Banks don't care who, if anyone, signed a check or what the date on it is.
Mom! Dead people are talking to you. Do the math!
Buffy ,'Showtime'
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Ginger - Jun 23, 2011 12:50:11 pm PDT #13978 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Strix - Jun 23, 2011 12:50:46 pm PDT #13979 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
That...offends my worldview!
Ginger - Jun 23, 2011 12:54:02 pm PDT #13980 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
That...offends my worldview!
Banks are evil incarnate.
Vortex - Jun 23, 2011 12:54:50 pm PDT #13981 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Erin, I was so indignant on the phone with the bank, I can't even tell you. She said "but, it was a legitimate check, so I don't know why you're upset." She did not understand the concept of principle.
Ginger - Jun 23, 2011 12:56:26 pm PDT #13982 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
She did not understand the concept of principle.
If banks understood that, we would not have had the subprime loan disaster.
Amy - Jun 23, 2011 12:57:33 pm PDT #13983 of 30001
Because books.
My FiL's bank once tried to process an old check that had been stolen, and was my MiL's. She'd been dead more than five years and taken off the account. And the person who stole it signed HER NAME.
flea - Jun 23, 2011 12:58:33 pm PDT #13984 of 30001
information libertarian
There's a passage in a nonfiction work by Madeleine L'Engle in which she is indignant with the bank about this very issue, and then gets creative, and starts signing her checks "Emily Dickinson," or "Louisa May Alcott," and keeping the cancelled checks they duly processed (this was in the 1980s I think, when they still sent you cancelled checks.)
§ ita § - Jun 23, 2011 1:12:48 pm PDT #13985 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
If banks understood that, we would not have had the subprime loan disaster.
I'm sorry about that, by the way. I manage to feel partially responsible.
Wow. I just had a regulation-loaded meeting. Who works in an unregulated industry? I haven't, for a long time.
Jesse - Jun 23, 2011 1:17:05 pm PDT #13986 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Banks don't care who, if anyone, signed a check or what the date on it is.
Yeah, I meant to mention about "backdating" checks being meaningless.
Sophia Brooks - Jun 23, 2011 1:20:15 pm PDT #13987 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Banks don't care who, if anyone, signed a check or what the date on it is.
When I was in high school and working at the grocery store I got in SO MUCH trouble for accidentally accepting a check made out to the "department store" next door.
I actually had to go over to the store, and have them give me cash for the check made out to them.
It was a small town, though, so the bank at the time probably would not have accepted it, since they knew us!
Also, WRT banks and regulation-- I can't believe that there are lower middle class people who still think regulation is bad!!! And Obama tanked the economy! I want to stay in my liberal bubble.