Stop Checking!
June 26th, 2007 at 12:24 pm by Monty HazeltrigTags: anachronisms, humor, luddites, men, sarcasm, women
There are two types of people who write checks at the counter these days:
- Construction workers who have gigantic checks often in gigantic books
- Old ladies with gigantic purses
I will allow for the former, but the later is making me crazy. This is 2007! Why are you still writing checks? Men don’t write checks because we don’t carry around a piece of luggage to hold the damned things. And we don’t enjoy writing in cursive. I think this may be part of the issue. Women enjoy writing in cursive.
And I think it may be a class of people who have more time than anything. That’s the only explanation for not just the ungodly slow check writing process, but also for the makes-me-want-to-strangle-them act of waiting until they get a total to pull out the billy club of a wallet and start actually putting pen to paper! They live in a world where time is not an issue. A land that time forgot.
I know this rant will have no impact because the Luddites that still write checks are not on the freakin’ internet reading blogs. If they have a computer, it is collecting dust in the other room after they got online and clicked where they should not have and now when they turn it on they immediately get 25 porn pop-ups.
I swear, last time I was behind one of these old ladies I nearly grabbed her checkbook and ripped it to shreds and screamed “use the freakin’ card they sent you slow ass bitch!”
June 26th, 2007 at 12:53pm
Damn buddy! I can imagine your pain, but honestly, at least they know how to write checks. You do not want to be stuck behind them trying to run their own card, sliding it through upside down, asking the cashier what PIN means, having to have the cashier come around and do it for them.
June 26th, 2007 at 1:21pm
I still right checks on occassion at Weigel’s just to piss the guy behind me off. OH CRAP! I’m so sorry brother, I’ll knock that crap off!
June 26th, 2007 at 4:02pm
Why check? One word: memo.
It’s my only source to stick it to the man.
June 27th, 2007 at 5:08pm
okay…offense taken…i still write checks at the grocery…i do have it made out ready to pop in the amount at the end…but i write a check…not only that, i am not an old lady, i do have a computer, and obviously i read blogs.
step off…it’s not illegal to write a check…and maybe you need to learn to relax.
June 29th, 2007 at 4:35am
Dame… You can write all over the back of your check-out receipt, take it home and enter it in Quicken, file it in dated order and staple it to your bank statement, and we can all still get out of the check-out line before arthritis sets in.
Kris… The hallmark of a most-excellent blog is that the blogger takes a stand. A pleasant, wishy-washy relaxed blog is really not worth reading.
Monty… You’re my hero, Dude! (That one’s for Zacque)