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.

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

Yeah, it was quite enlightening in law school to discover that it doesn't matter, legally, what name you sign when you sign a check. All that matters is that you sign it with the intention to approve the payment.

So I could sign my mortgage payments "Emily Dickinson" and it would be a cashable check. (NB: my real name is not Emily Dickinson.)

Of course, in the days of automatic electronic deductions, this is less of an issue.

NB: my real name is not Emily Dickinson.

Hmm. This could be a clue...

Banks are evil incarnate. Word. Bank of America, I'm looking at you.

Vortex, I am indignant with you. I'll sit here, clutching my naivte to my chest. I DID know about the post-dating thing, though.

ita ruined the economy. Pass it on!

Well, I do share a birthday with Emily Dickinson...

ION, I suspect the week before they're supposed to announce my position for rehiring is not the time to tell anyone I'm kind of light on work.

Pfeh.

Banks don't care who, if anyone, signed a check or what the date on it is.

Not in every circumstances. My bank was a pain in the ass about depositing checks after TCG and I were married. His name was not on the account so not only did he have to sign the checks but be there with his license to prove it was him.

I'm tired. And cranky. Person I'm sharing a hotel with let her alarm go for almost an hour this morning. Starting at 6am.

Everyone at work today was tired, cranky, and/or RILED UP. And it's going to rain for two more days! Bleh.

Timelies all!

Happy Birthday Steph!

Went to the U2 concert in Baltimore last night. Great show, but we didn't get home until 1. I ended up with less than 5 hours of sleep, and it's hitting me hard right now.

My friend went to that concert! She posted some great pix, Sheryl!