Tales of the mentally tired

[3catsjackson]

On an errand run the other day, I remembered my credit union was nearby, and I had a check to deposit. So I got there, parked, and sat in my car to endorse said check. Then I realized my pen had disappeared

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[yelang]

That used to be my #1 source of pen-frustration since I keep a pen in my pocket nearly none of the time.

And using my bank's pen is not an option because they probably charge for that.

The solution I chose a number of years back was to just give up endorsing checks I put into the ATM. It's been working out OK so far.

[akseawolf]

Like you I always carry a pen on me. Once I somehow managed to hang onto a Doubletree pen long enough that I actually used up all of the ink. I do feel awkward and vulnerable when I realize that I have lost a pen.

[shockwave77598]

LOL! :)

[furahi]

I keep a pen in my car.

My car has this ... thing ? right next to the parking break that almost pretty much looks like it's designed to hold a pen :P So I keep one there, pretty handy :)

[shalora]

ROFL! I was trying to figure out if maybe it was Sunday and the branch was closed or what other "obvious" problem I was missing that made it so that you couldn't just go in and use their pen... ;)

But then again, since my driver's side window no longer rolls down (or properly rolls up either, which is FUN with all of the rain in Portland), I don't ever use the drive-through atm - and since I'm getting out of the car anyway, it's often just as easy to go in as it is to go to the walk-up atm*.

*depending, of course, on what time of day and what time of month it is - never do this at lunch break or closing on the first or fifteenth, for example

[3catsjackson]

Usually when I do anything at the bank, it's either when I'm out on a walk circa midnightish, or else on the way home from work, around 7-8pm. The thought of a branch being open at all is so foreign to me these days that I'd completely forgotten that it was even a possible state of existence.

Oh yeah, and one of the most recent times I'd gone into a (not-my) branch, the teller gave me a hard time about a check with an incorrect date on it -- roomie had forgotten what year it was -- so she wouldn't take it. I insincerely thanked her for her diligence and ambled out to an ATM to deposit it without issue.

[shalora]

LOL, yeah, I hear that. My boss currently pays us a draw on the first and then our "main" check on the 15th. I usually email her telling her how much I need on the first (with rent and auto/renter's insurance both due, my bills are very unbalanced, and I can't change either one of those dates), and one month recently she couldn't remember how much I'd needed and she was running payroll at 3 am (so she couldn't call and ask), so she just wrote me one check. And dated it for the 15th. That one went in the ATM for sure, since I was depositing it on the first! And yeah, they didn't fuss about it (which is good or my rent would have bounced).