Theme Checks

Not theme ties – that’s a different story all together.

My dad and his wife have theme checks. They are proud Cubs fans through and through. I don’t think my dad’s wife has a problem signing her name to a Cubs check. It’s actually pretty sweet.

I don’t have theme checks. They’re cool for you it’s just not for me. I use the ones I get for free from my credit union (college student). I don’t see a point in having theme checks. I figure why must my personality be put forth in a form of monetary security that 1. less and less establishments are accepting and 2. only me, the establishment, and my bank sees. As part of my job I see a lot of the returned checks. When one closes an account or bounces a check, those checks come back to us. Which begs the question: Why are people writing checks they probably know will bounce or on a closed account? I don’t know. Anyway. Let this be a lesson to you all to not bounce checks you write to the ward or Deseret Industries or LDS Family Services or LDS Home Storage, because I will see them.

The other day I got a returned two party check signed by the man of the house. Please don’t take this as chauvinistic. The man/male/husband must be in charge of the finances of the home. The thing is. It was an Anne Geddes check. Now. I don’t know many dudes that would go out of their way to purchase these feminine checks. This must be something he fell in on. But it couldn’t have been something he fell in on because it had his wife’s name printed on the check too.

What if this naked babies in eggs and flowers and dressed up as insects check theme was a compromise between Harley Davidson and potted plants? If it were me, I’d try to say something like, “How about some nice beach scenes, honey? Maybe wooded forests? Classic rock artists? Please not Anne Geddes. Anything but Anne Geddes.”