[JeffStewart]

My wife's got a British bank account or two and I'm pretty sure she could never find a way to check her balance. Never signed up for internet banking either, so she had to rely on her mother back in England (who's co-signed to the account) to check for her.

I seem to recall her having to ask her mother how much money was in the account before going to draw some out, because if she took too much the account would be overdrawn.