31 aug 05
I did a truly heinous thing today: I wrote a check.
Okay, on rare occasions I do write checks: for rent, for piano lessons. But I never write checks when I am buying things, like at Target or the grocery store. When I’m in a checkout lane, I’m interested in efficiency, and check writing is about as inefficient as you can get. (Yes, if you are in line in front of me and are writing a check, you are ANNOYING THE HELL OUT OF ME. But I’d never say anything about it.)
Anyway, our new “thing” at work is smoothies, so this morning I turned over my check card to the smoothie runners for my slim-n-trim-orange-vanilla delight. Apparently it never got back to me. I had a small heart attack when I opened up my wallet this evening to find it was not there.
I had to get a couple of things at Target, which seemed ridiculous to charge, so I broke down and wrote a check. I guess I should scrounge up my dusty check register and write it down.
SAFFE / 01 sep 2005 / 3:16 p.m.
I’m always asking for recipts everytime I purchased something (food, clothes, etc) and when I arrive at home I scribble it down in my accounts book :)
alexis / 01 sep 2005 / 12:44 p.m.
i DO NOT miss the days when every other person in line was paying with a check.
i especially loved the ones who wrote everything out, when they could just have the cashier print both sides for them in like 2 seconds.