God-damned $4 check
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Yeah, kitt finished writing this at 19:13 on 23 April 2009
I went to the bank today to deposit a group of checks. My bank was recently the victim of a crappy merger, with everybody knowing how much I despise my new bank, so I'm even less interested in actually going to the bank than I was before.
So, off I go.
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you have no idea
how glad you should be that you're NOT in Argentina. I could go on and on, but I'll just say the banking trust and general efficiency here don't really exist. It's insane.
that's what ATMs are for
Martha and I got several Wedding present checks made out to "Mikael and Martha Arneborn". When there are two names on a check both people have to endorse the check. Unfortunately we don't know anyone named "Martha Arneborn", so Martha signed her This, according to the teller at the bank, meant that he couldn't take them. His suggestion was to deposit the check through an ATM. Whomever looked at them then would probably decide it was easier to accept the check than return them. Our big quandary was, should we deposit all the checks at once and have a small chance of having them all rejected or deposit them separately and have a larger chance of having 1 or 2 rejected. The prior was successful
I did the same thing with a check that was over a year old from my health care provider. To make that even better, the HCP had changed it's name in the meantime.
Actually, I did this.
And the asshole who returned the check WROTE ON IT with BIG CIRCLES around the date.
I'm sure said asshole's name is James, btw.
I've been looking at smaller banks. I tell you, there are LOTS in the Midwest to choose among. There are like four in California, as near as I can tell, all sucky.
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