I mean, I've done all this at various times. Maybe not to grab provisions, but to go get a coffee.
What is with Americans and paper cheques? I haven't seen one for at least a decade.
Neither has most of America?
Thus the joke.
Just finished chopping a bunch wood. I don't get it /s
I still have checkbooks with the 19__ prefix printed to make it easier to write the year!
JFC, I love you old tech savvy people, but is this place really the internet's retirement community?
Oh well, at least I appriciate your wisdom and prefer running into you guys instead of the fucking bots that sprout absurd propaganda.
Checks are still useful. When adulting you have to pay bills to the government, various taxes and fees. Unfortunately (yay privatization 😡) in order to accept online payments there are more than a few government agencies that have contracted with private vendors to take electronic payment. Of course this saves tax money so the government doesn’t have to expend IT resources to create a site to do this, especially in smaller municipalities, but it also generates leech middlemen who use their position to extract fees for the convenience of allowing you to pay a bill online. Fuck those businesses.
So the old process of writing a check, finding an envelope and stamp and sending it via regular post is better than giving some shitty leech company a fee for taking money from you and handing it to the agency.
Checks are still useful.
In the USA specifically. A lot of other countries have gotten rid of them (or are close to getting rid of them). Try to give someone a check in Australia and they'll just laugh at you.
extract fees for the convenience of allowing you to pay a bill online.
You just need a credit card with a higher cashback rate than the fees.
This exactly. I still write checks to my lawn care guy because Yardbook has a credit card convenience fee.
I thought I was being smart this way, then realized my bank charged me about $2/cheque when I bought a book of them, but only 1.50 for an interac transfer...
Before enlightenment, chop wood and carry water.
After enlightenment, chop wood and carry water.
I'm heating my home with wood I chopped myself and have literally ridden into town on a horse once, but I've never in my life held a check in my hands.
Nice, are you off-grid?
No, just did a few adjustments to ween myself off fossil fuels when Russia invaded Ukraine. I can power and heat my home from renewables and wood from my own property, and don't own a car, but otherwise I live a boring normal life working as a sysadmin. The horse riding is a hobby and checks went out of fashion here in Germany when I was a child.
I wouldn't mind having a horse for transportation, but got damn are they expensive (both financially and physically) to maintain.
How the hell did anyone but the rich afford horses before the car‽
They didn't
Poor people didn't have horses
A horse is a car you can never turn off. If it dies it never starts back up.
In California in the 1800s there were so many horses running around that people only bothered to take care of their saddle. Probably an exception though!
cropping is hard but my fit & steez harder
No you won't.
