Real Life Adventures by Gary Wise and Lance Aldrich for February 22, 2010

Especially with a wife who insists that she’s (always) right.

I haven’t written a real check in years. When I get a bill in the mail with a return envelope for payment, I set it up as a payment account in my bank’s online BillPay service.

Then when the bank mails the paper check on my behalf, there is no payment slip with it, just an account number on the check! That’s MY small victory. Bwa-ha-ha-ha!

I like his thinking. I was with Joe but now I can pay my rent online or on the phone even. What stamps?

I’m a retired postman who feels guilty not buying stamps, but—-

I love his thinking, and I still pay some bills by mail. Why, because I don’t entirely trust the internet. yeah, I know, I belong on the Pluggers comic strip, not here! LOL!

No victory is small. Only critics are small. (Said the man criticizing the cartoon wife.)

Some of my online payments still go by check. The bank sends the check so I don’t have to risk a paper cut, and they still have to wait for the check to clear.

I still pay some of my bills “by hand” because there are two or three that charge a fee for paying online. One is as much as $11 more, just to pay it online! How ridiculous is that?

I try to use the internet but it seems that at least once a year I get a new card and then I have to give the vendor the new number and exp date.

And it isn’t my fault, last time someone out of state tried to use my card number on a fake card, one time the bank changed its system…so automation doesn’t work…plus I gots lots of chex. And the post office is losing money and chex give me a unique number to track payments.

That’s my story, I’m sticking to it.