Man Goes To SBI London Branch, Finds It Shut For Lunch Break; Netizens Can't Stop Joking About It

If there is one bank which forms the bulk of memes on the internet, it is the State Bank of India (SBI). You are bound to find a meme somewhere on any social media platform about the bank and/or its services.

Getting anything done in a public sector bank in India is nothing short of a hassle. But this Indian multinational public sector bank is infamous for persistently asking its customers to get all their queries and issues solved only after the lunch hour.

Tweet on SBI London viral??

While we thought this might be just a pan-India phenomenon turns out that we were wrong. Twitter user Abhay (@dammitabaiall)?shared a picture of an SBI branch in London. It turns out that the branch was shut at 12:30 in the afternoon for its lunch hour.

The young man who is studying at King’s College London was at a local SBI branch for some work and was left in disbelief seeing it closed during banking hours.

“Not the SBI in London shut at 1230 in the afternoon (lunch hour),” he tweeted with a picture of the building. In a subsequent tweet, he sarcastically added: “Currently feeling very represented”.?

Twitter on fire

The tweet created a buzz on the social media platform, getting attention from many desi folks around the country, who joined the conversation by quoting Amitabh Bachchan’s iconic line from Mohabbatein, “Parampara. Pratishtha. Anushasan.”

The laughing fest continues...

Many said, nothing wrong in it

And even though jokes continued, many said there is nothing wrong in taking a lunch break and even people working in banks are humans who deserve to eat without being stuck to their desks.

Many highlighted that lunch breaks are common in banks even in foreign countries, but the only problem is sometimes it gets dragged far beyond the stipulated time.