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.