[hinkley]

Knuth has the Pablo Picasso’s Dinner Bill “Problem” and so can afford to be generous.

Picasso used to dine and dash as it were by drawing a doodle on the back of his check when the bill came due, and often enough the owner would choose to frame the check instead of cash it.

For a long time most of the cost of writing checks to Knuth is the writing of the checks, not the cashing of them. He’s paying for X00 checks at a time and the energy to fill them out. And anyone who had gotten their first check from him would not cash it.

Though these days I can cash a check via a phone app and so I don’t need to forfeit the check to get the money.

[fastasucan]

>Though these days I can cash a check via a phone app and so I don’t need to forfeit the check to get the money.

Its incredible that both of these technologies is in active use at the same time.

[bombcar]

They’re not “real” checks anymore (unless you insist) because of check fraud issues. Bank of San Serif isn’t a real bank.

[hinkley]

My bank knows where I live and if I start cashing fake checks they know where to send the FBI.

Even in the old paper days banks where a little hesitant to let me come into your bank with a check from you and cash it without me also being a customer of that same bank. In theory you could do it, but sometimes if you tried you got the runaround.

[bombcar]

You can still wreak havoc with the account and routing numbers if you want to - it gets reversed when noticed which is why people still do it - sometimes it’s not noticed.