From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!cbosgd!mark Newsgroups: net.misc Title: Re: Do we need to buy checks? Article-I.D.: cbosgd.2942 Posted: Fri Jan 7 13:22:15 1983 Received: Sat Jan 8 06:02:48 1983 Reply-To: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton) References: turtleva.119 I seem to remember a newspaper article a few years back where some guy sent his wife a check for alimony. He wanted to make a point, so he wrote the check on the back of his shirt (!) and literally sent her the shirt off his back. The bank honored it. I also vaguely remember that it's supposed to be legal to write a check on such obscure objects as a door. I do wonder how the bank is supposed to tell whose account to debit if all they have is your signature and the name of the payee. Many signatures are not legible, and in any case the account number ought to be helpful.