Posted on 05/02/2026 11:31:04 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
It struck me earlier today that I have NOT written a regular check in years. Yes, I have written a few bank checks but as far as personal checks I can't think of any that I have written any in at least 5 and more likely 10 or more years. At one time in my life and in the lives of many others, writing checks were a frequent activity. However, after the onset of the Internet and doing transactions over the web my check writing activities dwindled further and further until it has reached ZERO except for the few times I needed to write bank checks for the transferal of larger than normal funds.
So WHEN was the last time you wrote a regular check? And are there people here who still write checks frequently? I can't even remember the last time I wrote a regular check and it could have been as long ago as 20 or 25 years.
Several times a week.
DITTO - can’t be any more annoying for others than trying to shop while people are on their phones or walking in front of your car in the parking lot.
I think 3 times—and I’m a Luddite.
Why? The online site said “Have your forgotten your password?” Then wouldn’t accept any in my tattered sheet of various usernames and passwords for book sellers, seldom used accounts and so on.
Then, annoyingly, “You cannot make a new account as you already have an account.” Then back to not acceptable password or username for the existing account. Denied access.
A paradoxical trap.
So wrote a check.
“I am a dinosaur in these things.”
Me too! We’re in agreement in other things here today.
Hope you're not a sorcerer. 🧹🌌☁️🌟
Yesterday, when I payed my rent.
I get my checkbook out and write name/date on check and check # in check register before I get to the checkout line at the grocery store; fold the pen in the checkbook and start unloading - always have help with that and to the car.
Today. I paid my subcontractor.
Last week. I sent a donation to my old rugby club.
I pay all of my utilities via check. Reliable and waaaay safer than any payment via the WWW. Any WWW payment scheme either feeds orgs I loathe (e.g., PayPal) or depends on too many middle-men, any of which is quite willing to sell all data. Tens of millions of accounts have been compromised in that manner.
I do that with all of my bills except my car insurance.
NOW you’re talking about REALLY irritating. Nothing worse... You need X number of lower case letters, X number of numerals, X number of upper case letters - START OVER....Even if you made up the most preposterous password you could ever think of, you would be told, it’s already in USE! Another example is portals for medical doctors....Some I just refuse to set up because of the aggravation of doing so.
I sometimes pay my landscaper with a check. Like yesterday. And use a check for tithe.
Wrote a check this morning. Farm account has a debit card so if I use that, which I do a lot for small and online purchases, the money comes out of my checking account immediately anyway. For some local vendors I write checks, especially for larger purchases, which saves ‘em a couple percent by avoiding the CC charge.
Right there with you. My experience with this ‘new’ world is that much is different, but little is better. And much is quite worse. For example, my city just installed “New! Improved!” parking meters downtown. Or rather, they removed them all, and put a single kiosk on each block. One must park, find the nearest kiosk, input one’s license plate number, select an amount of time, and then pay using credit card or use an app, that adds a small fee for the privilege. . The process takes from 30 seconds to two or so minutes, depending, and usually requires that one after leaving one’s car, must counterintuitively head the opposite direction from their destination in order to use a kiosk. The process, when we had meters, took perhaps five seconds. And nobody had to know where my car was on what date at which time for how long. The younger crowd loves using the app on their phone to pay (which shoots a percentage to the company that managed to sell the City on this terrible idea...). Fools. Downtown merchants are uniformly reporting a 25% drop in sales.
Although I didn’t see any X-Files episodes when first run, the annoyingly titled one “Rm9sbG93ZXJz” (Season 11, Episode 7 in 2018 is exactly why I am right in being anti-tech.
Everyone should watch it before saying AI is just a tool so don’t worry. Drones (in 2018); refusal to admit AI is wrong on Scully’s home town and other anti-fraud data; turning on gas to kill her as all doors and windows are sealed to “protect” the occupant. Ahead of its time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2GuGMn7n04
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cosqCKuhAI
Oh now that’s just cruel...so it was you? lol
April 14, 2026...
Wrote a $7 check for state tax owed...
Last week.
I was down to one check. NC DEPT of Rev (cause it take 10 days to do it online). One quarter, 4 mo after due date they said they never got it. Two weeks later the Raleigh PD called and provided a copy of the ‘check washed’ version. NC DOR changed to some John Doe, and $650 changed to $5650. Such s piss poor job the bank wouldn’t cash it. I NEVER put one in my mailbox. Even when in the Post office hands (direct drop off) they had an inside the PO check washing gang. NO CHECK, IS SAFE. Even direct into the PO.
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