You wouldn't be collecting your check, you'd be cutting your losses.
As usual, you're wrong. As usual, you missed the point.
If I had bought AT&T when it first went public, I'd be rich now. I don't have a dividend check, because I didn't buy it. Cold Heat claims that Terri would have signed away her life, and that's as good as if she actually had signed away her life. If that's true, then the fact that I would have bought stock is as good as if I actually had bought stock. I want my dividend check.