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July 17th, 2010
A couple months back, my wife went to the bank to order checks. We didn’t think much about it after that, and her order just rested in the back of our minds. Ordering checks for your bank account isn’t the most difficult thing to do but somehow, we managed to find ourselves in a massive mess very swiftly. We simply didn’t follow up on our order and we didn’t have our comms channels with the bank open.
The quandary began when I opened the check-book to pay for tires we purchased thru our local mechanic. There were no checks. I informed the mechanic, who gets a lot of business though our poor vehicles, that I might be right back to pay him. I got home and discovered that there were no new check books to be found. I literally tore the house apart looking for the checks ordered one or two months gone.
The first thing I did was call my wife at her job. I seldom ever call her there and its generally something very important when I am doing. She guaranteed me that she went to the local branch of our bank to order checks 2 months ago. When I asked her if we had ever gotten them in the mail I was struck by silence at the other end of the phone. No, I was convinced that you were given them, she ultimately expounded after thinking about it for a little while. So I responded : Well I didnt order checks, so I wasnt attempting to find checks in the mail. You can think how embarrasing this was.
I recalled once going online to order checks, but we had just moved and I wasnt ready to make the required changes to our account details whilst I was making an attempt to order order new checks. Instead I had to go to the bank to modify the address, so I presumed it simpler if we ordered the checks there. That made perfect sense to me and on one level I was pleased that our bank was so diligent about our security. That’s when I sent my better half to the bank to place the order fro more checks. I was now starting to remember everything about the order, I just couldnt understand why the heck I didnt think to look for them. Time just passed by so speedily. The next thing I know Im facing my mechanic with an empty check-book.
I called the bank the following day and our usual teller expounded that she recollected that my spouse had come in to order checks a long time back and we definitely should have gotten them by this time, and suggested that perhaps someone had thieved them from our mailbox. Again, my imagination went wild and I began to get a little annoyed. Who on earth would take checks from a floundering, new blue collar family? We’ve got a baby and we have a mortgage. We really do not have enough funds to make swiping from us worth it. Then I heard the tellers sweet voice, Im so sorry, she claimed. I inverted one of the numbers in the account and your check order was rejected. I didnt know.
I was never so relieved to learn about a mistake in my life. We intend to now not order checks thru our bank. Instead I had found an amazing site that enable syou to order checks online in a range of designs. Rather than standing in queues to order new checks, I now simply go to my favourite site and order checks on the internet.
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