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OK I can’t help myself.

Who in the **** under 60 writes a check for something smaller than say a car payment?

Your real malfunction is carrying a checkbook around like some sort of financial caveman.

Apple/Samsung pay that **** next time like an adult that doesn’t qualify for assisted living.

Better?

If life doesn't give you lemons, steal a lemon tree.

You made a bit of a leap there, I sure ain't no Luddite. I'm probably too obsessed with technology. Some credentials, without sounding too gay (the bad gay, not the good gay):

- First to remove my fax number from my business card (many years ago)

- Sold my entire CD collection at least 5 years ago

- Have written fewer checks than I bet about anyone over last 5 years

- Haven't been to cash machine to withdraw money in maybe 2 years

- Pay cash, for anything, maybe once every few months

- Go to my mail box only to clean it out for the mailman, once a week

- Was onboard with apple pay, via my watch, the day it was available. Interestingly, it turns out to be slightly less convenient than using cc's. Gave up on it as old school, couple years ago. But you go, girl.

- What's a DVD?

- What's a thumb drive?

- As part of some home DIY, I have removed every coax cable in the house, except one going to wifi, and one to the satellite dish.

- Haven't had a telephone landline since 2005 (I think it was)

- Bought a DLP rear projection HD TV in 2006, put up a 25' mast with HD antenna, and had HD in my house. HD wasn't yet available over cable, or very few channels if I recall.

So nope, I ain't no Luddite. I'm sorry for this post, turns out it is kinda gay. The bad gay.

Larry is right your posting is amazing.

I’m not sure OOT deserves you, Sparks.

My post sure as hell was not worthy of this reply

I've written one check in my life and it was 14 years ago.

Edit:It was also a temporary check and the easiest way to take out a bunch of cash from my account. May have had to do with being 16 or something dumb at the time, don't totally remember.

I think you can buy a pallet of Luddite at Costco, but you have to use a credit card.

Someone that intends to stop payment and in effect steal something.

#1: "the bad gay" as an undertitle for Sparks please and thank you.
#2: I am surprised Larry Legend doesn't own his abode. He must live in a major metropolitan area.

seemed pretty obvious to me that he doesn't care a checkbook with him but used it just for this play. come on guys :facepalm:

So writing a check was a premeditated act to steal and commit bank fraud.

When I managed a Dairy Queen we had dregs pull this move all the time. What really sucks is the bank charges you $35 for trying to cash the check in addition to not giving you the money. So like, Daddy dreg brings his mulleted spawn in for large blizzards and writes a check for $28, then stops payment on the check. You not only don't get the $28, the bank charges you $35 for trying to cash it. This ldo infuriated the owner who would insist that i fill out a police report each time it happened, but the police basically do nothing unless you're selling drugs or something. Then they use it as a reason to arrest you and search your property.

This whole sequence is a chicken **** move.

*Window-shopped at the local mom & pop place
*Ordered online to save money
*Got told to go **** yourself and had no recourse against the internet dude
*Took your revenge on the local mom & pop place

You suck. Granted not following through with a call is bad, that you even remembered a week later you'd left your number is weird. It's definitely not "I am justified in stealing $105 from you!" bad. I hope they put up a "Don't accept cheques from this thief" sign.

Also, if I had two trees die in the same spot I'd probably get the soil tested.

All of what Holliday said. Plus, when you talk about the disappointment of "never getting the satisfaction" of talking to the manager, you sound like some lovelorn neckbeard talking about how you "deserve closure" when the girl you talked to on AIM for ten minutes stops responding.

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LOL at Dairy Queen accepting checks

I've had a rough ten years myself. I could tell some stories. This happens to most people every week. The things is, when something goes really well, you usually don't hear about the good fortune of people who catch a lucky break in their every day dealings.

They probably don't cash them any more. Seems it would be one of the highest risk checks out there..haha. Maybe in a small town it would be fine, as some of the old timers are pretty stuck in their ways. Most people looking to write a small check now, for items like at Dairy Queen, are of the high risk variety.

When I see someone writing a check at the grocery store, I just assume it is because they have no money in their account.

re-read: So you were already buying the replacement tree, went home and planted it, but the problem is that you weren't able to "tell the manager your story" and "vent"? The story doesn't seem that complicated; you planted a tree and it didn't survive transport. And i guess the venting would be "and gosh that's frustrating!".

Wouldn't work at any stores around here. Everywhere is going to e-checks now. They process like a debit transaction so if your account is empty, the check is denied.

Still though, **** check writing olds