This morning, I REALLY needed to deposit a check I’d had in my purse for two plus weeks. Running late and worried about making a 9 a.m. meeting, I drove to the Bank of America on Lombard and bolted for the ATM. Enter card, enter pin, enter “deposit.” A screen comes up with three options: cash, check, or…something else, I didn’t see. “Check” was greyed out. I hit it anyway. A screen came up that said<\/p>\n
“We’re sorry, this ATM can not accept checks.”<\/p>\n
I hope with my whole heart that the ATM camera has a microphone so that it recorded me screaming, “Are you FUCKING kidding me?” at the screen. Since when do banks not accept checks?! <\/p>\n
Even if the bank had been open, which it wasn’t (and which I couldn’t go to when it was opened because I’m trying to be a good green citizen by carpooling to work with my husband, which means I’m sans automobile during “banking” hours) they would have charged me $3 just to walk in and talk to a teller. Who knows what depositing a check would cost me these days?<\/p>\n
So we got to drive to the Bank of America near my office in Lake Oswego, a good ten-minute-long detour. As I got out of the car, I said to GTB, “If this bank doesn’t accept checks, I’m burning down the building.” Fortunately for the bank, and probably for me too, the old-school ATM on Boones Ferry does still accept pieces of paper. Though I’m sure it’s just a matter of time before I have to somehow telepathically deposit money into it, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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