Why Pay Cash When You Can Pay Check?

I believe there is a right time to write a check, and a not-so-right time to write a check.

The right time: At home, in front of your credit card bill.

The wrong time: At QFC, in the express cashier’s lane, in front of Dot, who is merely in line to buy toilet paper, because in her zeal to pee like a madwoman, she has run out (of said paper), and needs to run out in the middle of the day to get more (of said paper).

Back to my point.

To the lady in front of Dot who wrote a check for the grand sum of $9.56 at the lightning speed of drying paint—please don’t.

Please. Don’t.

Ever.