Actually yeah, my wife balanced her checkbook. And I laugh and laugh.

HoC,
Same here.
And I laugh.
Thankfully, she makes sure all our bills get paid on time so I can't laugh too hard.

What's a checkbook?

All I have is this nifty thing called a debit card. Oh, I love being a kid in a technologically advanced generation!

So, I'm up early for a final today and I was watching SportsCenter while I ate breakfast and they were covering hockey highlights, which is one sport I don't follow. But there was a creepy guy helping with highlights and all I could think was, "Since when does the 6-Fingered Man do Hockey Analysis for ESPN?"

I mean there is this thing called the internet that you can use to pay bills. I don't actually write any checks because everything is taken out automatically (including my mortgage).

Of course, when I met my wife, she was still using AOL. So she's not the most technology-gifted person....

Can I write check?

Andie,

3 minutes ago I emailed my friend saying, "Barry Melrose with a mullet gives me night terrors". It sounds like I'm not alone in that regard.

If the NHL was covered as much as the NFL, Tony Romo would be Boner to Crosby's Mike Seaver

People still conduct financial matters on tangible materials? What a world.

Andie, my name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die...

The only person that still writes checks is that old woman in front of me in line at the grocery store. In the express lane. When all I'm buying is a case of beer. Nothing makes me more groin-grabbingly mad.

My neighbor is always balancing her checkbook. but she's insane and think that the year is 1980.

The only person that still writes checks is that old woman in front of me in line at the grocery store. In the express lane. When all I'm buying is a case of beer. Nothing makes me more groin-grabbingly mad.

More maddening, still: it's 8.58pm & state law prohibits the sale of liquor at the grocer's after 9.00 pm, & that old woman is in front of you.

Nicolae,
There is a solution to that problem - move to another state!

I feel for you.
I went to college in South Carolina - home of the "No Alcohol Sales on Sundays Blue Law".
As you can imagine, the lines at grocery stores and C-stores on Saturday at 11:45 PM were always long. Fights would nearly break out because the rule at most places was everyone inside the building at quarter til 12 was good and everyone else was shut outside.
Madness usually ensued.

The only person that still writes checks is that old woman in front of me in line at the grocery store. In the express lane. When all I'm buying is a case of beer. Nothing makes me more groin-grabbingly mad.

She's just channeling her inner Dude. Is there a Ralph's around here?

That check was made out for sixty-three cents!

That fucking old woman was in front of me at the gas station this morning, writing a check for $2.57. 2 fucking 57! I have to get to work woman!

What is this checkbook you speak of?

DL - Boner's mom writes his name in his underwear.

In the county where I went to college, they didn't have alcohol sales before 11. Very often we would drive to the next town over, just to be ready for the Bears game.

Don't worry if I write rhymes,
I write checks.

Reporter: "Write the check yet, Randy?"
Randy Moss: "When you're rich you don't write checks."
Reporter: "If you don't write checks, how do you pay these guys?"
Randy Moss: "Straight cash, homey."

Check-book?

speaking of checkbooks, let's talk holiday tipping... do i (and if so, what amount) tip my new mailman and garbage-dudes?

Also, isn't it cheque?

WTF is Melrose thinking with that horrible hair and that piece of shit goatee he's got going on? Doesn't ESPN have a dress code?

Oh, btw, I am now a college grad, so I don't finals anymore. Just lots and lots of time to booze.

Tuscalossa, Alabama - no drinking on Sundays, but some of the best nights that I had in College occurred when the bars opened up at 12:00 on Sunday night.

It's cheque in the Commonwealth.
It's check in les Etats-Unis.

I guess that means it's "cheque" in VA, PA, MA and KY, right?

Also, isn't it cheque?

In Montecarlo, perhaps.

By the way, Hey Chamomiles Davis! You're in the Express' blog section in DC today. Expect angry horse people from the District and Metro Area to come pounding down your door any minute now.

And that first gas station over the Jefferson County line was a godsend.

SM2,

No idea. Trying to figure that out myself. And I've only lived in this house since June too....

WTF is Melrose thinking with that horrible hair and that piece of shit goatee he's got going on? Doesn't ESPN have a dress code?

Obviously not.
Example 1:
http://www.deadspin.com/sports/baseball/eric-byrnes-hair-i...

Anyone think to themselves when hearing of Lamar Hunt's passing, "You don't come into the OB talkin' smack!"...? Right, wrong Lamar.

Goathair, bringing the P-Diddy like it was 2001.

Did they disable the Barbaro message board? Nothing has been posted since the 12th.

CliffX,

that better be the last time someone compares an SMU alum with a "U" alum!

Miami breaks rules by starting all-out brawls, among other things.
SMU is more sophisticated - we just pay our players insane amount of money.

RIP, Lamar Hunt.

(we are losing too many good SMU alums lately... first Aaron Spelling, now Hunt. Argh!)

Christopher Guest covers hockey for ESPN?

Also, I balance my checkbook - I still write checks too - rent, loan payments . . . stuff I come to Deadspin to not think about.

I saw that too MDT. I figured it was someone from here but didn't know which poster exactly.

I'd almost feel embarrassed running out there with a $20 like "HERE YOU GO! MERRY CHRISTMAS OR WHATEVER!"...

KidCanada: greatest. athlete quote. ever.

How about leaving a box of cookies on top of the trash? haha

But yeah, somebody has to know the answer to crap like this....

BBB: I write checks for the same things. Stupid school loans.

I also keep a checkbook because there are now checks where you can get pictures on them. I have my daughter's pic on mine. (Sometimes I remind myself how corny I am.)

HoC: yes, the mailman and garbageman would greatly appreciate any tips you give them. It's not mandatory, but it's a nice thing. I also give to my UPS guy, since he's at my house at least once a week.

metschick - The picture on your checks isn't the same at the one in your Deadspin avatar is it?

Where i went to school in Florida, our county couldn't sell beer after 2 am. So we'd leave the bar early enough to get there for the after party. If we didn't make it ontime, we would find a sober person to drive us over to the next county because beer was sold til 4 am.

Here in Connecticut, you can't buy beer after 9 and can't buy it on Sundays.

BBB: no, but it's totally the picture I should have chosen. It's just a cheesy picture of her, looking all cuddly and cute.

Metschick, where would you leave the envelope for the garbagemen? Just on top of the trash can?

Isn't this a fascinating conversation for a sports site?

Actually, this is much more fascinating than the NBA to most of us.

HoC: you'd have to give it to them in person. So you might have to wake up early one day.

Also, how many garbagemen do you have?

My parents are both postal workers (this is actually the second time I've answered a postal-related question to a Deadspinner - where is Drew these days, anyway?).

If a mail carrier has been working a specific route for a while, then tipping is common courtesy. One of the big perks of having a regular route as a mail carrier is the tips at Christmas - get the right route, and you can probably pull in a grand or more in tips. For some workers, tips are like a sizable holiday bonus (comparatively).

I don't know about garbagemen, I don't have any relatives in that industry. But I've always tipped them. It's nice to hand them a card with a tip inside, but if not, leaving it well-labelled where they can see it when they pick up your trash is probably okay too.

BowdenBowdenBowden - how MUCH for the mail dude? What's too little and what's too much?

he's going to make a small fortune in this neighborhood...

I actually leave for work way before they show up. So I don't know when exactly they show up or how many there are....

I guess I'll just leave a card next to the trash can or something.

supermike2 - If they've been good (on time, courteous), I'd say there's nothing wrong with $20. Although if you feel more generous, I'm sure they'd appreciate it.

ok thanks - i'll go with that.

Wait, what about those of us who have never seen our mailman because we live in a condo complex and we just have one of those big stacked mailboxes?