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@PattyHanson that's not really the same thing. Checks have been getting rarer and rarer for decades. I haven't seen a check in almost 20 years. Something that was important for you to understand when you were younger just isn't true for your grandson. Your son probably hasn't needed to use a check for a long time either and therefore teaching his kids about them just never came up. He's not failing because he didn't deliberately sit them down and explain what a check is.
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Show threadEniko Fox7h ago

@aatch @PattyHanson i went my entire life without seeing a paper check until i moved to the US

i'm in my 40s

Show threadKim Spence-Jones 🇬🇧😷6h ago
@eniko @aatch @PattyHanson
Mischievously, I suggest that the failure is of the cheque writer, who hasn’t kept up his education enough to know how to do a bank transfer. 😜
Show threadEmbrace Civil Disobedience1h ago
@KimSJ @eniko @aatch As a grandmother and the check writer, I choose not to gift via bank transfer or PayPal or any of the other modern methods to transfer money. When a kid opens a birthday card expecting money, they don't get the same excitement from a proof of bank transfer that they do when they see cash. Turns out, checks aren't that exciting either.
Show threadTimjan1h ago

@eniko @aatch @PattyHanson

I'm of a similar age, and likewise didn't grow up in the US, but I did see checks occasionally used until I was maybe 10yo?