Green first if this queue is a tourist pile. Pettah ATMs run out when everyone thinks the same. If both fail, town side, not a cousin with a POS. Do not invent a cash shutdown. It is queues.

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Lahiru Wijesinghe•241 rep

Galle Face Green had notes. This door was a tourist pile. Fine.

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Tharindu Weerasinghe•187 rep

Kids: one adult queues, the rest sit in shade. Pride tries three machines and melts.

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Nadee Jayasuriya•202 rep

Screenshot the balance. A failed swipe still counts on some cards.

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Isuru Samarakoon•217 rep

If you need a lump, do it in town, not only at Pettah.

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Asela Nadarajah•232 rep

We took the quieter fork on this: Pettah ATM. Fine. No one clapped.

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Fathima Cassim•247 rep

Ask the guard which machine actually paid this morning, not a blog.

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Saskia Voss•121 rep

Do not pay anyone to 'hold' your place in an ATM line.

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