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When we re-ordered our business checks, it had a free drop-down menu to add a piece of pre-approved clip-art, and I literally could not resist

12:31 AM · Jul 11, 2019

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When the checks arrived, the chef was missing. I should have just given up, but I called them immediately. They spent 15 minutes trying to find out exactly what chef I had chosen. "Is it just a chef's hat?" No. "Is it the chef with pizza?" No. "Is the chef doing a-ok?" YES

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Cabel

@cabel

Jul 11, 2019

Finally the new, correct chef checks arrived, but as a final punishment for my impulsive dumbness, we then had to shred 1,000 chef-less checks, in small batches, or else the shredder would overheat There's an extremely valuable lesson here somewhere but I refuse to process it

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Cabel

@cabel

Jul 11, 2019

Update: a while back I told Christa this story for a potential Panic podcast (!!) she's working on. (The pitch: a podcast on the periphery of Panic. Panic Sidequests.) If you think a Panic podcast is a good idea, please like If you think it's a bad idea, please buy Transmit

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SOMEHOW, a year later, there's more. We just ran out of chef checks, so it was time for a re-order! I decided to keep the awkward tradition alive…

Cabel

@cabel

Jul 20, 2020

…the checks just arrived, and, well,

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we had good checks for years, but then we switched banks, and now they're plain and boring and i hate it

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omg 😂

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Chose the same ones! Perfecto 👌

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These may or may not be the same checks we use for

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It blows my mind that cheques (checks?) are still in use in the US.

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Same. They are still clinging on in the UK, but the only cheque use I can think in the past few years has been as-hoc payments to my kid’s school (for things like photos/trips) and a partial refund from a publisher.