So I’m at the bank today to get a business checking account for Boheme and helpful bank employee Kevin (pronouned “Kee-vin,” the precious boy) gives me some temporary checks to tide me over until my “real” checks come in.
The scanner kind of washed it out, but can you see it? You see it, right? It’s not just me? I mean, when you look at this check, you see Winnie the Pooh and all his fubsy friends having what I can only hope is a high-powered business picnic on the grass, RIGHT???
WHAT am I supposed to do with these, I implore you!?
“Um, yes. I’d like to purchase the Fetco 5000 dual brewer, please. Do you take Tigger?”
Mommy. Wow. I’m a big kid now.
Very professional! Seriously?! These are the business checks Kee-vin gave you to tide you over? Maybe it’s more a reflection of his personality. I wonder if he picks out different style checks for different people whenever they open an account.
At least it wasn’t the Mad Hatter’s tea party. What would that say to some of your lien holders? “It’s my un-debt day!”
i KNOW! they gave us the same ones! i was so embarrassed, because i had to actually use the #93 check. had to. because we really had to mail a check to someone right away for the book’s cover art. at least with me, it’s a little different because we just published a blog book. for you, it’s way worse.
at least the WaMu debit cards don’t have little frolicking kittens on them, right?
It must be a bank thing because when I opened my new checking account they gave me Looney Tunes checks.
What’s up, doc?
I would be willing to bet it’s that they’re trying to “hook” people on the cutesy checks, because they come at a premium price. You know – “first hit’s free!”
(I have the plain boring parchment colored checks, but at least I’m not paying an extra $20 every go-round for them).
I don’t know. In some contexts, I’m a big fan of cute. But not with checks. I tend not to take someone seriously if they are writing a check to me and it has wubbsy kittens or Cathy or Care Bears on it.
(And this from a woman who wears an Eeyore watch).
Honest to Gawd…I would LOVE those checks.
I … I … I have no words.
(love this blog-post title, tracey. hahahaha)
First — A, I’m dying, imagining you with Pooh checks. Hahahahaha! I just assumed you already had custom checks with Bryn on them. 😉
Lisa/Sarah — Okay. It must be some kind of conspiracy of cuteness. But these are supposed to be BUSINESS checks! MB got the same ones a few months ago — which I didn’t know. He told me that last night and then he tells me, in a hushed voice, “I had to give a guy a Piglet check.”
He had a Piglet check in his batch! And he had to USE it!
ricki — I had a stuffed Eeyore when I was a kid. I love him.
“And next we’ll get a report from the IT department. Eeyore?”
“Ohhhh dearrrr. . . we had a viiiirus. . .”
You know what, though–the complicated design is a greater deterrent to fraud, according to this article my mom read.
It just makes me really mad that they’re really stingy with the registers. My check register’s like my journal.
Man, for real, Kate. I ordered four boxes of checks and you know how many registers I got? Two. Total. For the whole four boxes!
Grrrrr.
(And in the spirit of full disclosure, my personal checks antique Coca-Cola ads. And I pay extra for some wonky font for my name and address.)
Kate P: LOL at IT Eeyore.
And I agree on the check-register thing. Gotta keep my checks recorded. (And I’m kind of irked that banks have stopped sending the cancelled checks back. I know, I know, it’s cheaper and saves postage and probably protects against fraud, but somehow, for me, it was easier to rectify my checkbook each month when I had the actual checks in front of me, instead of as a line typed on the statement. )
HA! I love it!
Maybe you should give a piece of candy with every transaction?
PS. I thought the title was a reference to the Wordworth Poem “We are Seven.”
Andy — no, a.a. milne, “now we are six.” 😉
Ricki–my bank sends me images of my checks except for the ones that were electronically processed (about 1/4 to 1/3 of the checks for the time period). The patterns of my “colours” checks look super funky when they’re scanned. 🙂
Just goes to show my profound ignorance of all things Pooh.
I grew up on Shel Silverstein.
Checkbook confessions – I have to order extra registers with every checkbook order. B/c I only write checks to my stylist, my church, and my grandmother. About 6 chks a month. The debit card is out of control though.
Oh, and I have ASPCA checks. 4 different dogs.
HELLO, my AKA is AmStaff Mom. yeah. Pitiful, I know.
Yeah, ASM–I use my check card a lot!
I write checks so seldom now that I have to stop and remember how to do it – spelling out the amount and so on.
Swipe that plastic, baby!