You're in your favorite store of choice. You have less than five items in your possession, waiting second in line to be checked out. The guy in front of you has all of his items rung up, and the total is displayed. He reaches for his pocket. You anticipate your turn within the next few moments, when all of a sudden, the most despicable thing happens.
THE ASSHOLE PULLS OUT A FUCKING CHECKBOOK!
Okay, I'm sorry, but using checks in a store that accepts Credit/Debit is inexcusable. The reason we have check cards (debit cards with a credit card logo) now is the fact that they are safer and faster than writing a damnated check. What the hell gives people the right to waste everyone's time when it is so easily avoidable by having your bank issue you a card to use?
So, let's run down the amount of effort the cashier has to exert after your slow handwriting finishes scrawling on your decorated piece of shit rectangle. First, the cashier needs to look it over to make sure your scribbles slightly resemble the proper date, amount, and "Pay To". Next, because of all the damn fraud going around, to prove you are authorized to use the check, you need to provide your driver's license, phone number, tissue sample, urine sample, the spare tire from your vehicle, birth certificates of your children and the pedophile rapist stalking them, and a copy of the contract you made with Satan to obtain your checks in the first place. After all that retardation is written on the check, it must then pass through a machine, which reads the special numbers at the bottom to contact your bank for approval.
Oh, and let's not forget about the fuckers who think they can throw a check at you when their account balance is already less than zero. After going through all those tedious minutes of identification bullshit, it takes me all of my will power to keep myself from jumping over the counter and strangling them to death. I can only imagine that most other cashiers feel the same way.
One more thing to consider is the crap that the poor people who work at the banks have to deal with, processing all of those checks, with money coming and going to and from countless locations. Can you imagine how long it must take them to do all that manual labor when a card could have processed it all automatically?
Writing checks: the most wretched form of terrorism in the world today
Osama's got nothing on these people.
checkbook in the middle of the line. You get a receipt numb nuts! Do it at home!
Are your math skill better at a grocery store than at your home? Yet another
reason Pennsylvania won't issue me a concealed weapons permit. Posted by Minivan at 5:06am on Sep/18/2007